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• CD01 TK 01 Jake Heggie A Lucky Child from At the Statue of Venus (McNally)
• CD01 TK 02 Jake Heggie Some Times of Day (Carver) The Minuet
• CD01 TK 03 Jake Heggie Some Times of Day (Carver) Simple
• CD01 TK 04 Jake Heggie Some Times of Day (Carver) The Best Time of the Day
• CD01 TK 05 Jake Heggie Facing ForwardLooking Back Motherwit (Baldridge)
• CD01 TK 06 Jake Heggie Facing ForwardLooking Back Grounded (Zukerman)
• CD01 TK 07 Jake Heggie Facing ForwardLooking Back Mother in the Mirror (Maupin)
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• CD01 TK 09 Jake Heggie Here and Gone The Farms of Home (Housman)
• CD01 TK 10 Jake Heggie Here and Gone In Praise of Songs That Die (Lindsay)
• CD01 TK 11 Jake Heggie Here and Gone Stars (Housman)
• CD01 TK 12 Jake Heggie Here and Gone The Factory Window Song (Lindsay)
• CD01 TK 13 Jake Heggie Here and Gone In the Morning (Housman)
• CD01 TK 14 Jake Heggie Here and Gone Because I Liked You Better (Housman)
• CD01 TK 15 Jake Heggie Here and Gone The Half Moon Westers Low (Housman)
• CD01 TK 16 Jake Heggie To Say Before Going to Sleep (RIlke trans A E Flemming)
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• CD01 TK 18 Jake Heggie Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia Women Have Loved Before (Millay)
• CD01 TK 19 Jake Heggie Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia Not in a Silver Casket (Millay)
• CD01 TK 20 Jake Heggie Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia Spring (Millay)
• CD01 TK 21 Jake Heggie Final Monologue from Master Class (McNally)

One of the leading American composers of his generation, Jake Heggie arrives on Avie with Passing By, a gorgeous collection of recent songs and duets performed by a stunning array of international singers and instrumentalists. Fresh from the extraordinary success of The Dallas Opera premiere of his opera Moby Dick – “a wonderful and rare reminder that new opera truly can excite people if it’s done right,” according to The Washington Post – Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Heggie describes this collection as “songs that tell stories about now and then. Reflections of family, friends and lovers passing by. A missed or mistaken connection, a moment when everything might have been different. People who entered our lives and would be there forever, then suddenly were not there at all.”

Indelibly associated with his acclaimed operas, including Dead Man Walking (which made the Top 10 of Billboard’s Classical Chart), Three Decembers and The End of the Affair, Jake’s heart and soul lie in storytelling through song. With lyrics and poetry by the likes of A.E. Housman, Terrence McNally and Rilke, the songs of Passing By reflect the great American songbook tradition, replete with achingly beautiful melodies and striking observations of life’s journeys.

As Passing By illustrates, Jake’s music is championed by the most illustrious international signers, many of whom he has also collaborated with as a pianist. He has received commissions from San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Carnegie Hall and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and has had performances as far afield as Australia, Austria, Germany, Ireland and Sweden and South Africa.