Emmy-Award-winning original music commissioned for the public television documentary Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland, a story of America’s rural past and a forgotten lifestyle. Emmy-Award-winning original music commissioned for the public television documentary Death of the Dream: Farmhouses … Continue reading →
In 2008, Zeitgeist new music ensemble asked thirty Minnesota composers (one for each year of Zeitgeist’s existence) to write 150-second long pieces (one second for each year of Minnesota’s existence as a state) as a kind of double celebration event. … Continue reading →
This debut CD (including Heitzeg’s Sandhill Crane) by California pianist Teresa McCollough began as a nationwide call for original piano compositions by American composers. Three hundred scores later, she picked the best 7 to include on her recital programs and … Continue reading →
recording This piece is recorded by soprano Polly Butler Cornelius on the CD Wild Songs; a song recital as suitable for an environmental consciousness-raising event as for the salon. Drawing on impassioned pleas and the enigmatic nature-centered poetry of Emily … Continue reading →
This tender setting of the e.e. cummings poem is one of Heitzeg’s most performed Christmas pieces. Recording December Stillness includes a wide range of choral works, including Herbert Howells: Long, Long Ago. Kryzsztof Penderecki: Izhe xeruvimy (Song of Cherubim). Alf … Continue reading →
