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	FanFaire celebrates Jake Heggie - composer
		What is certain is that Jake Heggie has a magical way of wedding words to music and it never fails to strike a special note with audiences - as it did in Denver and in San Francisco in 2000 where he premiered his first opera Dead Man Walking.
		Jake Heggie was a prolific song writer (still is!) who had set some 200 poems and literary pieces to music by the time he composed his first opera at age 39.
		Heggie makes it a point to work closely with conductors of his works.
	www.ffaire.com /Heggie/interview.htm (4528 words)

	Jake Heggie, Opera Composer [UCLA Spotlight] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Heggie's major work to date is the "Dead Man Walking" opera, which he composed for the San Francisco Opera in 2000.
		Heggie was only 11 when he took his first baby steps toward becoming a composer, At age 16, he began his first private lessons.
		Heggie cites those years as "my time to learn technique, discipline, connection … and that there is no substitute for hard work.
	www.ucla.edu /spotlight/02/alum0702_heggie.html (378 words)

	SFGC: Jake Heggie Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The music of composer Jake Heggie is being performed internationally by some of the world's most noted singers, including Rene Fleming, Sylvia McNair, Dawn Upshaw and Frederica ("Flicka") von Stade, Mr.
		Heggie's composition written specifically for Miss von Stade, one of the world's leading opera singers, and Chorissima, SFGC's 41-voice concert and touring ensemble.
		Heggie's setting is a journey through the poem using Chorissima as the not-so-silent inner voice of the poem's central character, created by Miss von Stade.
	www.sfgirlschorus.org /learn/heggie_interview.html (1014 words)

	The Ellie Caulkins Opera House - Jake Heggie on Opening Night
		Heggie considered it an honor to be commissioned for this very special occasion - the opening of an opera house after all is not a common occurrence, even in an active composer's life.
		Long-time Heggie friend and collaborator soprano Kristin Clayton (shown at right with Jake) sang in her place and with the composer himself at the piano did a superb job, very much in character, to the audience's great delight.
		Jake Heggie's friendship with Kristin Clayton dates back to the days before he gained fame as the composer of Dead Man Walking, the opera.
	fanfaire.com /Ellie/6e-heggie.htm (1788 words)

	Amazon.com: The Faces of Love ~ The Songs of Jake Heggie / Fleming, McNair, Larmore, von Stade, Forand, Cao, Clayton, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jake Heggie draws on all manners of compositional techniques--from expansive flights of polytonality to droll references to tango and other dance rhythms--but always at the service of his essentially lyrical musical personality, which can be vaguely described as updated Samuel Barber.
		Jake Heggie writes accessible music (and that to these ears is not a put down!) which is wholly melded with the poetry he choses to set singing.
		On the whole, Heggie is not yet a master of the art song; he doesn't consistently bring new, unanticipated dimensions to the texts he sets.
	www.amazon.com /Heggie-Fleming-McNair-Larmore-Clayton/dp/B00000K2EN (1359 words)

	Margaret Lattimore Stephanie Novacek Mary Phillips Ricky Ian Gordon Jake Heggie Eugenia Zukerman
		Heggie’s gentle setting makes shrewd use of silence as the stars emerge one by one, like “opals” (pause) “emeralds” (pause) “rubies” (pause) “sapphires.” The final question, “Is it not something that actually exists?” ends on a dissonant chord that drives the question urgently home.
		As so many works of art do, this one sprang from a question: Heggie simply asked Sister Helen to define her own meaning of “spirituality.” Her answer was powerfully direct: she had learned simply to discard the things that she “must” have and plumb the deepest desire of her heart.
		Heggie asked Sister Helen to write down her thoughts on how she reached that private place, and once she did, he set them to music.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_5571_pn.html?selecteddate=03142006 (1684 words)

	Jake Heggie on SONY BMG Masterworks
		Jake Heggie is the composer of the operas Dead Man Walking (libretto by Terrence McNally), The End of the Affair (libretto by Heather McDonald, Leonard Foglia and Jake Heggie), and the musical scene At the Statue of Venus (libretto by Terrence McNally).
		Heggie’s operas have been performed at the San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, State Opera of South Australia, Cincinnati Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Opera Pacific, Calgary Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Madison Opera, Baltimore Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre.
		Jake Heggie was born in West Palm Beach, FL, in 1961.
	www.sonybmgmasterworks.com /artists/jakeheggie/index.html (482 words)

