The Imaginary Photo Album

Song Cycle: Ultrasound; Little Blue Pigeon; Listening to Peter and the Wolf with Jason, Aged Three; The Imaginary Photo Album.

2020 | Soprano with Piano 

Poems by A.E. Stallings, Eugene Field and Joyce Sutphen.

Commissioned by the BBC Radio 3 and The Royal Philharmonic Society for New Generation Artist soprano Katharina Konradi.

Premiere: October 25, 2020, Wigmore Hall, London, UK with soprano Katharina Konradi and pianist Joseph Middleton.

To purchase the PDF of this cycle, please click here.

This is a cycle about childhood and subsequent adulthood, as seen through the eyes of the mother.

The Imaginary Photo Album

2020|soprano/piano

Poem by Joyce Sutphen

Song 4 of cycle The Imaginary Photo Album

The Joy of Uncreating

2013, rev. 2016| mezzo-soprano/piano or baritone/piano

Poems by Joan Joffe Hall

Commissioned by Adelaide Whitaker.

Illumination, Joy of Uncreating

duration: 5 minutes

To purchase the pdfs of The Joy of Uncreating cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano on Musicaneo, please click here.

To purchase the pdfs of The Joy of Uncreating cycle for baritone and piano on Musicaneo, please click here.

The newly-created (May 2016) baritone and piano version was recorded by baritone Steven LaBrie and pianist Adam Nielsen and is available for purchase by clicking here. 

The mezzo-soprano version was recorded by Margaret Gawrysiak and Andrew Rosenblum and will be on a Naxos double CD of Lori's music to be released in December 2019.

The Kiss

1998 | baritone/piano or mezzo-soprano/piano

Poem by Sara Teasdale

Song 3 of Mystery

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• just to clarify matters, the last vocal note of m. 3 is a C sharp.
• in the last measure of the LH of piano, the 4th 16th note chord should have an A natural, not an A#.

The Love Poems of Marichiko

Song cycle: I Sit at my desk; If I Thought; Oh the Anguish; You Ask Me; Autumn; Just Us

1993, rev. 1994 | soprano/cello

Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, approximately 12 minutes long.

View and buy printable sheet music (PDF) by clicking here.

The Man Who Lied

2013 | soprano/piano

Poem by David Mason

Song 1 of The Soul Fox

Commissioned by Reach Out Kansas, Inc. (ROKI) for soprano Julia Broxholm and pianist Russell Miller.

The Man Who Lied

2013 | soprano/piano

Poems by David Mason

Commissioned by Reach Out Kansas, Inc. (ROKI) for soprano Julia Broxholm and pianist Russell Miller.

Premiere on September 22, 2013 at 2:30 pm at the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS School of Music and on Oct 2, 2013 at 9 pm at EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC.

The Metropolitan Tower

1991-1992 | soprano/piano

Poem by Sara Teasdale

Song 1 of The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs

The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs

Song cycle: The Metropolitan Tower; A Winter Night; Old Tunes; The Strong House; The Hour; To A Loose Woman

1991-1992 | soprano/piano

6 settings of Sara Teasdale, approximately 12 minutes long.

The Mikvah Aria — Young Leah's aria from Uncovered, Scene 2 — The Mikvah

2020 |soprano/piano or soprano/clarinet/violin/cello/piano

Libretto by Leah Lax

Leah immerses in a mikvah ritual bath as her entry into hasidic married life. She marvels at how exposed she feels there before God after a lifetime of keeping her homosexuality secret.

Sheet music for sale through MusicaNeo (available through my homepage).

2020 |soprano/piano or soprano/clarinet/violin/cello/pianoLibretto by Leah LaxSheet music for sale through MusicaNeo (available through my homepage).