Song Cycle: Last Night the Rain Spoke to me; Blue Iris; Early Snow.
2003 | soprano/piano.
Poems by Mary Oliver (1935-2019). Last Night The Rain Spoke to Me ©2001 by Mary Oliver. From What Do We Know, Da Capo Press. Used with permission of the Molly Malone Cook Literary Agency.
Commissioned by Adelaide Whitaker for soprano Jennifer Check. The premiere recording is on the Albany Records CD Becoming a Redwood — Songs of Lori Laitman, with soprano Jennifer Check and pianist Warren Jones.