	And Then One Night, The Making of Dead Man Walking: Creative Process: The Players: Jake Heggie: Transcript
		And Then One Night, The Making of Dead Man Walking: Creative Process: The Players: Jake Heggie: Transcript
		JAKE HEGGIE: I did PR and writing and marketing for arts organizations, and that's actually what I first did for the San Francisco Opera.
		That's how I got to know Lotfi Mansouri and also all of these amazing singers who are now championing my work and many of whom are in Dead Man Walking.
	www.pbs.org /kqed/onenight/creativeprocess/players/heggietran.html (1311 words)

	Jake Heggie Calendar of Events
		Jake performs in San Francisco Performances 28th Season Gala Concert with soprano Heidi Grant Murphy and Quartetto Gelato at Yerba Buena Theater, San Francisco, CA.
		Jake accompanies mezzo Susan Graham and soprano Kristin Clayton for a gala program to celebrate the reopening of the historic Asolo Theatre in Sarasota, FL.
		Jake accompanies soprano Kristin Clayton, mezzo-sopranos Frederica von Stade and Catherine Cook, baritone Curt Branom, and children from the Waldorf School of the Peninsula in a benefit concert for Waldorf.
	www.jakeheggie.com /n_calendar.htm (3703 words)

	classical music - andante - jake heggie
		Jake Heggie has written numerous art songs, song cycles and instrumental works, but he is best known for his opera Dead Man Walking.
		Ben Finane: There is a palpable taste of gospel music in Dead Man Walking, reminiscent of recordings I've heard of folk songs and spirituals from Texas prisons and state penitentiaries.
		Jake Heggie: Well I haven't heard of those recordings.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16656 (1887 words)

	Stereophile: Dead Man Walking: Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally
		In March 1998, Mansouri announced what many observers considered a reckless gamble: The SFO had tapped Jake Heggie, an unknown composer, and Terrence McNally, a playwright who had never written a libretto, to produce a major opera based on the award-winning book Dead Man Walking, by Sister Helen Prejean, for the 2000 season.
		Heggie was then known primarily for having composed eminently singable music, most significantly for Frederica von Stade, for whom he had written three large-scale song cycles, two major works for soloist and chorus, and orchestral songs.
		Patrick Summers, principal guest conductor for the SFO, agreed to conduct—when Heggie had worked in the opera's public relations department, he had given some of his songs to Summers, who was immediately supportive.
	stereophile.com /features/680 (898 words)

	Stereophile: Dead Man Walking: Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally
		The balance between orchestral accompaniment and singing is well-judged, and the singers can all be heard clearly, even in the massed choruses when different groups sing opposing lyrics.
		In just a few measures Heggie covers a broad swath of emotion, from wistful promise to abject terror, with phenomenal precision.
		His bold rhythms and surging melodies are beguilingly tonal for the most part, but when needed, the music takes on a menacing edginess.
	www.stereophile.com /features/680/index2.html (828 words)

	DePauw University News :: Composer Jake Heggie Featured in Annual ...
		Born in Florida and raised in Ohio, Jake Heggie studied composition with Ernst Bacon in the San Francisco Bay Area before attending college at UCLA, where he studied piano with the late Johana Harris and composition with Paul DesMarais, Roger Bourland, Paul Reale, and the late David Raksin.
		Heggie’s lyric yet complex works have produced comparisons with Samuel Barber and are evident on the acclaimed 1999 RCA Red Seal release The Faces of Love, on which the composer provides piano accompaniment.
		Heggie is perhaps best known for his opera Dead Man Walking, which is based on the prize-winning book by Sister Helen Prejean, who visited DePauw in 1997 as an Ubben lecturer.
	www.depauw.edu /news/index.asp?id=16915 (628 words)

	Jake Heggie - USOperaWeb Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Few new American operas have burst on the scene as dramatically as did Dead Man Walking, Jake Heggie's first work for the theater (with a libretto by Terrence McNally) which premiered at San Francisco Opera in October, 2000.
		It was San Francisco General Director Lotfi Mansouri's idea to bring together Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally to create an opera.
		Nothing came of McNally and Heggie's first meeting except for the agreement to 'stay in touch.' At their second meeting, several months later, McNally gave Heggie a list of ten possible subjects for an opera, including his favorite, Sister Helen Prejean's book, Dead Man Walking.
	www.usoperaweb.com /2001/july/heggie.html (5459 words)

