Annual American Composers Update
Lori Laitman
Lori Laitman's
Armgart won the 2000 Boston Art
Song Competition.
Premieres
Holocaust 1944 (a song cycle setting poems about
the Holocaust), for baritone and bass viol, introduced
at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, with Erich Parce and Gary
Karr, Nov. 6, 2000, will heard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum, with William Sharp and Harold Robinson, Apr. 29,
2001. In Washington, DC,
Sunflowers (a song cycle
setting poems of Mary Oliver), for soprano and piano,
premiered with Adelaide Whitaker and Gillian Cookson at
the Sumner School Museum, Dec. 10, 1999; and then was
performed by Amanda Balestrieri and Steven Silverman at
the French Embassy, Oct. 19, 2000. On Mar. 19, 2000,
Homeless
was presented by Margorie Bunday, soprano, accompanied
by Carl Banner, piano, at a Washington Musica Viva program
in Kensington, MD.
Armgart was sung first May 13,
2000 at the University of Reading (England) with soprano
Naomi Gurt Lind and pianist Lila Gailling.
Performances
Daughters, a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano
trio, had a performance with mezzo-soprano Brenda Patterson,
Aug. 5, 2000 at the Music Academy of the West, in Santa
Barbara, CA. In 2000,
Mystery, a song cycle for
mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano, was heard with Timothy
Quistorff, baritone, and Celeste Rue at Roosevelt University,
in Chicago, IL, Feb. 15; and with Quistorff and Timothy
McKnight at Michigan State University, Feb. 20.
Between
the Bliss and Me, a song cycle for soprano and piano,
was sung on Mar. 26, 2000 with Martha Ellison and Ruth
Locker, at The Lyceum, in Alexandria, VA. Sonya Baker,
soprano, and Vicki Berneking, piano, presented
Along
with Me, They Might Not Need Me, and
Wild Nights,
Mar. 23, 2000 at James Madison University, in Harrisonville,
VA. At Valdosta (GA) State University,
I Never Saw
Another Butterfly was performed on Apr. 10, 2000,
with Valerie Fisher, soprano, and John Ferguson, saxophone.
Recordings
Mystery (1997-98),
Echo (1995), and
The
Ballad Singer (1995); all with William Sharp, baritone,
and Laitman, piano; selections from
The Metropolitan
Tower and other songs (1991-1992); Lauren Wagner,
soprano, and Frederick Weldy, piano;
The Love Poems
of Marichiko (1993-94); Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano,
and Thomas Kraines, cello;
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
(1995-96); Wagner, soprano, and Gary Louie, saxophone;
Days and Nights (1994-95); Bryn-Julson, soprano,
and Seth Knopp, piano; all on
Albany
Records Mystery - the Songs of Lori Laitman
TROY 393.
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