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The 2020 London Song Festival
I am delighted that my music is included on The 2020 London Song Festival’s Roads to Solace series. All the concerts this season will be live streamed (and there is a possibility that some of the concerts might take place with appropriate social distancing). The Dickinson concert, Will There Really Be A Morning, is scheduled…
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NEW ERA VOICE FESTIVAL
M Institute for the Arts has created an exciting new online offering for July 2020 — The New Era Voice Festival. The festival includes masterclasses, workshops and livestreams and features such artists as Tracy Cox, James Valenti, Angel Blue, Jennifer Johnson Cano, among others. I am delighted that on July 31, 2020 at 7 pm…
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Seattle Opera’s Songs of Summer virtual recital — with Margaret Gawrysiak and Jeremy Reger
Mezzo-soprano Margaret Gawrysiak (so memorable as Mistress Hibbons in my opera The Scarlet Letter) and pianist Jeremy Reger will be presenting a virtual recital Tuesday June 30, 2020 at 7:00 pm PT, available on Facebook and YouTube. The recital will feature works by Francis Poulenc, Vaughan Williams, Kurt Weill, Errolyn Wallen, Stephen Sondheim and yours…
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Fourth Coast Ensemble’s “The Art Song Hour” — June 21, 2020 at 7 pm EDT
The wonderful Chicago-based vocal quartet, Fourth Coast Ensemble, has a new online series: The Art Song Hour. On Season 1, Episode 4, entitled Composers and Commissions, composer Andrea Clearfield and I will chat with the quartet, discussing the matter of commissioning. The program will include some of my music recorded by the ensemble (including my setting…
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Dimmesdale’s aria “Our Nights” selected for new Anthology of Tenor Arias
Our Nights, one of Dimmesdale’s major arias from The Scarlet Letter, has been selected for inclusion in “Arias for Young Voices — Tenor Edition,” published by Gehrmans Musikförlag, Scandanavia’s best music publisher. The anthology is edited by Barbro Marklund, mezzo-soprano and Professor of Singing at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway. The beautiful…
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OmniARTS Foundation to present Lean on Me – a virtual concert series
My wonderful colleague Tom Cipullo and I will co-host the inaugural American Art Song Concert for the OmniARTS Foundation’s Lean on Me Virtual Concert Series for Covid-19 Relief. The concert will take place on May 23, 2020 at 4 pm EDT and will feature performers from across the globe performing American art songs that have been…
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Sonoma County Philharmonic Premiere of Becoming a Redwood for soprano with orchestra
Becoming a Redwood, my cycle, to poems of Dana Gioia, was composed in 2003 as a 50th birthday gift for my husband Bruce Rosenblum. The cycle premiered at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC on May 5, 2004, with soprano Barbara Quintiliani and myself at the piano. While I had created a version for soprano…
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Lean On Me — a virtual concert of American Song – hosted by Tom Cipullo and Lori Laitman
Please join us on May 23, 2020 at 4 pm EDT, for the first of 3 virtual concerts presented by the OmniARTS Foundation. Tom Cipullo and I will be co-hosting this event, which will feature performances of American songs requested by essential workers. Half of the funds raised by this concert will benefit The New…
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Composers and Cocktails
The Cincinnati Song Initiative, founded by Samuel Martin, has started a new online series entitled Composers and Cocktails. Please tune in each Thursday night at 5:30 pm ET (via Facebook Live), as Sam Martin interviews living song composers about their work, their lives and their favorite cocktail. Be sure to watch the entertaining cocktail instructional…
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Music of Remembrance to launch a series of weekly online programs, starting April 20, 2020
Music of Remembrance, the Seattle-based organization founded by Mina Miller, will launch a series of weekly online programs, streaming some of the works they have commissioned over the years. The programs can be viewed by clicking the “Weekly Feature” tab on MOR’s home page. Here is the schedule: From April 20-26: The Boys of Terezin: a…
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Virtual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony
On Friday April 24, 2020, beginning at noon EDT, the City of Carmel, Indiana will stream its 2020 Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. The film will last approximately an hour and a half and can be viewed on Facebook by clicking here. I will be delivering the keynote talk in a pre-recorded speech, and will give a…
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Vedem
This is a photo of the four Vedem “boys” — who travelled to Seattle, WA in May 2010 to attend the premiere of my oratorio Vedem. From left to right are: Emil Kopel (from Melbourne, Australia), Leo Lowy (from Pompton Plains, New Jersey), Sidney Taussig (from Palm Beach, Florida) and George Brady (from Toronto, Canada).…
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Partial Lunar Eclipse for chorus to be featured on Harmonium Choral Society concerts in New Jersey in June 2020
The Harmonium Choral Society, directed by Dr. Anne Matlack, is presenting two performances of their concert “Moondance” — featuring works about the moon, as well as the winning entry of the 23rd annual High School Student Choral Composition Contest. Included is the choral version of my work Partial Lunar Eclipse for SATB with piano. The concerts will take place…
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Festival Chamber Music to present “Music by Holocaust Composers” at Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
From 7-9 pm on April 22, 2020, Festival Chamber Music will present a concert entitled “Music by Holocaust Composers — as part of the closing ceremonies for the Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. exhibit. The concert will be at the Safra Hall in The Museum of Jewish Heritage at 36 Battery Place at Battery Park…
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Festival Chamber Music to present “Music by Holocaust Composers”
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BBC/Royal Philharmonic Society co-commission to premiere at Cheltenham Festival July 10th
The BBC and The Royal Philharmonic Society co-commissioned a song cycle for BBC New Generation artist, soprano Katharina Konradi. The cycle is about childhood, and I set 4 poems to music — 2 by MacArthur “Genius” A.E. Stallings, 1 by Eugene Field and 1 by Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen. The cycle’s title is taken…
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In Series to feature Lori’s “Fresh Patterns”
Washington DC’s IN SERIES, with Artist Director Timothy Nelson, is presenting a Women Composers Festival from March 6-8. 2020. Featured will be Emily Lau’s Three Dickinson settings; Kate Soper’s “On the Words Themselves Mean What They Say,” music by Jessica Krash, and my “Fresh Patterns” — a setting for two sopranos and piano that combines…
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Guest Composer for the SHE FESTIVAL 2020
I am honored to be the living guest composer for the upcoming SHE Festival 2020, which will take place at The University of Arkansas from March 5-7, 2020. The festival celebrates the contributions and achievements of women in music. I will give a lecture about my compositional path and process, and will also conduct a…
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Returning Guest Artist at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA
I am thrilled to be returning to George Mason University in Fairfax, VA to continue working with the very talented vocal students. I will conduct two workshops on my songs — on January 31 and February 10, 2020. The students will then be presenting a special Art Song Recital at Old Town Hall in Fairfax,…
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Piano Commission from Dr. Melvin Chen, Professor of Piano at Yale School of Music
In early December 2019, Melvin Chen, who serves as Professor of Piano at The Yale School of Music (as well as Deputy Dean and Director of the Yale Summer School of Music), wrote to see if I had any interest in participating in a project involving the commission of a new set of Diabelli Variations to be composed…
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Recording with baritone Stephen Powell
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Naxos released a double CD “Living in the Body — Songs of Lori Laitman” on December 13, 2019
On December 13, 2019, Naxos will release a double CD of Lori’s songs entitled “Living in the Body
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GUEST ARTIST AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
I am thrilled that I will be the Guest Artist Master Class Clinician at George Mason University as part of the Fall 2019 Vocal Studies/Opera Division Master Class Series. I will be conducting master classes on November 19 and November 21, 2019 at 3 pm at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall at…