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.Videos