Lori Laitman

I've created 2 new arrangements of my 2013 Holocaust-themed song cycle "In Sleep The World Is Yours" — one for soprano/soprano saxophone and piano; and one for soprano/tenor saxophone and piano.
Available for download on artsongs.com. Classical Vocal Reprints will sell the hard copies.

Swan Songs: Classical Music Inspired by Swans | WFMT With this wealth of allegorical associations, these elegant creatures have captured composers’ imaginations for centuries.

Happy that my piece is included in this interesting feature!
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Wonderful meeting this afternoon with Sam Martin and Katie Leemhuis, who are recording my cycle "The Imaginary Photo Album" for their next CD:)

So pleased that Vedem will be reprised with Music of Remembrance this coming January!
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YouTube video by Release - Topic Ludlow, Act 1: "Out of the Rockfolds" / "I Barely Remember"

Working, working, working on creating the sheet music of the stand-alone arias from Act I of Ludlow. Here's a combo aria — Out of the Rockfolds/I Barely Remember from Act I, with Daniel Belcher, Maureen McKay and Andrew Rosenblum:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsNB...

YouTube video by Dana Gioia Why Opera is Misunderstood

A wonderful talk from my longstanding collaborator Dana Gioia — www.youtube.com/watch?v=V__t...

Ludlow update progress — I'm busy inputting changes to the fleshing out of Act II. This is the squishy part of the layout process of Finale.

From my FAQ page...

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts | Adia. Evans, Soprano and Michael Banwarth, Piano | Choose Chicago DAME MYRA HESS MEMORIAL CONCERTS | ADIA EVANS, SOPRANO MICHAEL BANWARTH, PIANO   Program Ricky Ian Gordon – Joy Joseph Marx – Two Pieces Alfred…

Thrilled that Tableua, from my Sable Pride cycle (settings of Countee Cullen) is included in this wonderful recital!

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YouTube video by Dashon Burton - Topic Holocaust 1944: II. How Can I See You, Love

Now up on YouTube — from my Holocaust 1944 song cycle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qop6...

Documenting the creative mess as I write and rewrite Act II of Ludlow, my opera about immigration. These words by David Mason unfortunately ring true: "We've let too many strangers come inside. America's a Tower of Babel now..."

Nice to see the hard copy!

Journey Lori Laitman, Andrew Harrison, Jason Lo · Imaginary Folksongs (Music for Saxophone and Piano) · Song · 2025

Hope you can listen to Andrew Harrison and Jason Lo's absolutely gorgeous rendition of my piece Journey, for alto saxophone and piano. Very grateful!
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Ludlow, Act 1: "Out of the Rockfolds" / "I Barely Remember" Lori Laitman, Maureen McKay, Andrew Rosenblum, Daniel Belcher · The Ocean of Eternity. The Songs of Lori Laitman. · Song · 2022

Still refining Act I of Ludlow, note by note. Or in the words of the incomparable Steven Sondheim — Bit by bit, putting it together, piece by piece....Then fleshing out Act II (and then writing Act III).
An opera about immigration is more timely than ever.

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Delighted that The Three Feathers will be done next November by the West Chester University Opera Theatre!

"Dear Mrs. First Lady" to Mark Campbell's touching poem, is done! Katie Hannigan commissioned 10 new songs to 10 new poems, about The Emergency Refugee Camp at Fort Ontario in Oswego, and these will premiere in November 2025 in Rochester.

My new opera catalogs have arrived (also available online). If interested, please PM.

Documenting the creative mess as I work on a new commission for mezzo-soprano Katie Hannigan — my first collaboration with Mark Campbell!

I asked ChatGPT to generate an XML file of a song in the style of Lori Laitman. This is what I got. Relieved that my livelihood is not yet endangered by AI.

Thanks for the interview, Canvas Rebel!

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My opera catalog has been updated, hope you can take a look on www.artsongs.com — the link is on the homepage.

YouTube video by Bruce Rosenblum Stop It Now I'm Brushing My Teeth

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Still one of my all-time favorite videos from my husband, a collaboration with our grandson Edward from a few years back. The song won the Gold Medal prize in the Children's Division of the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest.

A new version of Journey is now available for tenor sax and piano. PDFs downloads are available from my artsongs.com site and hard copies from Classical Vocal Reprints.

The Making of Maya and the Magic Ring - Lori Laitman, Composer Andrew Newbegin made a series of videos for Lyric Opera of Kansas City about the creation of Maya and the Magic Ring, my children’s opera with Dana Gioia that was commissioned by LOKC — links are belo...

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#newopera #womencomposers #melody #comicopera

On Yom HaShoah, we remember the six million Jews and millions of others killed during the Holocaust. Let the memory of those who were murdered serve as our calling to combat antisemitism and hate.

I Never Saw Another Butterfly - Lori Laitman, Composer Song cycle: The Butterfly; Yes, That’s The Way Things Are; Birdsong; The Garden; Man Proposes, God Disposes; The Old House. 1996, Revised 2018 | soprano/alto saxophone; soprano/clarinet or soprano/bas...

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day for 2025. Here's a link to my first Holocaust-themed composition, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, composed in 1995, which set the poetry of children killed in the Holocaust.
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#NeverAgain #memoryisouronlyshield

Wertheim Park - Lori Laitman, Composer 2022 | soprano/piano OR soprano/clarinet/violin/double bass/piano. Poem by Susan de Sola (1962-2021). Commissioned by Music of Remembrance and Mina Miller, Founder and Artistic Director for MOR’s 25th...

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025, I am sharing my composition Wertheim Park, to Susan De Sola Rodstein's haunting poem. The work was commissioned by Music of Remembrance and premiered online with Alisa Jordheim, soprano.
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#Neverforget #Neveragain

"A new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism" 😳

A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

#GVerse #LFG #ListenUp:
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.bsky.social finally saying it out loud. We are on our own. It is up to us. And it’s close to time to take to the streets.

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