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Jake Heggie (born March 31, 1961) is an American composer of opera, vocal, orchestral, and chamber music. He is best known for his operas and art songs as well as for his collaborations with internationally renowned performers and writers. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply....read more

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Top Tracks of Jake Heggie

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 2 - The drive to Angola State Prison: This journey (Sister Helen)

Heggie: Overture

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: "Vesuvio, il mio unico amico" (Arden, Winnie, Tatyana, Wendell)

It's a Wonderful Life, Act II: Auld Lang Syne (Live)

Moby-Dick, Act I, Scene 7: "Starbuck's Soliloquy"

Camille Claudel: Into the Fire: No. 1. Prelude: Awakening - Rodin

At the Statue of Venus: A Lucky Child

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: Rosa's Prayer (Arden, Tatyana, Wendell, Anthony, Tommy, Chorus)

Camille Claudel, Into the Fire: No. 1, Prelude. Awakening - Rodin

The Work at Hand (Version for Mezzo-Soprano, Cello & Piano): No. 3, The Slow Seconds

Of Gods and Cats: No. 1, In the Beginning

Dead Man Walking: Prelude

The Radio Hour: Part III: A New Day

Newer Every Day (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra): No. 1, Silence

Paper Wings: A Route to the Sky

Heggie: Camille Claudel - Into the Fire: III. Shakuntala (Live)

Natural Selection: Animal Passion

Eve-Song: Snake

Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia: Ophelia's Song

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 1 - Hope House: He will gather us around (Sister Helen, Children, Sister Rose)

Some Times of Day: The Minuet

I Shall Not Live in Vain

Natural Selection: II. Animal Passion

Paper Wings: Paper Wings

Of Gods and Cats: In the Beginning

Camille Claudel: Into the Fire: No. 5. The Gossips

Some Times of Day: Simple

Paper Wings: Bedtime Story

Here and Gone: In the Morning

Facing Forward / Looking Back: Facing Forward

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 1 - Hope House: Heavens! Look at the time (Sister Rose, First mother, Sister Lillianne, Sister Catherine, Jimmy Charlton, Mrs Charlton, Sister Helen)

To Say Before Going to Sleep: To Say Before Going to Sleep

My True Love Hath My Heart

Heggie: Dead Man Walking, Act 1: "This journey. This journey to Christ" (Sister Helen) [Live]

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 2 - The drive to Angola State Prison: "Be careful," people have always told me (Sister Helen, Motor cop)

Natural Selection: V. Joy Alone (Connection)

Paper Wings: Mitten Smitten

Facing Forward / Looking Back: Grounded

Facing Forward / Looking Back: Motherwit

Paper Wings: No. 4. A Route to the Sky

Here and Gone: Stars

Songs to the Moon: The Haughty Snail King

Heggie: Camille Claudel - Into the Fire: Prelude - Awakening (Live)

Heggie: Dead Man Walking, Act 2: The Execution - "He will gather us around, all around" (Sister Helen)

Some Times of Day: The Best Time of the Day

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 3 - Outside of Angola State Penitentiary: Sister Helen? I've been waiting for you (Father Grenville, Sister Helen, Inmates)

Songs to the Moon: Once More - To Gloriana

Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia: Women Have Loved Before

Of Gods and Cats: Once Upon a Universe

The Faces of Love: I shall not live in vain

The Faces of Love: I shall not live in vain

Eve-Song: Listen

Heggie: Camille Claudel - Into the Fire: I. Rodin (Live)

The Breaking Waves: No. 3, Music

Here and Gone: The Factory Window Song

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 8 - The parking lot outside the courthouse: You don't know what it's like to bear a child (Jade Boucher, Kitty Hart, Sister Helen, Howard Boucher, Owen Hart, Joseph's mother)

Heggie: Dead Man Walking: Prelude (Live)

Camille Claudel: Into the Fire: No. 2. La valse

Here and Gone: In Praise of Songs That Die

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 4 - Father Grenville's office: Some of them didn't look so bad (Sister Helen, Father Grenville)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 5 - The walk through Death Row: Woman on the tier! (Guards, Inmates, Warden, Sister Helen)

Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia: Now in a Silver Casket

Here and Gone: The Farms of Home

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 6 - The Death Row visiting room: Are you frightened? (Sister Helen, Joseph)

Camille Claudel: Into the Fire: No. 3. Shakuntala

The Work at Hand (Version for Voice, Piano & Cello): No. 1, Original Origami

Facing Forward / Looking Back: Mother in the Mirror

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 4 - Father Grenville's office: I don't like that man (Sister Helen, Warden)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 6 - The Death Row visiting room: You ever been with a man? (Joseph, Sister Helen)

It's a Wonderful Life: Prelude (Live)

