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“The Imaginary Photo Album” premiere October 25, 2020 and BBC interview
The Imaginary Photo Album is a song cycle about childhood co-commissioned by the BBC and The Royal Philharmonic Society for BBC New Generation Artist soprano Katharina Konradi. There are four songs, setting the poetry of A.E. Stallings, Eugene Field and Joyce Sutphen. The premiere will take place at Wigmore Hall in London on October 25,…
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The Hampsong Foundation: Song and Beyond – with Thomas Hampson, Christie Finn, Lori Laitman and B.E. Boykin
On September 15, 2020 at 1 pm ET, Thomas Hampson and Christie Finn, Managing Director of The Hampsong Foundation, will chat with me and composer B.E. Boykinabout creativity and music on the Idagio platform. Song of America’s program “There Is No Gender in Music” will be used as a starting point. For more information and to view the program, please click here.
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Eastman Opera Theatre to present Our Voices: Immersive Composer Collaborations
I am delighted to be participating in the Eastman Opera Theatre’s Our Voices: Immersive Composer Collaborations. This project will feature one on one musical collaborations between students and six composers: Anthony Davis, Ricky Ian Gordon, myself, Missy Mazzoli, Ben Moore and Errollyn Wallen. Each of us will be curating a program of our vocal music. My…
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The Imaginary Photo Album to premiere at Wigmore Hall October 25, 2020
The Imaginary Photo Album, a cycle about childhood that sets the poetry of A.E. Stallings, Eugene Field and Joyce Sutphen, was co-commissioned by The BBC and The Royal Philharmonic Society for soprano Katharina Konradi. It will now premiere on October 25, 2020 at Wigmore Hall in England with Katharina Konradi and pianist Joseph Middleton, and…
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Oxford Lieder to stream “From The Pens of Women” recital on October 15, 2020
Mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately and pianist Simon Lepper will reprise their wonderful recital From The Pens of Women on October 15, 2020 from 19:30 – 21:30 GMT (7:30 – 9:30 pm ET). The event will be streamed live and will feature the following songs, all setting the poetry by women: PROGRAMME Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)…
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The Ocean of Eternity cycle at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival — Reimagined!
On August 20, 2020 at 18:30 GMT, my song cycle The Ocean of Eternity (poems by Anne Ranasinghe), adapted for soprano, clarinet and piano, will be performed at reimagined Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with soprano Sally Carr, clarinetist Calum Robertson and pianist Juliette Philogène. A program is below, and for more information about the festival, please…
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The 2020 London Song Festival
I am delighted that my music is included on The 2020 London Song Festival’s Roads to Solace series. All the concerts this season will be live streamed (and there is a possibility that some of the concerts might take place with appropriate social distancing). The Dickinson concert, Will There Really Be A Morning, is scheduled…
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NEW ERA VOICE FESTIVAL
M Institute for the Arts has created an exciting new online offering for July 2020 — The New Era Voice Festival. The festival includes masterclasses, workshops and livestreams and features such artists as Tracy Cox, James Valenti, Angel Blue, Jennifer Johnson Cano, among others. I am delighted that on July 31, 2020 at 7 pm…
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Seattle Opera’s Songs of Summer virtual recital — with Margaret Gawrysiak and Jeremy Reger
Mezzo-soprano Margaret Gawrysiak (so memorable as Mistress Hibbons in my opera The Scarlet Letter) and pianist Jeremy Reger will be presenting a virtual recital Tuesday June 30, 2020 at 7:00 pm PT, available on Facebook and YouTube. The recital will feature works by Francis Poulenc, Vaughan Williams, Kurt Weill, Errolyn Wallen, Stephen Sondheim and yours…
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Fourth Coast Ensemble’s “The Art Song Hour” — June 21, 2020 at 7 pm EDT
The wonderful Chicago-based vocal quartet, Fourth Coast Ensemble, has a new online series: The Art Song Hour. On Season 1, Episode 4, entitled Composers and Commissions, composer Andrea Clearfield and I will chat with the quartet, discussing the matter of commissioning. The program will include some of my music recorded by the ensemble (including my setting…
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Dimmesdale’s aria “Our Nights” selected for new Anthology of Tenor Arias
Our Nights, one of Dimmesdale’s major arias from The Scarlet Letter, has been selected for inclusion in “Arias for Young Voices — Tenor Edition,” published by Gehrmans Musikförlag, Scandanavia’s best music publisher. The anthology is edited by Barbro Marklund, mezzo-soprano and Professor of Singing at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway. The beautiful…
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OmniARTS Foundation to present Lean on Me – a virtual concert series
My wonderful colleague Tom Cipullo and I will co-host the inaugural American Art Song Concert for the OmniARTS Foundation’s Lean on Me Virtual Concert Series for Covid-19 Relief. The concert will take place on May 23, 2020 at 4 pm EDT and will feature performers from across the globe performing American art songs that have been…
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Sonoma County Philharmonic Premiere of Becoming a Redwood for soprano with orchestra
Becoming a Redwood, my cycle, to poems of Dana Gioia, was composed in 2003 as a 50th birthday gift for my husband Bruce Rosenblum. The cycle premiered at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC on May 5, 2004, with soprano Barbara Quintiliani and myself at the piano. While I had created a version for soprano…
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Lean On Me — a virtual concert of American Song – hosted by Tom Cipullo and Lori Laitman
Please join us on May 23, 2020 at 4 pm EDT, for the first of 3 virtual concerts presented by the OmniARTS Foundation. Tom Cipullo and I will be co-hosting this event, which will feature performances of American songs requested by essential workers. Half of the funds raised by this concert will benefit The New…
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Composers and Cocktails
The Cincinnati Song Initiative, founded by Samuel Martin, has started a new online series entitled Composers and Cocktails. Please tune in each Thursday night at 5:30 pm ET (via Facebook Live), as Sam Martin interviews living song composers about their work, their lives and their favorite cocktail. Be sure to watch the entertaining cocktail instructional…
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Music of Remembrance to launch a series of weekly online programs, starting April 20, 2020
Music of Remembrance, the Seattle-based organization founded by Mina Miller, will launch a series of weekly online programs, streaming some of the works they have commissioned over the years. The programs can be viewed by clicking the “Weekly Feature” tab on MOR’s home page. Here is the schedule: From April 20-26: The Boys of Terezin: a…
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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…
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Vedem
This is a photo of the four Vedem “boys” — who travelled to Seattle, WA in May 2010 to attend the premiere of my oratorio Vedem. From left to right are: Emil Kopel (from Melbourne, Australia), Leo Lowy (from Pompton Plains, New Jersey), Sidney Taussig (from Palm Beach, Florida) and George Brady (from Toronto, Canada).…
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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…
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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…
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Festival Chamber Music to present “Music by Holocaust Composers”
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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…
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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…
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Guest Composer for the SHE FESTIVAL 2020
I am honored to be the living guest composer for the upcoming SHE Festival 2020, which will take place at The University of Arkansas from March 5-7, 2020. The festival celebrates the contributions and achievements of women in music. I will give a lecture about my compositional path and process, and will also conduct a…
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Returning Guest Artist at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA
I am thrilled to be returning to George Mason University in Fairfax, VA to continue working with the very talented vocal students. I will conduct two workshops on my songs — on January 31 and February 10, 2020. The students will then be presenting a special Art Song Recital at Old Town Hall in Fairfax,…