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Thoughts
2010 | mezzo-soprano and tenor/clarinet/piano; 2018 | mezzo-soprano/clarinet and piano; tenor/clarinet/piano. 2018 | mezzo-soprano/violin/piano; tenor/violin/piano. From the Vedem oratorio and Vedem Songs. Poem by Hanuš Hachenburg (1929-1944). ERRATA for VEDEM ORATORIO and VEDEM SONGS For the song THOUGHTS: Change original tempo to quarter=92; also change marking to 92 at measure 32 82: add forte to…
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Some Glad Morning
2026 | mezzo-soprano or soprano/piano. Poem by Joyce Sutphen (b.1949). Some Glad Morning is a 40th birthday gift for my youngest child, Andrew Rosenblum. Andrew has a deep appreciation for nature, so Joyce’s poem seemed perfect for the occasion. I have collaborated with Joyce since 2001 and always find her beautiful words and imagery to be…
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Vedem excerpts, Music of Remembrance, 1.26.26
All videos below are from Music of Remembrance’s Art From Ashes concert 1.26.26 at Benaroya Recital Hall in Seattle, WA. Featuring the Northwest Boychoir with Jacob Winkler, Music Director; soprano Vanessa Isiguen; tenor Martin Bakari; clarinetist Laura DeLuca; violinist Mikhail Shmidt; cellist Eric Han and pianist Christina Valdés. Thanks to videographer Andrew Mayatskiy for the…
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Vedem
2010 | Revised 2019 — boychoir/mezzo-soprano/tenor/clarinet/violin/cello and piano. Libretto by David Mason (b.1954). From the Vedem oratorio, commissioned by Mina Miller, Founder and Artistic Director and made possibly by a generous grant from the William O and K Carole Ellison Foundation. The work tells the story of the boys of Terezin and their secret magazine Vedem,…
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Living in the Body
This new double CD was released by Naxos on December 13, 2019. It features 49 songs composed between 1997 and 2017 to texts by celebrated poets including Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Celan, Dana Gioia, David Mason, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Sutphen and others. The topics range from the profound emotional impact of the Holocaust, to the humorous…
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Glowing reviews for Are Women People? CD
Reviews for Are Women People?, my latest CD released on Acis in May 2021, are starting to appear and I am so grateful for the wonderful reception. Maria Mazzaro, Opera News (December 2021) — CD named a “Critic’s Choice”: “In the first set of songs Lori Laitman sets three Margaret Atwood poems. They have an…
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Words & Music to present “Are Women People?”
On March 11, 2018 at 4 pm, the outstanding vocal quartet Words & Music will present a unique concert featuring Lori’s Are Women People?, a cycle for SATB vocal quartet and Piano four hands. The structure of this concert is quite unique: Guests are given a program with the texts and extra space to write…
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Vedem Songs
2010: for mezzo-soprano and tenor with clarinet and piano; OR mezzo or tenor with clarinet and piano. 2018: Violin versions created. This six song cycle is drawn from the Vedem oratorio, commissioned by Music of Remembrance. Poems are by Petr Ginz (1928-1944), Hanuš Hachenburg (1929-1944), Zdeněk Ornest aka Orče (1929-1990), and Josef Taussig (1914-1945). Memories of…
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Come to Me in Dreams
2004 | One act opera. Come To Me in Dreams was created from 15 of my songs by Cleveland Opera’s David Bamberger. Premiere: June 2004, The Ohio Theatre, Cleveland, OH. Archival video below. Please see my Opera Page for more details. I Did Not Manage to Save; Faults; Yes, That’s the Way Things Are; To-Night;…
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Vedem: A Holocaust Oratorio
2010 | Revised 2019 — boychoir/mezzo-soprano/tenor/clarinet/violin/cello and piano. The photo above is of the 4 survivors of the Boys of Terezin, Home #1, who wrote for the magazine, and who attended the Premiere in 2010. Pictured from left to right are Emil Kopel, Leo Lowy, Sidney Taussig and George Brady. Their story, and that of the…