Final Monologue from Master Class: Final Monologue from Master Class

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 7 - The Pardon Board hearing: The defendant's mother, Mrs Patrick De Rocher (Paralegal, Older brother, Joseph's mother)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 8 - The parking lot outside the courthouse: It's a good sign when they take so long to decide (Sister Rose, Sister Helen, Owen Hart, Jade Boucher, Kitty Hart, Howard Boucher)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 6 - The Death Row visiting room: Five more minutes, De Rocher (First guard, Joseph, Sister Helen)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 8 - The parking lot outside the courthouse: I'm sorry. So sorry (Sister Helen, Owen Hart, Jade Boucher, Howard Boucher, Kitty Hart, Paralegal, Sister Rose)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 6 - The Death Row visiting room: Thank you (Sister Helen, Inmates, Warden, Joseph)

Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia: Spring

Camille Claudel: Into the Fire: No. 4. La petite chatelaine

Here and Gone: Because I Liked You Better

As well as Jesus?

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 9 - The Death Row visiting room: Guess your nun ain't comin' back, De Rocher (First guard, Sister Helen, Joseph)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 7 - The Pardon Board hearing: Joe, my Joe, is not a bad boy (Joseph's mother, Owen Hart)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: The Wedding Procession from Rosa Dolorosa (Arden, Tatyana, Eric, Winnie, Anthony, Wendell, Roane, Chorus)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 10 - The waiting room: What happened? (Sister Helen, Warden, Sisters, Children, Joseph, Kitty and Owen Hart, Jade and Howard Boucher, Joseph's mother, Inmates, Motor cop, Father Grenville)

Camille Claudel: Into the Fire: No. 6. L'age mur

Heggie: Camille Claudel - Into the Fire: V. The Gossips (Live)

Songs to the Moon: Euclid

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 7 - The Confession: We'd been drinkin' and smokin' weed at the road house (Joseph, Sister Helen)

Iconic Legacies (First Ladies at the Smithsonian): No. 1, Eleanor Roosevelt [Marian Anderson's Mink Coat]

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 9 - The Death Row visiting room: I believe in the here and now (Joseph, Sister Helen)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 9 - The Death Row visiting room: The Bible says "the truth will set you free." (Sister Helen, Joseph, Warden) - Scene 10 - The waiting room: Excuse me. Do you have any change? (Sister Helen, First guard)

Songs to the Moon: What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said

Natural Selection: Alas! Alack!

Here and Gone: The Half-Moon Westers Low

Natural Selection: Joy Alone (Connection)

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 1 - Joseph's cell: The girl. I remember the girl (Joseph)

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 2 - Sister Helen's bedroom: Oh! ... Now and at the hour of our death. Amen (Sister Helen, Sister Rose)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 10 - The waiting room: He will gather us around (Children, Sister Rose, Inmates, Sister Helen, Joseph, Motor cop, Joseph's mother, Kitty and Owen Hart, Jade and Howard Boucher, Father Grenville)

Dead Man Walking, Act I: Scene 7 - The Pardon Board hearing: What you all say my Joe did is so terrible (Joseph's mother)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: Rehearsal, Part One (Tatyana, Eric, Winnie, Anthony, Wendell, Roane)

If I Were You: I Don't Have to Do a Thing

Of Gods and Cats: No. 2, Once Upon a Universe

Heggie: Camille Claudel - Into the Fire: II. La Valse (Live)

The Work at Hand (Version for Voice, Piano & Cello): No. 3, The Slow Seconds

Heggie: Camille Claudel - Into the Fire: IV. La petite châtelaine (Live)

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 1 - Joseph's cell: Everybody hear that? (Joseph, Warden, Inmates)

Iconic Legacies (First Ladies at the Smithsonian): No. 4, Barbara Bush [The Muppets]

Iconic Legacies (First Ladies at the Smithsonian): No. 3, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis [White House Christmas Card, 1963]

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 8 - The Execution: Dead Man Walking! (Warden, Father Grenville, Joseph, Sister Helen, Kitty and Owen Hart, Jade and Howard Boucher, Guards, Sisters and Mothers of the prayer vigil outside the prison, Inmates)

Force of Nature: Now I See You

Heggie: Dead Man Walking, Act 1: "Some of them didn't look so bad" (Sister Helen, Father Grenville) [Live]

Encountertenor: Countertenor's Conundrum

Songs for Murdered Sisters (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 5, Bird Soul

Iconic Legacies (First Ladies at the Smithsonian): No. 2, Mary Todd Lincoln [Abraham Lincoln's Hat]

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 7 - The Confession: How much longer? How much more time? (Joseph, Sister Helen, Inmates)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: Break (Roane, Chorus)

