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American composer, born 1959

Steve Heitzeg
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Built-in (1959-10-15) October fifteen, 1959 (historic period 62)

Albert Lea, Minnesota
Alma mater University of Minnesota, Gustavus Adolphus College
Musical career
Genres Contemporary classical music
Occupation(s) Composer
Years active 1970s–present
Labels Innova Recordings, Stone Circle Music

Musical artist
Website steveheitzeg.com

Steve Heitzeg (built-in October 15, 1959)[ane] is an American composer whose works include compositions for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensemble, ballet, and pic.

He is well known for themes of environmentalism and social justice in his work,[2] [three] [four] which often incorporates unusual instrumentation with ecological or thematic resonance to the piece of work at hand, such as stones, driftwood, and whale bones. He has written more than 150 compositions since the late 1970s,[ane] [v] including the honor-winning On the Twenty-four hour period You lot Were Born,[3] his 2001 Nobel Symphony,[6] and soundtracks including the PBS films Decease of the Dream (which won an Upper Midwest Emmy Honor)[seven] and A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. [8]

Heitzeg's music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles across the US and Europe, including the Minnesota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Houston Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Florida Orchestra, Dale Warland Singers, VocalEssence and James Sewell Ballet.[nine] [10] [11] [12] His works have been performed by conductors including Marin Alsop, Philip Brunelle, Michael Butterman, William Eddins, JoAnn Falletta, Joseph Giunta, Giancarlo Guerrero, Sarah Hicks, Jahja Ling, Lawrence Renes, Christopher Seaman, Mischa Santora, André Raphel Smith, Joseph Silverstein, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Osmo Vänskä and Dale Warland.[13]

Early life [edit]

Heitzeg was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota,[14] and grew upwards on a dairy farm near the minor town of Kiester. In loftier school, he played trombone in marching band, guitar in jazz ring, and sang in the choir.[fifteen] He also wrote a rock opera, P.S., based on the story of the dissipated son, during his senior year.[16] [eight]

After graduating from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, in 1982, he earned his PhD in musical composition at the Academy of Minnesota in 1986, studying under Dominick Argento and Eric Stokes. His doctoral work was the 1985 composition Nine Surrealist Studies (After Salvador Dali), inspired by the Spanish surrealist painter, which was premiered in 1987 by the Florida Orchestra.[17] [xviii] [15] [2] [19] [20] [21] Kurt Loft of the Tampa Tribune praised the piece of work, calling Heitzeg "a serious composer with much to say" and adding that Nine Surrealist Studies "suggests the enigma of time and the irrational dream world that so fascinated the famed Spanish painter."[22]

Artistic philosophy and musical style [edit]

Writing about Heitzeg'due south career, Kurt Loft of the Tampa Tribune wrote that "Heitzeg is remarkably prolific. His torso of work includes pregnant orchestra and chamber pieces, opera, works for chorus and film scores. His compositions reflect a concern for environmental bug, history, art and literature."[xix] Terry Blain of the Minneapolis Star Tribune has called Heitzeg "renowned for the ecological calendar of his music, and its sense of social censor."[four] Heitzeg's belief in environmentalism and pacifism is a fundamental cornerstone of his work, with themes of social justice, ecology, and the interconnectedness of humans and the Earth interweaving in almost all his more than 150 creations.[3] [10] [9] [6] [23] [24] Heitzeg described his philosophy in a 1993 interview with the Arizona Daily Star: "To write about nature and to include natural instruments is my mission. By doing that I hope to have people realize our relationship to nature, and have them respect other lives. And when that happens, peace is more possible, be it world peace or inner peace."[12]

He has taken direct inspiration from the natural world in works such equally Makhato Wakpa (Blue Earth River), Vocalization of the Everglades, and Endangered (Written in Honor of All Turtles and Tortoises). Heitzeg has also been inspired by artists of many different disciplines, having devoted works to painters Georgia O'Keeffe and Salvador Dali, composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, poet Pablo Neruda, and others.[2] [25] Themes of human rights and social justice are at the forefront of works such every bit his Nobel Symphony, Peace March for Paul and Sheila Wellstone, and the recent work How Many Breaths? (In Retention of George Floyd and Countless Others).

