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Work: Songs for Murdered Sisters

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ComposerHeggie, Jake (b. 1961)
PeriodContemporary
Words byMargaret Atwood
Year2021
Work typeVocal
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Songs of love and loss from the Philadelphia Orchestra

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin pairs Mahler's weighty Ninth Symphony with Jake Heggie's Songs for Murdered Sisters, which considers the scourge of domestic violence against women.
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Hopkins shines in Heggie and Atwood’s Songs for Murdered Sisters

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The National Arts Centre Orchestra and Joshua Hopkins bring Jake Heggie and Margaret Atwood’s Songs for Murdered Sisters to Roy Thomson Hall, intriguingly partnered with two works from the high Romantic.
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