Friendly Persuasions (Songs in Homage to Poulenc): No. 1. Wanda Landowska

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 2 - Sister Helen's bedroom: God's love and forgiveness (Sister Rose, Sister Helen)

A Question of Light: No. 1. The Light of Coincidences (Magritte)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: "The writing's on the wall" (Roane, Eric)

Newer Every Day (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra): No. 4, That I Did Always Love

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: "Talk to me about Roane, Winnie" (Eric, Winnie, Roane)

Camille Claudel: Into the Fire: No. 7. Epilogue: Jessie Lipscomb Visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929

Statuesque: No. 5, Winged Victory We're Through

Heggie: Camille Claudel - Into the Fire: VI. L'age mûr (Live)

Natural Selection: I. Creation

It makes no difference abroad

Eve-Song: II. Even

Heggie: Dead Man Walking, Act 1: "He will gather us around" (Sister Helen, Children, Sister Rose) [Live]

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 4 - The visiting room: The new Ford Mustangs are so cool (Joseph's brothers, Joseph, Joseph's mother, Sister Helen)

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 3 - Joseph's cell. August 4 in the evening: Well? Well? (Inmates) - What time is it? (Joseph, Sister Helen)

Friendly Persuasions (Songs in Homage to Poulenc): No. 4. Paul Eluard

Eve-Song: IV. Listen

Encountertenor: The trouble with trebles in trousers...

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: "What are the Grizzlies' chances?" (Wendell, Anthony, Winnie)

Statuesque: No. 1, Henry Moore Reclining Figure in Elmwood

Songs for Murdered Sisters (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 1, Empty Chair - No. 2, Enchantment

Pieces of 9/11: No. 1. Prelude: Lauren

Before the Storm: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

Heggie: Dead Man Walking, Act 3: "You've been so good to him and all of us...Who will walk with me?" (Sister Helen)

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 3 - Joseph's cell. August 4 in the evening: I'm scared, OK? (Joseph, Sister Helen, First guard)

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 7 - The Confession: I killed her (Joseph, Sister Helen, Warden, Father Grenville)

Eve-Song: VIII. The Farm

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 4 - The visiting room: All those people out there (Joseph's mother, Sister Helen, First guard, Joseph, Second guard, Younger brother, Warden)

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 6 - Joseph's holding cell: You're a regular illustrated man, De Rocher (First guard, Second guard, Inmates)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: "I want to be America's soprano" (Tatyana, Anthony, Wendell, Eric, Winnie)

Three Decembers: Act I: Prelude

Heggie: Dead Man Walking, Act 1: "Woman on the tier!" (Guards, Inmates, Warden, Sister Helen) [Live]

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: Duet Scene (Arden, Winnie)

A Question of Light: No. 2. Eccentric Flint (Ancient Maya)

A Question of Light: No. 2. Eccentric Flint (Ancient Maya)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: Ensemble and Cabaletta (Arden, Tatyana, Eric, Winnie, Anthony, Wendell, Roane, Chorus)

Intonations (Songs from the Violins of Hope): No. 1, Ashes [Live]

It's a Wonderful Life, Act I: Clara in the Heavens (Live)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "Buona sera, Rosa" (Arden, Bazzetti)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: Rehearsal, Part Two (Roane, Wendell, Anthony, Eric, Tatyana, Arden, Tommy, Chorus)

The Work at Hand (Version for Mezzo-Soprano, Cello & Piano): No. 2, Warrior 1

Three Decembers: Act I: Aria - Charlie

Rise and Fall: No. 2. Incantation Bowl

Rise and Fall: No. 1. Water Stone (Noguchi)

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 4 - The visiting room: Don't say a word (Joseph's mother, Joseph, Sister Helen)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: Finale (Orchestra)

Friendly Persuasions (Songs in Homage to Poulenc): No. 3. Raymonde Linossier

Friendly Persuasions (Songs in Homage to Poulenc): No. 2. Pierre Bernac

Rise and Fall: No. 3. Angels' Wing

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: "Oh, Mrs. F" (Arden, Winnie)

Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia: III. Not in a Silver Casket

The Faces of Love: If you were coming in the Fall

The Work at Hand (Version for Voice, Piano & Cello): No. 2, Warrior 1

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: "Sorry Tommy's late" (Sid, Arden, Tommy, Winnie, Roane)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: "It's a disaster" (Eric, Winnie, Wendell, Arden, Tatyana, Anthony, Chorus)

Heggie: Dead Man Walking, Prologue: Song on Radio. "Watching you" - A Kiss in the Dark (Live)

Encore: Sophie's Song

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: "I get scared, too, Tommy" (Arden, Tommy, Eric)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "Arden, you have seen the future" (Arden, Winnie, Eric, Roane, Wendell, Anthony)

