List of compositions by Jake Heggie

Opera

1. Another Sunrise
2. Farewell, Auschwitz
3. For a Look or a Touch

Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director). Each part received its premiere individually by Music of Remembrance.

1. Portrait intérieure
2. La porteuse de fleurs
3. Epilogue: C’est pour t’avoir vue

Unpublished.

1. Countertenor’s Conundrum
2. The trouble with trebles in trousers … (Pitch can be a bitch!)
3. A Gift to Share

Commissioned by Brian Asawa.

1. Barb'ry Allen
2. He's Gone Away
3. The Leather-Winged Bat

Dedicated to Frederica von Stade.

1. The Night is Freezing Fast (A.E. Housman)
2. The Car Ride to Christmas (von Stade)
3. Good King Merrily on High (traditional)
4. I wonder as I wander (Niles)
5. The Road to Bethlehem (Dickinson)
6. And then the Setting Sun (von Stade)
7. Christmas Time of Year (Heggie)

Commissioned by the New Century Chamber Orchestra.

1. A learning experience over coffee…
2. You enter my thoughts
3. To speak of love
4. Unspoken thoughts at bedtime

Commissioned by Earle Patriarco.

1. Creation
2. Animal Passion
3. Alas! Alack!
4. Indian Summer – Blue
5. Connection

Music and poetry composed for Nicolle Foland.

1. Bedtime Story
2. Paper Wings
3. Mitten Smitten
4. A Route to the Sky

Commissioned by Frederica von Stade and dedicated to her daughter, Lisa Elkus. Orchestration commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra in 2000.

1. Before the Storm (Walker)
2. It sounded as if the streets were running (Dickinson)
3. What lips my lips have kissed (Millay)
4. The Thin Edge (Parker)

Dedicated to Zheng Cao. Three songs based on works written in 1986, revised in 1998.

1. Prologue: Once More – To Gloriana
2. Euclid
3. The Haughty Snail-King
4. What the Rattlesnake Said
5. The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky (What the little girl said)
6. What the Scarecrow Said
7. What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said
8. Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children)

Commissioned for Frederica von Stade by MUSIC ACCORD.

1. The Spring is Arisen; Ophelia’s Song (Heggie)
2. Women have loved before as I love now (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
3. Not in a silver casket cool with pearls (Millay)
4. Spring (Millay)

Composed for Peggy Kriha-Dye.

1. In the beginning …
2. Once upon a universe

Commissioned by Vija Nadai.

1. Ample Make This Bed
2. The Sun Kept Setting

1. My name
2. Even
3. Good
4. Listen
5. Snake
6. Woe to Man
7. The Wound
8. The Farm

Commissioned by James Schwabacher.

1. The Call; More is required; Love
2. I catch on fire
3. The deepest desire
4. Primary colors

Commissioned by Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. Orchestration commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2005.

1. The Minuet
2. Simple
3. The Best Time of the Day

Commissioned by the Harmida Trio.

Prologue: Winter Roses (Baldridge)

I. Two Birds

1. The Wren (Baldridge)

2. The Robin (Dickinson)

II. Three Shades (in memoriam C.v.S.)

3. A Hero (von Stade)

4. Sleeping (Carver)

5. To My Dad (von Stade)

III. Looking West

6. Sweet Light (Carver)

Epilogue: Late Fragment (Carver)

Commissioned by Richard and Luci Janssen for Camerata Pacifica.

1. Henry Moore: Reclining Figure of Elmwood
2. Pablo Picasso: Head of a Woman, 1932
3. Hapshetsut: The Divine Potter
4. Alberto Giacommetti: Standing Woman #2
5. Winged Victory: We’re Through

Commissioned by University of Kansas at Lawrence for mezzo-soprano Joyce Castle.

1. The Farms of Home (Housman)
2. In Praise of Songs That Die (Lindsay)
3. Stars (Housman)
4. The Factory Window Song (Lindsay)
5. In the Morning (Housman)
6. Because I Liked You Better (Housman)
7. The Half-Moon Westers Low (Housman)

Commissioned by Welz Kaufman and the Ravinia Festival for the Stearns Institute for Young Artists.

1. Wanda Landowska
2. Pierre Bernac
3. Raymonde Linossier
4. Paul Eluard

Based on four transformative friendships and meetings in Francis Poulenc’s life.

1. Prelude; Lauren
2. Lessons
3. Phone Calls
4. That Moment On
5. Beyond
6. An Open Book

Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera.

1. The Light of Coincidences (Magritte)
2. Eccentric Flint (Maya c. AD 600–900)
3. Yellow Flowers in a Vase (Caillebotte)
4. Place de la Concorde (Mondrian)
5. El Hombre (Tamayo)
6. Watch (Murphy)

Commissioned by Dallas Opera in association with the Dallas Museum of Art for baritone Nathan Gunn.

1. Prologue: For Maria
2. Soldiers
3. Diamonds
4. In the Cards
5. Irenka
6. Miss Ziutka
7. The Sun and the Skylark
8. Farewell, Auschwitz

Commissioned by Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, Artistic Director).

1. Rodin
2. La Valse
3. Shakuntala
4. La petite châtelaine
5. The Gossips
6. L’age mûr
7. Epilogue: Jessie Lipscomb visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929

Commissioned by San Francisco Performances.

1. By The Spring, At Sunset
2. Under the Blessing of Your Psyche Wings

Commissioned by Ravinia Festival (2012) and Opera America (2013).

1. You Scream
2. In A Restaurant
3. My Father’s Eyes
4. Back You Go

Composed for soprano Lisa Delan.

1. Silence
2. I’m Nobody! Who are You?
3. Fame
4. That I did always love
5. Goodnight

Commissioned by the Ravinia Festival in celebration of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s 70th Birthday.

1. “Why do I love” You, Sir?
2. What if I say I shall not wait!
3. If you were coming in the fall

Commissioned by the UCLA Choir (William Hatcher, conductor).

1. Est is ein Ros’
2. Coventry Carol
3. O Come, Emanuel
4. The Holly and the Ivy
5. I Saw Three Ships
6. I Wonder as I Wander
7. Silent Night

Arrangement by Jake Heggie. Unpublished.

1. Mad About the Boy
2. Someday I’ll Find You
3. Meme les anges

Music by Noël Coward, arrangement by Jake Heggie. Unpublished.

1. Crossing
2. On and Off
3. The Shoreline Lullabye
4. Whistling and Listening
5. In Tows and Threes (Motor Rhythm)

Commissioned by the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival.