Articles & Papers
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Allen, Helen Teresa
The Songs of Lori Laitman: An Analysis of Sunflowers and Early Snow; Ohio State University, DMA Dissertation, 2013.
Bempéchat, Paul-André
Paul is the author of Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters. He has written the entry on my music for The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (Jan 2013). View the content online at www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
Berg, Gregory
Gregory has reviewed many of Lori’s CDs in The Journal of Singing. Below is a partial list.
- Nov/Oct 2022: The Ocean of Eternity
- Jan/Feb 2022: Are Women People? The Songs of Lori Laitman
- May/June 2021: American Composers at Play
- March/April 2021: The Secret Exit
- Jan/Feb 2021: Transparent Boundaries
- May/June 2020: Living in the Body
- Jan/Feb 2020: Soprani/Compagni: Portraits of Women
- March/April 2019: RBG in Song
- November/December 2018 Remember
- May/June 2017: The Scarlet Letter
- May/June 2015: An Aids Quilt Songbook
- Jan/Feb 2014: Men with Small Heads, from Andrew Garland's American Portraits
- Mar/Apr 2012: Vedem
- May/June 2010: Unsleeping
- Jan/Feb 2010: Within These Spaces
- May/June 2007: Becoming a Redwood
- Nov/Dec 2006: The Shining Place
- Jan/Feb 2004: Dreaming
Bester, Christian
LGBTQ + Vocal Literature: Songs for Life in the May/June 2021 includes a discussion of Tableau, the third song in my Sable Pride cycle (settings of Countee Cullen).
Bryant, Jennifer Michelle
Lori Laitman: The Influence of Prosody on Melodic Content, Accompaniment, and Form in the Songs “Will There Really Be A ‘Morning’?” and “Dear March"; The University of Alabama, DMA Dissertation, 2012.
jenniferbryant.soprano@gmail.com
Butler, Lorenzo Luis
An exploration of selected art songs by Gustav Mahler, Robert Owens, Lori Laitman, Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, and Kolby Van Camp
M.M. Dissertation from The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance College of Arts and Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 2021.
Carman, Judith
Judith has reviewed many of Lori’s songs in The Journal of Singing.
- Jan/Feb 2014: Building a House, commissioned by Opera America for The Opera America Songbook
- Mar/Apr 2012: The Perfected Life
- Mar/Apr 2010: And Music Will Not End
- Mar/Apr 2008: Equations of The Light
- Jan/Feb 2008: The Seed of Dream
- Jan/Feb 2008: Full Moon and Light Hearted William: Two William Carlos Williams Songs
- Jan/Feb 2006: Becoming a Redwood; Two Dickinson Songs
- Nov/Dec 2005: The Apple Orchard
- Jan/Feb 2005: Living In The Body
- May/June 2004: Armgart
- Jan/Feb 2004: Between The Bliss and Me; Days and Nights; Four Dickinson Songs
- Mar/Apr 2003: Mystery
Carpenter, Greg
Behind the Curtain: New Opera in our Past and Future, May 2021.
Clifton, Keith
Recent American Art Song: A Guide. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
Crawford, Mary E.
Dickinson Sings: A Study of a Selection of Lori Laitman’s Settings for High Voice and Piano; University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, DMA Dissertation, 2013.
Dervin, Anne
Beyond the Butterfly: Recognizing, Reconciling, and Remembering, Music Written Within and in Response to the Terezin Concentration Camp; Michigan State University, DMA Dissertation, 2007.
Drake, Kathryn
A Performance Guide to Lori Laitman's "Living In The Body"; Louisiana State University, DMA Dissertation, 2010.
Eisenberg, Susan Dormady
- Lines Written At The Falls; Classical Singer, November, 2006.
- From Art Song To Opera; Classical Singer, October, 2009.
susandormadyeisenberg@gmail.com
Fegeas, Michelle
"Feminism in “(In) Habitation: Musical Settings of Margaret Atwood Poetry by American Women Composers” (dissertation focuses on Laitman's Orange Afternoon Lover cycle.) George Mason University, DMA dissertation, 2021.
