Good luck to Austin Community College's Opera Workshop and Blythe Cates, for this weekend's upcoming performance of Maya and the Magic Ring! Wish I could be there! #childrensopera #newopera #melody
Posts by Lori Laitman
In honor of Yom HaShoah: Music of Remembrance's 2026 Art from Ashes concert, including a performance of Vedem, my Holocaust oratorio with David Mason.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqnO...
In honor of Yom HaShoah: Wertheim Park, commissioned by Music of Remembrance:
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So honored by this wonderful article about my music from Justin Vickers! substack.com/inbox/post/1...
What a pleasure to host Vocal Arts DC and Sparks & Wiry Cries' first DC SongSlam. Hats off to everyone. First Prize: Ashi Day for "Sea Burial" (Millay); Second: David Fisher for "Treating a Blister" (Fisher); Third:Peter Dayton for "Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink" (Millay).
Today at 1 pm Eastern, WETA's Viva La Voce will be airing my interview about my Vedem oratorio with Bill Bukowski.
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Another beautiful new song/video from my husband Bruce Rosenblum! youtube.com/watch?v=_n9W-gd8yq4&fbclid=IwY2xjawRDTaFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe4sRj2vtvIZfkZTQKIefmKH2FQu7bXZ33ac4Ce5NdHnYLvAh81ErOJPWtB0o_aem_t2XmqDDWdQGu2JA9dxYaNA
Excited about 2 upcoming performances of my 2 operas with Dana Gioia -- The Three Feathers and Maya and the Magic Ring!
So thrilled with the artwork for Maya and the Magic Ring poster created by the amazing Lorenzo Fazzini! Lyric Opera of Orange County will be able to use this for their May 9th production!
Had a wonderful time doing a masterclass on my songs today for Sherry Overholt's students at Queens College!
Congratulations to Seth Parker Woods, Conor Hanick, Julia Bullock and Andrew Rosenblum on the release of this beautiful CD. [Andrew is my youngest, so I'm a proud mom.]
New editions of Money (to Dana Gioia's poem) are now available for PDF download (accessible through artsongs.com). Hard copies are available from Classical Vocal Reprints.
If you have an earlier edition, please PM for a complimentary update.
PDF copies of Mrs. First Lady, my first collaboration with Mark Campbell, are now up on my MusicaNeo site, accessible on my website artsongs.com. The work premiered in December 2025, with Katie Hannigan (who commissioned it) and pianist Tze-Wen Julia Lin.
Here's a beautiful rendition of my setting of Margaret Atwood's "I Was Reading a Scientific Article" — with Kitty Whately and Simon Lepper.
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I had such a great time speaking with Doug Grimm and Benjamin South on their Toi Toi Tipsy podcast!
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New editions (tenor and soprano) of my 2008 song cycle On The Green Trail (which was commissioned by Michelle Latour to 3 poems of Jeff Gundy) and are now on artsongs.com or contact Classical Vocal Reprints for hard copies.
Delighted that Jeanai La Vita and Adam Kent will be performing my work on this March 21 concert in NYC, and again on Jeanai's recital on May 4th. So wish I could be there!
Had a great Zoom with Laura Dixon Strickling — we discussed my song cycle Daughters, to be performed by Laura and Chiarina Chamber Players on 3.15.26 in DC.
Just released — a beautiful recording of Rachmaninoff's Sonata for Cello and Piano — with Seth Parker Woods (cello) and Andrew Rosenblum (piano). Here's a link to the Andante.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FVF...
(Andrew is my youngest son:))