His music often features natural instruments, such as stones, fallen tree branches, and sea drinking glass shards.[x] Heitzeg told 1 interviewer that he sees his use of natural materials as instruments as "a symbolic metaphor for the fact that nosotros're all connected and non separate from nature. All instruments come up from nature."[26] He has also used other kinds of found objects as instruments to highlight thematic resonances in a particular piece, such equally plowshares and olive branches in his Nobel Symphony,[6] [27] and Ford Mustang hubcaps and horseshoes in Mustang (in Tribute to Wild Horses and Burros).[28]

Ecoscores [edit]

An instance of one of Heitzeg's ecoscores, 2002's Peace March for Paul and Sheila Wellstone

As office of his creative commitment to environmental problems, Heitzeg writes what he calls "ecoscores", which are mitt-drawn graphics that combine musical notation and visual art, and seek to reinforce Heitzeg's themes of Earth and pacifism.[23] [29] [1] [24] [30] [13] Each ecoscore is mitt-fatigued on recycled paper.[12] Two ecoscores, Peace March for Paul and Sheila Wellstone and American Symphony (Unfinished), are in the permanent collection of the Weisman Fine art Museum in Minneapolis.[31] [32] Environmental Symphony, written for the 40th anniversary of World Day in 2010, defended each of its movements to a different endangered species including the leatherback turtle, Javan rhinoceros, and mountain gorilla.[33]

Critical reception [edit]

Heitzeg's work has been positively reviewed past many critics. Nicholas Tawa, author of the 2009 book The Great American Symphony, singled out Heitzeg as part of "a new crop of American composers who find value in writing symphonies."[34] Bruce Hodges of MusicWeb International called the 2004 VocalEssence operation of Heitzeg'due south Nobel Symphony one of the best concerts of that year, calling it "a work that continues to linger in the listen" and praising its "eloquent reimagining" of a text by Chilean poet-diplomat Pablo Neruda.[35] Michael Fleming of the St. Paul Pioneer Press said that "Heitzeg's compositions, whether for orchestra, solo instrument or voice, are colorful and superbly crafted. Backside each lies a story or idea, simply the music stands past itself."[eight] Writing for the Star Tribune, Terry Blain called Heitzeg's American Nomad "an unashamedly attainable and emotional piece, packed with tricky tunes and pin-sharp evocations of both landscape and urban environments. Its teeming generosity of spirit and openness to new experiences now feel painfully at odds with our more inwards-looking, mean-spirited present and seem most to rebuke it."[36]

Career [edit]

1980s and 1990s: A Wedlock, On the 24-hour interval Yous Were Born, and Aqua [edit]

In 1988, Heitzeg'southward 3-motility orchestral tribute to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, A Voice Remembered, was performed by the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis; WCCO-TV newscaster Dave Moore read from Humphrey's speeches and writing.[xv] Star Tribune classical music critic Michael Anthony praised the work as "neo-Romantic, emotive, heart-on-sleeve music" that "evokes the sound and idiom of Aaron Copland's work, peculiarly in the outer movements. ... In its brevity and tight structure, it's an effective work."[37]

Endangered (Written in Honor of All Turtles and Tortoises), a x-infinitesimal work for solo cello, debuted in Minneapolis in 1990. The piece uses a repeated theme around the notes Due east-D-A-G, autograph for "endangered", and was inspired past the like shapes of a cello and Galapagos tortoise. The Star Tribune's Michael Anthony called it "an odd and touching work in nine cursory movements held together by a lush, elegiac theme."[38] [39]

The Dale Warland Singers premiered Heitzeg's Christmas choral work lilliputian tree, based on the poem by due east.e. cummings, in 1990. The company later on recorded the song for their 1995 album December Stillness.[thirteen] Described by John Shulson of the Newport News, Virginia, Daily Printing every bit "a charming lullaby-like work of touching imagery",[40] little tree has become 1 of Heitzeg's most frequently performed works.[24] [41]

Two compositions by Heitzeg, Bloom of the Earth and Endangered, were used equally the score for the 1991 PBS American Playhouse film A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, starring Jane Alexander and Christopher Plummer.[42] [43] Flower of the World was originally written in 1987 in homage to O'Keeffe, and devoted each of its four movements to a different O'Keeffe painting.[25] Alexander, who co-produced the film, chose Heitzeg to create its score, and would piece of work with him once again repeatedly.[44]

