Tag: Jake Heggie

My friend Paul Moravec let me know about a series of posts on NPR’s Deceptive Cadence blog - a set of pieces in which various composers have put to music brief quotes from various American presidents. Paul did Eisenhower; Nico Muhly did Andrew Jackson, the late Milton Babbitt did Madison; there are pieces by Jake Heggie, Sam Adler and several more. (at left, a singing president - James Maddelena as the title character in Nixon in China.)