Friedberg, Ruth C. and Fisher, Robin
American Art Song and American Poetry, Second Edition, published 2012.
Geihsler, Rebecca
Lori Laitman: A Pedagogical Study of Selected Vocal Works for the Soprano Voice; University of Mississippi, DA, 2008.
Hoch, Matthew and Lister, Linda
So You Want To Sing Music by Women
This book is a guide for performers, and a project of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. It was in published in the spring of 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield and available on their site. "The leading female American art song composers of our time are Libby Larsen (b. 1950) and Lori Laitman (b. 1955)...Laitman possesses 'an innate ability to capture the essence of textual meaning, a keen perception of vocal nuance, and a lavish intellectual and musical vocabulary that she uses with a facile ease.'"
Hoover, Maya
Voices of the Holocaust: The Poetry of Children and Adults Set to Music by Lori Laitman. Indiana University, 1999.
Maya Hoover has also lectured and written extensively on Lori’s works:
- Reaching into Untapped Resources: Some Overlooked Treasures of Song Literature; Classical Singer: October 2001.
- Lecture-recital: The Songs of Lori Laitman. Songs Across the Americas Festival, Bolivia, August 2003. Guest artist and lecturer. (Cochabamba, Bolivia)
Conferences:
- 2005 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and the Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan 2005. Lecture-recital: Silenced Voices: Singing the Songs of the Oppressed.
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Fayetteville Public Library, Fayetteville, Georgia, February 2004. Lecture-recital: Works by Jewish and Latin American composers in celebration of Blended Heritage Month.
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Walden University Graduate Education Colloquium, Bloomington, Indiana, June 2002. Lecture- recital: Silenced Voices: Singing the Songs of the Oppressed: Works by African American, Latin American, Jewish, and Female Composers.
Hoyt, Lucy Owen
- Becoming A Redwood: A Genealogy of Expression in Dana Gioia’s Poetry and Lori Laitman’s Song Cycle. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, DMA Dissertation, 2009.
- Music and Gender Expectations: The Historical Record of Women Composers and The Experience of Composer Lori Laitman. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008.
Ilban, Serdar
Songs From The Ashes: An Examination of Three Holocaust-Themed Song Cycles by Lori Laitman; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, DMA Dissertation, 2008.
Kim, Bora
A Guide to Performing Two Twentieth-Century Song Cycles by Lori Laitman and Lowell Liebermann
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DMA presented to the School of Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, April 2020.
Kimball, Carol
Books: Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature, 2nd Edition, published 2006.
Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music. Published 2013.
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Articles from The Journal of Singing:
- Setting Emily from The Song File, The Journal of Singing, Mar/Apr 2012.
- Song: A Guide To Art Song Style and Literature. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006.
- Bright is The Ring of Words from The Song File, The Journal of Singing, Sept/Oct 2009
- Tweaking The Song Recital from The Song Files, The Journal of Singing, Nov/Dec 2009
- A Smorgasbord of Song Groups from The Song File, The Journal of Singing, Jan/Feb 2010
Koolman, Erin Leigh
The Feminine Character: the balance between strength and charm. Kansas State University, MM Dissertation, 2023.
Masters report examines Debussy’s Trois Chansons de Bilitis, Rossini’s “Cruda Sorte!...Già so per practica” from L’Italiana in Algeri, selections from Wolf’s Spaniches Liederbuch, Massenet’s “Va! Laisse couler mes larmes” from Werther, Lori Laitman’s Daughters, Handel’s “In gentle murmurs will I mourn” from Jephtha, and Granados’s La maja dolorosa No. 1, 2, and 3.
Laki, Peter
On Songwriting: An interview with composer Lori Laitman; Lyrica, The Newsletter of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, Issue 29, Fall 2007.
Musicologist Peter Laki is Visiting Associate Professor at Bard College and a frequent program annotator for The Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln Center and numerous other organizations.
Levy, Leesa
Dissertation is about solo song material composed since 1945 on the poetry written by the children incarcerated in the Terezin concentration camp from 1942-1945. Chapter 8 is entitled Lori Laitman and The Song Cycle, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly.” DMA, North Dakota State University, 2008.