	The Grandin Festival \| Jake Heggie \| Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jake Heggie is the composer of the operas Dead Man Walking (libretto by Terrence McNally), The End of the Affair (libretto by Heather McDonald, Leonard Foglia and Jake Heggie), and the musical scene At the Statue of Venus (libretto by Terrence McNally).
		Heggie has been resident composer for the San Francisco Opera, EOS Orchestra, Vail Valley Music Festival, and the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, and has given lectures and master classes for singers and composers at universities and conservatories that include the Cincinnati Conservatory, NYU, Bucknell University, DePauw University, and UCLA, to name a few.
		As a pianist, Heggie regularly accompanies Frederica von Stade in recital, and has also performed with sopranos Anna Netrebko, Dawn Upshaw and Kristin Clayton; mezzos Joyce DiDonato, Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson, Jennifer Larmore, and Zheng Cao; tenor Paul Groves; countertenor Brian Asawa; and baritones Thomas Hampson and Bo Skovhus.
	www.ccm.uc.edu /Grandin/featured/jake_heggie.html (355 words)

	Faces of Love - The Songs of Jake Heggie Classical
		THE FACES OF LOVE testifies to Heggie's nimble sensitivity in setting words to music, as he draws from a wide range of poetry, while always seeming to find the most unforced and compelling means to make these lyrics sing.
		As the San Francisco Opera's first CHASE Composer-in-Residence, Heggie has had the benefit of forming professional relationships with some of the world's greatest singers, a number of whom appear on this disk in songs written expressly for them.
		This intimate knowledge of individual voices and personalities has enabled Heggie to write unusually idiomatic vocal music for such distinctive singers as Fleming, Carol Vaness, Frederica von Stade, and Jennifer Larmore--the four most thoughtful collaborators on this disk.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1132034/a/Faces+of+Love+%2D+The+Songs+of+Jake+Heggie.htm (760 words)

	Cal Performances \| Special Events \| Theater in Song: Music by Jake Heggie and Ricky Ian Gordon
		Acclaimed American composers Jake Heggie and Ricky Ian Gordon write songs and theater pieces that are performed extensively and recorded by some of the greatest singers in the world.
		In a preview of his highly anticipated premiere with Cal Performances, composer Jake Heggie talks about his artistic process as a composer and about two works in particular — At the Statue of Venus and Here and Gone.
		Composers Jake Heggie (Dead Man Walking, The End of the Affair) and Ricky Ian Gordon (Grapes of Wrath) are friends and admirers of each other's work.
	www.calperfs.berkeley.edu /presents/season/2006/special_events/tis.php (422 words)

	Heggie Sheet Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jake Heggie: The Faces Of Love Book 1
		Jake Heggie: The Faces Of Love Book 2
		Jake Heggie: The Faces Of Love Book 3
	www.charlespiano.com /sheet_music/artist/Heggie, (140 words)

	Margaret Lattimore Stephanie Novacek Mary Phillips Ricky Ian Gordon Jake Heggie Eugenia Zukerman
		Future engagements include performances of Mahler’s Leider eines fahren gesellen at the Windham Chamber Music Festival, Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the London Symphony Chorus, Handel’s Messiah with the Pittsburgh Symphony Chorus, and recitals at the Songfest festival in Malibu, California, with composers John Harbison and Jake Heggie.
		In the 2001–2002 season, Mary Phillips performed Jake Heggie’s cycle The Starry Night at the Ravinia Festival with the composer accompanying.
		Jake Heggie has composed the operas Dead Man Walking with libretto by Terrence McNally and The End of the Affair with libretto by Heather McDonald, the musical scene At the Statue of Venus with libretto by Mr.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_5571_ma.html?selecteddate=03142006 (1466 words)

	usOperaweb - Jake Heggie Interview Spring 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Few recent operas have connected with audiences as immediately and deeply as Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking.
		Heggie has written a new work for Houston Grand Opera (HGO), The End of the Affair, based on the 1951 Graham Greene novel.
		Heggie in his flat above San Francisco’s Castro district, where he spoke about the genesis of the new opera, among other things.
	www.usoperaweb.com /2004/spring/heggie.htm (5620 words)

	Sound Investment- Oakland East Bay Symphony
		June 2002: Join Jake Heggie in a discussion about composition and ideas shaping his new concerto.
		Jake Heggie discusses and performs excerpts from the work in progress.
		November 15, 2002: World Premiere performance of Jake Heggie's Cello Concerto for Emil Miland and OEBS at the Paramount Theatre, with Sound Investment members invited to a post-concert reception with Morgan, Heggie, Miland and company.
	www.oebs.org /page/sound.htm (272 words)

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