If you have written about Lori’s music and would like to have your work posted, or if there are any corrections needed in this information, please contact Lori.

Berg, Gregory

Gregory has reviewed many of Lori’s CDs in The Journal of Singing. A complete list will be forthcoming.

gberg@carthage.edu

 
Carman, Judith

Judith has reviewed many of Lori’s songs in The Journal of Singing, starting in the early 1990s.

Mar/Apr 2003   LAITMAN, LORI. MYSTERY. Five Settings of Sara Teasdale.

Jan/Feb 2004     LAITMAN, LORI (b. 1955). BETWEEN THE BLISS AND ME Three Dickinson Songs.

                           LAITMAN, LORI. DAYS AND NIGHTS Poems by Bourdillon, Browning,

Dickinson, and C. Rossetti.

                           LAITMAN, LORI. FOUR DICKINSON SONGS.

May/June 2004   LAITMAN, LORI (b. 1955). ARMGART (George Eliot).

Jan/Feb 2005       LAITMAN, LORI (b. 1955). LIVING IN THE BODY. Six Songs to Poems of Joyce

Sutphen for Soprano Voice and E-flat Alto Saxophone.

Nov/Dec 2005      LAITMAN, LORI (b. 1955). “The Apple Orchard.” Poem by Dana Gioia.

Jan/Feb 2006         LAITMAN, LORI (b. 1955). BECOMING A REDWOOD. A Song Cycle to Poems of

Dana Gioia for High Voice

                               LAITMAN, LORI.  TWO DICKINSON SONGS.

Jan/Feb 2007          LAITMAN, LORI (b. 1955). FULL MOON and LIGHT HEARTED WILLIAM:

2 William Carlos Williams songs for tenor and piano. In honor of Richard Miller, tenor and master teacher.  

Jan/Feb 2008           LAITMAN, LORI (b. 1955). THE SEED OF DREAM (Abraham Sutzkever). Baritone,

Cello and Piano.

Mar/Apr 2008          LAITMAN, LORI (b.1955). EQUATIONS OF LIGHT  (Dana Gioia).

Mar/Apr 2010          LAITMAN, LORI (b. 1955). AND MUSIC WILL NOT END for Mezzo soprano or

Countertenor and Piano (also published for Baritone).

jecarman@charter.net
 
Clifton, Keith

Recent American Art Song: A Guide. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Clif1ke@cmich.edu

 
Dervin, Anne

Beyond the Butterfly: Recognizing, Reconciling, and Remembering, Music Written Within and in Response to the Terezin Concentration Camp; Michigan State University, DMA Dissertation, 2007.

annedervin@gmail.com


Eisenberg, Susan Dormady

Lines Written At The Falls; Classical Singer, November, 2006.

From Art Song To Opera; Classical Singer, October, 2009.

Susaneisenberg@aol.com

 
Geihsler, Rebecca

Lori Laitman: A Pedagogical Study of Selected Vocal Works for the Soprano Voice;

University of Mississippi, DA, 2008.

rmgeihsler@yahoo.com
 

Hoover, Maya

Voices of the Holocaust: The Poetry of Children and Adults Set to Music by Lori Laitman. Indiana University, 1999.

Maya Hoover has also lectured and written extensively on Lori’s works:

Reaching into Untapped Resources: Some Overlooked Treasures of Song Literature;  Classical Singer: October 2001.

Lecture-recital: The Songs of Lori Laitman. Songs Across the Americas Festival, Bolivia, August 2003. Guest artist and lecturer. (Cochabamba, Bolivia)

 
Conferences:

2005 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and the Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan 2005. Lecture-recital: Silenced Voices: Singing the Songs of the Oppressed.             

Fayetteville Public Library, Fayetteville, Georgia, February 2004. Lecture-recital: Works by Jewish and Latin American composers in celebration of Blended Heritage Month.
 
Walden University Graduate Education Colloquium, Bloomington, Indiana, June 2002. Lecture- recital: Silenced Voices: Singing the Songs of the Oppressed: Works by African American, Latin American, Jewish, and Female Composers.

mayahoover@gmail.com
 

Hoyt, Lucy Owen

Becoming A Redwood: A Genealogy of Expression in Dana Gioia’s Poetry and Lori Laitman’s Song Cycle. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, DMA Dissertation, 2009.

Music and Gender Expectations: The Historical Record of Women Composers and The Experience of Composer Lori Laitman. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008.

lucyowenhoyt@earthlink.net


Ilban, Serdar

Songs From The Ashes: An Examination of Three Holocaust-Themed Song Cycles by Lori Laitman; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, DMA Dissertation, 2008.

ilbans@cox.net
 

Kimball, Carol

Song: A Guide To Art Song Style and Literature. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006.

Bright is The Ring of Words: from The Song File, The Journal of Singing, Sept/Oct 2009

Tweaking The Song Recital: from The Song Files, The Journal of Singing, Nov/Dec 2009

A Smorgasbord of Song Groups: from The Song File, The Journal of Singing, Jan/Feb 2010

cakfmster@gmail.com
 

Laki, Peter

On Songwriting: An interview with composer Lori Laitman; Lyrica, The Newsletter of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, Issue 29, Fall 2007.

Musicologist Peter Laki is Visiting Associate Professor at Bard College and a frequent program annotator for The Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln Center and numerous other organizations.

Lakipeter@aol.com
 
 
Levy, Leesa

Dissertation is about solo song material composed since 1945 on the poetry written by the children incarcerated in the Terezin concentration camp from 1942-1945. Chapter 8 is entitled Lori Laitman and The Song Cycle, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly.” DMA, North Dakota State University, 2008.

leesa.levy@vcsu.edu
 

Lines, Carol

The Songs of Lori Laitman; The Journal of Singing, Sept/Oct. 2007.

clines@mcneese.edu
 

Mabry, Sharon

The Masterful Lori Laitman; The Journal of Singing, Sept/Oct. 2008.

mabrymack@bellsouth.net 

 
Mueller, Andrea

Lori Laitman and Sara Teasdale: A Performer's Guide to The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs, Mystery, and The Years. Louisiana State University, DMA Dissertation, 2009.

andreadmueller@hotmail.com 


Rider, Sylvia and Oakes, Jeannine

Colloquium Presentation: Memorialization of the Children from The Theresienstadt Ghetto. DVD interview and recital. 1-31-09

Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2009.

Sylvia.aiko.rider@gmail.com
 

Rockwell-Kincanon, Janeanne

Contemporary Composers’ Use of Literature in Artsong. Janeanne is Assosicate Professor at Hamersly Library, Western Oregon University, publication forthcoming.  Interview took place at my home on May 18, 2009.

kincanj@wou.edu
 

Savage, Karen
 
The Primacy of the Text in the Vocal Chamber Music of Lori Laitman; lecture-recital as part of DMA requirements at The Juilliard School, 2005.

khsavage@wsu.edu
 

Siebert, Arielle

From Loose Woman to Moles: The Music of Lori Laitman. Princeton University, BA, 1996.

arielle.whiting2@gmail.com