EP205 Spring has sprung! The joy of music making with Jake Heggie

In Unison

This week we catch up with prolific opera, theater, orchestral, and choral composer (and dear friend of IOCSF), Jake Heggie, about his influences, his latest works, and his excitement about the coming of spring!

Episode Transcript

Music Excerpts

• People, by Barbra Streisand, from the album People.
• Mass in B Minor, MWV 232: Kyrie: Kyrie eleison (Chorus) performed by Bach Collegium Japan
• The Radio Hour: Part I: A Really Bad Day, by Jake Heggie, libretto by Gene Scheer, performed by John Alexander Singers and members of Pacific Symphony
• Peter Grimes, Op.33 / Act 3: Who Holds Himself Apart, by Benjamin Britten; performed by Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
• It's A Wonderful Life: George and Mary’s Wedding Day, by Jake Heggie, libretto by Gene Scheer; performed by Houston Grand Opera
• Stop this day and night with me, by Jake Heggie, performed by the University of Memphis Chamber Choir
• Songs for Murdered Sisters: No. 7, Rage, by Jake Heggie, text by Margaret Atwood, sung by Joshua Hopkins
• Moby-Dick; by Jake Heggie, libretto by Gene Scheer, a medley preview performed by members of the San Francisco Opera
• Say Her Name, by Abby Dobson, sung by Abby Dobson and the Resistance Revival Chorus
• Faith Disquiet III: If You Were Coming in the Fall, by Jake Heggie, performed by IOCSF
• Illumina faciem tuam, by Carlos Gesualdo, performed by Oxford Camerata, and recorded in the Chapel of the Hertford College, Oxford
• Music excerpt underlay: The Four Seasons: Spring by Antonio Vivaldi, performed by La Serenissima
• Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope: No 1: Ashes by Jake Heggie, performed by Daniel Hope, violin; and Dawn Harms, soprano

Theme Song: Mr. Puffy by Avi Bortnik, arr. by Paul Kim. Performed by Dynamic