Heitzeg's choral work Litanies for the Living was premiered in 1992 in Minneapolis by the Westminster Festival Chorus and Minnetonka Choral Gild. A meditation on peace between humans and nature, Litanies is set to text by poets Gary Snyder and Wendell Drupe. Michael Anthony of the Star Tribune called it "effectively and skillfully composed" and "evocative ... with a tone of reverence and loss."[45]

Makhato Wakpa (Blue Globe River) was premiered in Oct 1992 by the Mankato Symphony Orchestra. The piece is inspired past the geography and history of the Blue Earth River, including the mass execution of 38 Native Americans afterward the Dakota War of 1862. The Arizona Daily Star lauded it as "a work that fully integrates Heitzeg'due south ecological and cultural interests".[12] It was later performed by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Marin Alsop conducting, in 1995.[46]

The 1995 orchestral work Mustang (in Tribute to Wild Horses and Burros) paid tribute to the role of horses in American mythology, every bit well as their automotive descendants; instrumentation included Ford Mustang hubcaps and horseshoes used every bit percussive elements. Reviewer Todd Epp of the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Argus-Leader, reviewing a performance of the work by the South Dakota Symphony, said it "painted a brilliant sound portrait of freedom, ability, and the American West," and wrote that the hubcaps simultaneously served as "both a cymbal and a symbol."[28]

In 1995, Heitzeg wrote the symphony On the Day You Were Born to accompany the bestselling children's book by Debra Frasier. The work was debuted by the Minnesota Orchestra, with actress Jane Alexander equally narrator, and subsequently released by the orchestra as an animated children's video on the NotesAlive! label.[44] The Minnesota Orchestra restaged the piece with Maya Angelou equally narrator in 2008.[47] The symphony has been performed frequently by orchestras across the U.South.[iii] On the Day Y'all Were Born won the American Library Association's Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video in 1997.[48]

Heitzeg was deputed in 1997 by Gustavus Adolphus College to write Blessed are the Peacemakers, a piece of work for alto soloist, chorus and orchestra which honored the 25th ceremony of the college'south almanac pupil-performed "Christmas in Christ Chapel" program. The work besides honored five historic peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Hildegard von Bingen, St. Francis, Dag Hammarskjöld and Raoul Wallenberg.[49]

Heitzeg'due south debut album, Earthworks: Music in Honor of Nature, was released in 1998 on Innova Recordings. A collection of his chamber works, the album includes performances by flutist Julia Bogorad, soprano Maria Jette, cellist Laura Sewell, the Business firm of Promise Children's Choir and Zeitgeist.[50] [5] [51]

Aqua (Hommage a Jacques-Yves Cousteau), a tribute to the oceans and the influential French explorer and environmentalist, was debuted in 1999 by the Virginia Symphony. In 2000, the game prove Jeopardy! featured Heitzeg and Aqua as the field of study of a Final Jeopardy question.[52] [53] [54]

2000s: Decease of the Dream, Phonation of the Everglades, and Nobel Symphony [edit]

Heitzeg wrote the words and music for What the River Says, a 15-minute work for chorus, piano and percussion in 3 movements, which was inspired by the 1997 Red River flood that devastated N Dakota and deputed past the American Composers Forum and the National Endowment for the Arts. It was premiered by the Grand Forks Principal Chorale in 2000. Heitzeg used stones and driftwood he gathered from the Cherry River banks equally natural instrumentation. The title was taken from a poem by William Stafford.[55] [56] [57]

Heitzeg'southward score for the PBS documentary Decease of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland won an Upper Midwest Emmy in 2000 from the National Academy of Television receiver Arts and Sciences.[seven] Information technology was performed past cellist Laura Sewell, pianist Thomas Linker, dabble and mandolin player Peter Ostroushko, Heitzeg himself on guitar, and members of the new-music ensemble Zeitgeist. The score was released on disc by Innova Recordings.[58] [59]

