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 brief history of the Terezin Concentration Camp and the creation of the secret magazine Vedem (Czech for "In the Lead").  The film will include Mayor Jim Brainard; Rabbi Benjamin Sendrow of Congregation Shaarey Tefilla; Rabbi Stanley Halpern of Congregation Beth Shalom; Rabbi Justin Kerber of Congregation Beth Shalom; City Councilman Miles Nelson, representing the Mayor’s Advisory Commission on Human Relations; and Dr. Michael Beresford Carmel Clay Schools Superintendent.

Musical performances will be by Cantor Arnie Lewin, Shaarey Tefilla member; Cantor Melissa Cohen, the Carmel United Methodist Church Bell Choir; the University High School of Indiana Vocal Quintet; and Indianapolis Opera Resident Artists: Laura Zahn, Mezzo-Soprano, Felipe Prado – Tenor, Andrew Pham - Pianist.

Hope you can tune in!

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 on both June 6 and June 7^th,  from 7:30-9:30 pm at Grace Episcopal Church in Morristown, NJ. For more info please click here.

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 in New York City.

Included is my cycle I Never Saw Another Butterfly, which sets the poetry of children who were killed in the Holocaust. It will be performed in its original version, with soprano Maureen McKay and saxophonist Gary Louie. 

For more information, please click here.

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 from Joyce's poem: The Imaginary Photo Album. The work was composed between October 2019 and February 2020.

The premiere is set for July 10, 2020 at the Cheltenham Music Festival in Cheltenham, England; with a repeat performance scheduled for October 25, 2020 at Wigmore Hall in London. 

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 poems by Emily Dickinson and Annie Finch. Annie will be on hand to introduce the work.

For more information please click here.