Holocaust 1944

Song cycle: I did not manage to save; How can I see you, love; Both your Mothers; What Luck; Massacre of the Boys; Race; Holocaust 1944

1996, rev. 1998 | baritone/doublebass or baritone/cello

Poems by Ficowski, Vogel, Rosewicz, Gershon and Ranasinghe, about 28 minutes long.

Home and Where It Is

2016 | SATB Vocal Quartet/Piano 4-Hands

Poem by Alice Duer Miller.

Song 7 of cycle Are Women People?

Commissioned by The Hanson Institute for American Music at the Eastman School of Music and the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership. 

Home Number One

2010 | boychoir/clarinet/violin/cello and piano. Also available for boychoir (or children’s choir) and piano

From the Vedem oratorio and the Vedem choral excerpt cycle

Libretto by David Mason

Homeless

1998 | mezzo-soprano/piano or baritone/piano

Poem by Michael Flack, about 3 1/2 minutes long.

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• m. 30, the voice note on the word "but" should be an F natural.
• at the end of m. 36 into m. 37, there should be a slight broadening.
• m. 42, the first eight note on the syllable "fi" should be a D SHARP.
• The end piano part is essentially a recall of the opening part part.

Hope is a Strange Invention

2003 | soprano/piano

Poem by Emily Dickinson

Song 2 of One Bee And Revery

How can I see you, love

1996, rev. 1998 | baritone/doublebass or baritone/cello

Song 2 of cycle Holocaust 1944

Poem by David Vogel

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• m. 63 -- take a poco rit. into m. 64

I am in Need of Music

1999, rev. 2017| Duet: soprano/baritone/piano or soprano/mezzo-soprano/piano or mezzo-soprano/bass/piano

Poem by Elizabeth Bishop, 4 minutes.

A recording of with soprano Sari Gruber, baritone Randall Scarlata and pianist Andrew Rosenblum will be released on my new Naxos double CD, "Living in the Body — Songs of Lori Laitman" in December 2019.

Links to the PDF downloads are available on my site at MusicaNeo, found on this site's homepage.

ERRATA: these changes might not be in the edition you have m. 65-66 pedal should go through these two measures the last two measures should also be pedaled together

I Am Sitting on the Edge

2006, rev. 2017 | soprano/piano, also mezzo-soprano/piano version

Poem by Margaret Atwood

Song 3 of Orange Afternoon Lover

Jointly commissioned by The Howard Hanson Fund of The Eastman School and The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, and written expressly for soprano Eileen Strempel and pianist Sylvie Beaudette. This recording released spring 2010 on the Centaur Label: (In)Habitation: Settings of Margaret Atwood Poetry by American Women Composers.

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• In the mezzo version, in m. 21, the B should be tied to a B.
• In the soprano version, in m. 21, the C sharp should be tied to a C sharp.

I Contrived A Poem

2001 | soprano/piano

Poem by Anne Spencer Lindbergh

Song 3 of Round and Round

Commissioned by Dr. Adelaide Whitaker.

I could not prove

1997 | soprano/piano

Poem by Emily Dickinson

Song 3 of Between the Bliss and Me

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• The spacing in the piano part is a little off. For example, the ties in m. 2 and m. 3 in the right hand, between beats 2 and 3, are a little funny looking. This will be fixed in the new printed copy.
• For the last voice note, one can sing a low D instead if preferred.
• This song sounds the best in the original key.
• in some early editions, "aah" was used for the final lyrics. Now the end has a repetition of the phrase "proves that outgrown, outgrown, I see." My thanks to soprano Martha Ellison for this suggestion.