Voice of the Everglades (A Tribute to Marjory Stoneman Douglas) was commissioned by Florida's Naples Philharmonic Orchestra in laurels of conservationist Stoneman Douglas, and premiered in November 2000. To create the work, Heitzeg spent time in Florida's Everglades and Ten Thousand Islands collecting sound recordings and institute objects subsequently used in the terminal piece, including manatee vocalizations, coral, river stones, sawgrass bundles and manatee basic. The premiere performance was accompanied by large-scale projection of images of the Everglades by nature photographer Clyde Butcher, who besides narrated excerpts from Stoneman Douglas' writings. Cathy Chestnut of the Fort Myers, Florida News-Printing chosen it "a celebration of Douglas' life and the land she fought to protect, and an elegy for the endangered manatee."[26] The Czechia's Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra's recording of Phonation of the Everglades was released on the label Rock Circle Music in 2005. Reviewer John Leeman of MusicWeb International called information technology "heartening" and likened it to "a spoken documentary set to music. You could perhaps call back of it as a kind of conservationist Peter and the Wolf."[60]

Heitzeg's 2001 Nobel Symphony celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize, and was deputed by Gustavus Adolphus College, which hosted the 33rd annual Nobel Conference that year. The 75-minute symphony was the largest piece of work of Heitzeg's career upwards to that point, involving 400 musicians from the Gustavus Orchestra and five separate choirs. Each of its six movements is dedicated to a detail category of Nobel Prize—Peace, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Economics—and includes writings from Nobel laureates such equally Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and Rigoberta Menchú. Heitzeg's utilise of unconventional instruments continues here, with percussionists playing plowshares, olive branches, Tibetan singing bowls, African drums, empty soup cans (representing hunger) and hollow prosthetic legs (representing the folly of war). Kay Miller of the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote that the work's focus on the need for world peace took on added significance given the political circumstances at the time, with its debut operation coming only two weeks after the September 11 attacks.[half-dozen] [27]

Symphony to the Prairie Farm, a 20-minute work in 4 movements, was outset performed in 2002 by the Des Moines Symphony.[61] Robert C. Fuller of the Des Moines Annals called it "an eclogue to Midwestern agrarianism", and praised the employ of squeaky toys to mimic prairie dogs "strangely evocative and constructive."[62] Ghosts of the Grasslands, the first movement of the symphony, was performed past the Boulder Philharmonic, with Michael Butterman conducting, in 2022 at the Kennedy Middle in Washington, D.C.[63]

Heitzeg wrote Centennial Fanfare (A Common Call) in honor of the Minnesota Orchestra's 100th flavour in 2002.[64]

We Are Met at Gettysburg, co-commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra and The Philadelphia Orchestra and debuted in 2003, was jointly created with Pennsylvania composer Amy Scurria. With a title taken from Lincoln's Gettysburg Accost, the work honored the 140th ceremony of the Civil War battle.[65]

The choral concert River Journeying Suite, debuted in 2004 past the Dale Warland Singers, included compositions past Heitzeg, William Banfield, Kirke Mechem, and John Muehleisen; Heitzeg's work, Elegy on H2o, was inspired by a Robert Bly poem, "Mourning Pablo Neruda." Bly read his verse form during the operation; reviewer Michael Anthony praised the music's "whirling figures [which] coalesced into a folklike hymn at the cease."[66]

Song Without Borders, a iv-function piece of work for string quartet, was written in retentiveness of the victims of a 2003 bombing attack on Un workers in Baghdad, and was performed by the Daedalus Quartet in 2008 at the Un Headquarters in New York to commemorate the 5th ceremony of the attack.[67] [68] Soon after, it was performed by the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra String Quartet in Baghdad.[v]

In 2008, the James Sewell Ballet collaborated with Heitzeg on Social Movements, a xxx-minute trip the light fantastic toe piece scored past Heitzeg on the themes of war, global warming, refugees and human being rights and inspired in office by the self-sacrifice of the Quaker peace activist Norman Morrison, who set himself on burn down in 1965 to protestation the Vietnam State of war. Reviewer Camille Lefevre, writing for the Star Tribune, praised the music's "sensory and historical avalanche ... packed with emotional and dramatic cues."[69] [70] [30]

While We Breathe, We Hope (Fanfare For Obama), which included text from Barack Obama'south victory spoken language afterwards his 2008 election win, was commissioned and premiered by The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota in 2009.[18]

2010s and 2020s: Symphony in Sculpture, American Nomad, and How Many Breaths? [edit]

