Songs by Ricky Ian Gordon and opera composer Jake Heggie will be heard in a March 14th concert at Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 PM.
Gordon and Heggie will be on piano, while Eugenia Zukerman will be featured on flute. Singers Margaret Lattimore, Stephanie Novacek and
Mary Phillips will perform songs by Gordon and Heggie, as well as
Stephen Sondheim's "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" and "Every Day a Little Death" and Ned Rorem's "The House on the Hill."
Gordon's song cycle "Late Afternoon"--with musical settings of poems by Jane Kenyon, Jean Valentine and Marie Howe--will be presented as part of the concert, as will his songs "Summer," and "Trio for Three Daughters," as well as My Life with Albertine's "Sometimes." Heggie's "The Starry Night" and
The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love will also be performed.
Gordon is best known for his musical My Life with Albertine, which ran at Playwrights Horizons in 2003. Gordon's work can be heard on two CDs; Only Heaven features his settings of Langston Hughes poems, while Bright-Eyed Joy comprises
some of the Hughes pieces as well as settings to the words of Dorothy
Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay and others. A recording of his Dream True will be released by PS Classics this spring. It will feature Victoria Clark, Jason Daniely, brian d'Arcy James, Jeff McCarthy, Michael McElroy, Jessica Molaskey,
Kelli O'Hara, and Clark Thorell. A recording of his song cycle Orpheus and Euridice will be recorded by Ghostlight in April.
Heggie is the composer of the opera Dead Man Walking, which he wrote with Terrence McNally (who also collaborated with Heggie on the more recent "musical scene" At the Statue of Venus). His other operatic works include The End of the Affair (with a libretto by Heather McDonald). He has also composed various choral and orchestral works.The Weill Recital Hall is located at Carnegie Hall at 57th Street
and Seventh Avenue. Tickets, which are $32, can be ordered by visiting
www.carnegiehall.org.
