This is the first pre-release EP derived from Unexpected Shadows, a song recital album full of poetry on and by inspiring women, composed by Jake Heggie, and performed by mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, accompanied by the composer himself on the piano. Music is a song on the transformative, healing, and humanizing power of music, on a text by Sister Helen Prejean, best known for her book Dead Man Walking. “I don’t have to do a thing” is the so-called Ice Cube Aria from Heggie’s opera If I Were You, on a libretto by Gene Scheer, in which the female demon Brittomara reflects on the delicious predictability of human nature.