CROSSING BORDERS by Jake Heggie; world premiere performance by Megan Moore and Francesco Barfoed скачать в хорошем качестве

CROSSING BORDERS by Jake Heggie; world premiere performance by Megan Moore and Francesco Barfoed

This world premiere song cycle by Jake Heggie sets diary entries by Nora London, the longtime president of the George & Nora London Foundation for Singers. After her passing in 2022 at the age of 98, her family found a locked, leather-bound diary containing a history Nora had shared with no one. The entries start in January 1940, when Nora was a teenager living a privileged life in Paris with her secular Jewish family. By May of 1940, with the Nazis marching towards Paris, she is given an hour to pack up and leave everything and everyone she has ever known. Her diary describes her life as a stateless refugee searching for a transit visa to the United States. Nora never tells anyone about the diary, but carries it from country to country, home to home, for the rest of her life. Gene Sheer curated diary entries set to music by Jake Heggie, and a world premiere performance was given by Megan Moore and Francesco Barfoed at the Morgan Library in New York City on April 6, 2025. This commission marked the foundation’s 30th anniversary of their esteemed alumni recital series.