In 2011, Innova Recordings released Wild Songs, an album of compositions by Heitzeg and Lori Laitman sung by soprano opera and bedroom music vocalist Polly Butler Cornelius and Zeitgeist members Heather Barringer and Patti Cudd, besides as recorded bonobo vocalizations. Information technology features texts by Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall and Terry Tempest Williams.[71] [72] Reviewing the album, Steven Ritter of Audiophile Audition magazine chosen Heitzeg "a composer who is fiercely melodic and knows how to integrate disparate sounds into a whole".[73] Dominy Clements of MusicWeb International magazine called the album "highly approachable" and praised the music as "full of fascination and variety. ... These are works which lead their own ecology consciousness-raising life with considerable communicative depth."[74] Cheryl Coker of the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music chosen it "intriguing" and said that Cornelius was "excellent" and "consistently constructive throughout her vocal range."[75]

In 2012, the Des Moines Symphony debuted Symphony in Sculpture, a 25-minute piece of work deputed for the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in Des Moines and for the 75th season of the Des Moines Symphony itself. It is divided into 9 short movements, each representing one of the sculptures in the park. Music critic Michael Morain of The Des Moines Register felt the piece was too short, but said that "the music matches the sculptures with only a few thoughtful strokes."[76] Symphony in Sculpture Two followed in 2015, covering 6 more sculptures and including windchimes made from chakra stones and olive branches, a steel mixing basin from Heitzeg's late mother's kitchen, and trilobite and whalebone fossils. 2019's Symphony in Sculpture III pays tribute to three more than sculptures, including a sculpture past Ai Weiwei.[77]

In 2015, the Minnesota Orchestra premiered Heitzeg's trumpet concerto American Nomad, a work for full orchestra which also included instrumentation such equally an armature bar from the Statue of Liberty, New York City subway spikes, a piece of steel from the Golden Gate Bridge, and fallen branches from a Joshua tree.[78] Michael Anthony of the Star Tribune, writing about its debut performance, called it an "intriguing" and "vividly rhythmic ... rumination on the American spirit: its loneliness, its medley of cultures, its restless appetite and grandiosity," which he felt was "and then good that one is led to predict information technology volition be performed by numerous orchestras across the state."[79] Terry Blain, writing about a 2022 functioning, praised its "exuberant, multifaceted writing for solo trumpet, laced with jazzy stylings and suffused with the irrepressible curiosity of the American spirit."[36]

His chamber music work Seabirds and Stones: In Memory of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Refugee (Variations on Immigration) debuted together at Lakeville Area Arts Center in January 2018; performers included Anna Christofaro, soprano, and Mary Jo Gothmann, pianoforte.[80]

For violinist Ariana Kim, Heitzeg wrote the music for How Many Breaths?, an 18-minute multimedia work for solo violin and spoken word inspired by the 2022 protests in the Twin Cities confronting the murder of George Floyd. Kim non only performed the violin only edited the video presentation of demonstrations and art created during the protests, with spoken text past Penumbra Theatre artistic director Sarah Bellamy. The video premiered in September 2022 on the website of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota. Star Tribune critic Terry Blain called Heitzeg'south score "jaggedly expressive."[81] [4]

Other work [edit]

In addition to composing, Heitzeg has also taught at Minnesota State University Mankato and Gustavus Adolphus College, and worked in the Minnesota Orchestra library.[42] [54] He was the 1993–1994 composer-in-residence at the University of Saint Thomas.[1]

Awards and accolades [edit]

  • Heitzeg's score for the PBS documentary Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland won a Upper Midwest Emmy Award in 2000 from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.[58] [7]
  • On the Twenty-four hour period You Were Built-in won the American Library Association's Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video in 1997.[48]
  • Heitzeg was awarded the 2001 McKnight Composer Fellowship, too as numerous other awards, grants and commissions from organizations including ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Archibald Bush Foundation, Meet the Composer and the Jerome Foundation.[20] [i] [v] [viii]
  • Heitzeg was named Composer of the Twelvemonth at the 2001 Minnesota Music Awards.[82]
  • Heitzeg received Gustavus Adolphus Higher'south First Decade Honour in 1992 and the Distinguished Alumni Citation in 1996.[16]
  • In 2020, Heitzeg and the National Lutheran Choir jointly won Chorus America and the American Composers Forum's annual Dale Warland Singers Committee Laurels for his Lament of the Earth.[83]

Gustavus Adolphus College maintains an archive of materials related to Heitzeg's composing career.[16] [1]

Personal life [edit]

Heitzeg lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife Gwen and daughter Zadie.[ten] [84]

