Myths and Hymns premiered in a concert staging directed by Tina Landau produced by the New Lyric Festival in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1996. It was revised and retitled Saturn Returns: A Concert, directed by Tina Landau and produced by the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in March 1998.

The booklet contains two pages of introduction by Alfred Uhry, one page by Adam Guettel. Note that the cover artwork is really wonderful (at least for me). For each song where it's necessary, there's a little synopsis sentence.

This recording has something magic. Between a John Adams and a sad Stephen Sondheim. I don't love it all, but mostly. I really don't like songs like Come To Jesus. It's not the time to talk about Jesus here. On the other hand, things like Pegasus or Icarus are so wonderful that I excuse this christian intromission. Performers are in my humble opinion, somewhere near "la crème de la crème". Lyrics are between very clever to simply dumb ("Come to Jesus"). A very good recording, though not really a musical, but a set of songs with no real link between them out of the mythological context (not for "Come to Jesus" though).