Looking West: Sweet Light

Sweet Light is the first song from the Looking West section of Jake Heggie's Winter Roses song cycle. The original poem was written by Raymond Carver, a well-known American poet and short-story author.

Date: 2004Composer: Jake HeggieText: Raymond CarverSong Collection: Winter Roses

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Recordings

Flesh and Stone: Songs of Jake Heggie

(Raymond Carver, Emily Dickinson, Jake Heggie, Sister Helen Prejean, Gene Scheer and Anne Sexton)

The Moon's A Gong, Hung In The Wild: Songs By Jake Heggie

(Raymond Carver, Jake Heggie, Vachel Lindsay, Sister Helen Prejean and Gene Scheer)

2015

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