Selected works [edit]

Orchestral works [edit]

  • Nine Surrealist Studies (Later on Salvador Dali) (1987)
  • A Vocalism Remembered (in Memoriam Hubert H. Humphrey) (1988)
  • Makhato Wakpa (Blue Globe River) (1992)
  • On the 24-hour interval You lot Were Born (1995)
  • Blessed are the Peacemakers (1997)
  • Mustang (in Tribute to Wild Horses and Burros) (1998)
  • Aqua (Hommage a Jacques-Yves Cousteau) (1999)
  • Voice of the Everglades (A Tribute to Marjory Stoneman Douglas) (2000)
  • Nobel Symphony (2001)
  • Blue Liberty (2002)
  • Symphony to the Prairie Farm (2002)
  • Nosotros Are Met at Gettysburg (2003)
  • Wounded Fields (2003)
  • Madeline Island: Sanctuary in Blueish (2005)
  • The Tin Forest (2005)
  • Together (Divided Nosotros Are Aught…) (2007)
  • While We Breathe, We Hope (Fanfare For Obama), (2009)
  • Symphony in Sculpture (2012)
  • At present Nosotros Starting time the Great Circular (2014)
  • Symphony in Sculpture Ii (2015)
  • American Nomad (2015)
  • Symphony in Sculpture III (2019)

Instrumental and chamber works [edit]

  • Endangered (Written in Honor of All Turtles and Tortoises) (1990)
  • Centennial Fanfare (A Common Call) (2002)
  • Of Wind and Wood (2003)
  • Peace March for Paul and Sheila Wellstone (2003)
  • Open Spaces (2004)
  • Peace Cranes (2006)
  • Song Without Borders (2008)
  • The Legend of the Bluebonnet (2009)
  • While We Breathe, We Hope (Fanfare for Obama) (2009)
  • Ecology Symphony (2010)
  • Seabirds and Stones: In Memory of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (2018)
  • How Many Breaths? (In Retentiveness of George Floyd and Countless Others) (2020)

Vocal and choral works [edit]

  • Enduring Earth (1990)
  • little tree (1990)
  • Litanies for the Living (1992)
  • What the River Says (2000)
  • Elegy on H2o (2004)
  • River Journey Suite: "Mourning Pablo Neruda" (2004)
  • We, Too, Rise (2006)
  • I Pray to the Birds (2010)
  • Long Walk To Liberty (2014)
  • I Will Be a Hummingbird (2015)

Moving picture, theater and ballet scores [edit]

  • A Union: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (1991)
  • Inheriting the Holocaust (1994)
  • Expiry of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland (2000)
  • Ghosts (2003)
  • Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom (2006)
  • Social Movements (2008)

Songs and cycles [edit]

  • Refugee (Variations on Immigration) (2018)

Discography [edit]

As primary artist [edit]

  • On the Day You Were Born (video, Minnesota Orchestra, 1996)
  • Steve Heitzeg, Earthworks (Music In Honor Of Nature), (1998, Innova Recordings)
  • Steve Heitzeg, Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland (Original Score), (2000, Innova Recordings)[50]
  • Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Vox of the Everglades: A Tribute to Marjory Stoneman Douglas, (2000, Stone Circumvolve Music)
  • Polly Butler Cornelius, Wild Songs: Polly Butler Cornelius performs songs by Steve Heitzeg and Lori Laitman, (2011, Innova Recordings)[71]
  • Des Moines Symphony, Steve Heitzeg, Symphony in Sculpture I, 2, and III (DVD set, 2012)

Compilations and other works [edit]

  • Dale Warland Singers, December Stillness, (1995, American Choral Itemize); features Heitzeg'south little tree
  • Teresa McCollough, New American Piano Music, (2001, Innova Recordings); features Heitzeg'south Sandhill Crane (Migration Variations)
  • Zeitgeist, Here and Now: Celebrating Xxx Years of Zeitgeist (2011, Innova Recordings); features Heitzeg's American Indian Movement (No Reservations) [85] [86]

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External links [edit]

  • Official Steve Heitzeg website
  • Heitzeg'due south music on YouTube
  • The Collection of Steve Heitzeg at the Gustavus Adolphus Higher and Lutheran Church Archives
  • Steve Heitzeg at IMDb
  • YouTube video of Heitzeg's Final Jeopardy question

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