Song cycle: I Grow to be My Grandmother; My Mother Has Recovered; Letter to my Daughter; The China Cup; Pioneer Child’s Doll
2002 | soprano/piano.
Poems by Marjorie Saiser (b.1943), Janet Coleman (b.1935) and Judith Sornberger (b.1952).
Text to “I Grow To Be My Grandmother” from a poem of Marjorie Saiser, from “All My Grandmothers Could Sing, Poems by Nebraskan Women,” edited by Judith Sornberger, ©1984, Free Rein Press. Used by permission of the poet. Text to “My Mother Has Recovered” from a poem of Marjorie Saiser, from “Moving On,” ©2002, Lone Willow Press. Used by permission of the poet. Text to “Letter To My Daughter” from a poem ofMarjorie Saiser, from “Bones Of A Very Fine Hand,”©1999, Backwaters Press. Used by permission of the poet. Text to “The China Cup” from a poem ofJanet Coleman, from “All My Grandmothers Could Sing, Poems by Nebraskan Women,” edited by Judith Sornberger, ©1984, Free Rein Press. Used by permission of the poet. Text to “Pioneer Child’s Doll” from a poem of Judith Sornberger, from “Open Heart,” Calyx Books, Corvallis, Oregon, ©1993, Judith Mickel Sornberger. Used by permission of the poet.
Commissioned by The Nebraska Music Teachers Association. Premiere: October 24, 2002, The University of Nebraska, Kearney, Nebraska with Anne Foradori, soprano and Valerie Cisler, piano.
The premiere recording is on Albany Records Within These Spaces — Songs of Lori Laitman, with soprano Sari Gruber and pianist Warren Jones. Click here to purchase.