A Question of Light: No. 3. Yellow Roses in a Vase (Caillebotte)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 1: The Fountain Dance (Chorus)

It's a Wonderful Life, Act I: The High School Dance (Live)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "Arden! You're not dressed for the mad scene!" (Roane, Arden)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: Rosa Dolorosa, Act One (Arden, Wendell, Anthony, Tatyana, Tommy, Chorus)

Pieces of 9/11: IV. That Moment On

Heggie: Camille Claudel - Into the Fire: VII. Epilogue - Jessie Lipscomb visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929 (Live)

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 5 - Outside of the Death House: Good evening (Sister Helen, Howard and Jade Boucher, Kitty and Owen Hart, Second guard)

Eve-Song: I. My Name

If I Were You: I Don't Have to Do a Thing (Ice Cube Aria) [Arr. for Voice & Piano]

Fury of Light: I. Fast

Fury of Light: III. Meditation

Eve-Song: III. Good

How Well I Knew the Light: No. 2, The Sun Kept Setting

Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia: IV. Spring

These Strangers: No. 1, These Strangers, in a Foreign World

The Faces of Love: I. I Shall Not Live In Vain

John Adam's Prayer

Intonations (Songs from the Violins of Hope): No. 2, Exile [Live]

Pieces of 9/11: No. 3. Phone Calls

Pieces of 9/11: No. 5. Beyond

Pieces of 9/11: No. 2. Lessons

Pieces of 9/11: No. 4. That Moment On

Pieces of 9/11: No. 6. An Open Book

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "The Starry-Spangled Banner" (Tatyana, Chorus)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "You'll never be her" (Arden)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: Prelude (Chorus)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: In the Wings (Anthony, Wendell)

Pieces of 9/11: No. 4. That Moment On

Statuesque: No. 3, Hatshepsut the Divine Potter

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: Quartet (Arden, Tatyana, Winnie, Roane)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "I don't care how good 'what' was" (Roane, Arden, Eric, Anthony, Wendell)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: Sid and Arden (Arden, Sid, Roane)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "I thought that went extremely well" (Anthony, Arden, Wendell, Tommy, Eric, Tatyana)

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

Statuesque: No. 4, Alberto Giacometti Standing Woman, 1948

Pieces of 9/11: No. 6. An Open Book

If you were coming in the Fall

Natural Selection: III. Alas! Alack!

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 4 - The visiting room: Who will walk with me? (Sister Helen)

Dead Man Walking, Act II: Scene 5 - Outside of the Death House: I've said some harsh things (Owen Hart, Sister Helen)

The Work at Hand (Version for Mezzo-Soprano, Cello & Piano): No. 1, Original Origami

Fury of Light: IV. Very Fast

Farewell, Auschwitz: VI. Miss Ziutka

Fury of Light: II. Elegy

Natural Selection: IV. Indian Summer - Blue

Eve-Song: V. Snake

Three Decembers: Act I: Song - Maddy: "About to Break"

Three Decembers: Act I: Scene 1: A Christmas Letter

The Faces of Love: V. At Last, To Be Identified!

A Question of Light: No. 4. Place de la Concorde (Mondrian)

Heggie: Dead Man Walking, Act 1: "The defendant's mother" (A Paralegal, Older brother, Joseph's mother) [Live]

Newer Every Day: III. Fame

How Well I Knew the Light: No. 1, Ample Make This Bed

These Strangers: No. 4, To a Stranger

Statuesque: No. 2, Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman, 1932

A Question of Light: No. 5. Watch (Murphy)

Heggie: Dead Man Walking, Act 1: "He will gather us around" (Sister Helen, Sister Rose, Sister Lillianne, Sister Catherine, Children, Jimmy, First Mother, Mrs Charlton) [Live]

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: Rosa's Mad Scene (Arden, Tatyana, Wendell, Anthony, Chorus)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "Thank yu for your wonderful support" (Winnie, Arden)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: Curtain Calls (Arden, Winnie)

A Question of Light: No. 5. El hombre (Tamayo)

It's a Wonderful Life, Act I: George Bailey's Childhood (Live)

Songs to the Moon I: V. The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: Center Stage (Arden, Sid, Tommy)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "Triumph for American Opera!" (Eric, Winnie, Roane, Arden, Anthony, Wendell, Tatyana)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "Look for me, I'm there" (Arden, Bazzetti)

Heggie: Great Scott, Act 2: "All that you leave behind" (Arden, Bazzetti)

Farewell, Auschwitz: III. Diamonds

Songs for Murdered Sisters (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 4, Dream

Intonations (Songs from the Violins of Hope): No. 5, Feivel [Live]

Intonations (Songs from the Violins of Hope): No. 3, Concert [Live]

Farewell, Auschwitz: II. Soldiers

Farewell, Auschwitz: V. Irenka

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