Lines, Carol
The Songs of Lori Laitman; The Journal of Singing, Sept/Oct. 2007.
Mabry, Sharon
The Masterful Lori Laitman; The Journal of Singing, Sept/Oct. 2008.
Mason, David
The Scarlet Libretto contains the text for my opera The Scarlet Letter. The preface tells the story of our collaboration.
Mueller, Andrea
Lori Laitman and Sara Teasdale: A Performer's Guide to The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs, Mystery, and The Years. Louisiana State University, DMA Dissertation, 2009.
Noh, Shin-Yeong
Emily Dickinson's Poetic Imagery in 21st-Century Songs by Lori Laitman, Jake Heggie and Daron. Indiana University, DMA Dissertation, May 2019.
Osborne, Katherine
”The Seed of Dream,” DMA Voice Lecture Recital. The Ohio State University, DMA Lecture Recital, 2015.
Park, Sung Jin
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Six Settings by Four American Composers. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, DMA Thesis, 2013.
Piazza-Pick, Jennifer
See It to Be It — Art Songs by American Women Composers.
Submitted for Doctor of Musical Arts in Solo Voice, 2020 Dissertation directed by Delores Ziegler, Professor of Voice and Martha Randall, Lecturer of Voice and Vocal Pedagogy, School of Music at The Univeristy of MD, College Park, MD.
Resch, Rita
Rita has reviewed Lori’s music in The Journal of Singing.
Jan/Feb 2012: Dreaming; This Space Available; One Or Two Things
Rider, Sylvia and Oakes, Jeannine
Colloquium Presentation: Memorialization of the Children from The Theresienstadt Ghetto. DVD interview and recital. 1-31-09 Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2009.
Rockwell-Kincanon, Janeanne
Contemporary Composers’ Use of Literature in Artsong. Janeanne is Assosicate Professor at Hamersly Library, Western Oregon University, publication forthcoming. Interview took place at my home on May 18, 2009.
Roland-Silverstein, Kathleen
Kathleen has reviewed Lori's music in The Journal of Singing. Below is a partial list.
- Jan/Feb 2023: Arias from Uncovered
- Sept/Oct 2021: The Imaginary Photo Album
- Nov/Dec 2020: Sable Pride
- March/April 2019: In Sleep The World Is Yours
- March/April 2017: Vedem Songs
Salazar,David
Opera Wire interview, Nov. 2022: Q & A: Composer Lori Laitman on Creating her Fifth Opera Uncovered
Savage, Karen
The Primacy of the Text in the Vocal Chamber Music of Lori Laitman; lecture-recital as part of DMA requirements at The Juilliard School, 2005.
Schwarm, Betsy
Operatic Insights: Understanding and Enjoying Great Music for the Stage; Published in 2011, this book features Lori's opera The Scarlet Letter.
More Classical Music Insights: From Mozart to Muhly and More; Published in 2013, this book speaks about Lori's Four Dickinson Songs
Seasonal Musical Insights, published in September 2018, speaks about Lori's songs Dear March, The Apple Orchard and the Early Snow song cycle.
Siebert, Arielle
From Loose Woman to Moles: The Music of Lori Laitman. Princeton University, BA, 1996.
Snydacker, Sarah Elizabeth
The New American Song: A Catalog of Published Songs by 25 Living American Composers (Chapter XX, pp. 255 – 281), PhD, May 2011, University of Iowa.
To view the dissertation, please click here: http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1265/
Spears, Coleman
Becoming A Redwood: A Journey Through Laitman's Cycle of Love, Death and Healing (2020) — written for Introduction of Graduate Music Theory at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN.
Strempel, Eileen
"The Passing of the Torch and Songs of Women Composers" reviews In Sleep The World Is Yours. The Journal of Singing, September 2015.
Van Gelder, Boukje
I'm Nobody, Who Am I?, 2019. This abstract examines three settings of Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm Nobody" —
- I’m Nobody’, Ernst Bacon (1898-1990), from Songs from Emily Dickinson
- I’m Nobody, Nick Raspa (written 1998)
- ‘I’m Nobody’, Lori Laitman (b. 1955), from Four Dickinson Songs