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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This CD from my husband is PHENOMENAL! #FYC

Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Wonderful meeting today with Dan Norman and Ian Archie Beck, as we discussed the next films in my art song series with Positive Note.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And Bonaco Song 4 — Oblivion — is done. On to the next one.... The hope displayed by these girls imprisoned in Terezin is inspiring: "inhale the mild fragrance of the blossoming heather, and then you will understand..." — by Desirée, translated by Timothy Cheek.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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).

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Excited about 2 upcoming performances of my 2 operas with Dana Gioia -- The Three Feathers and Maya and the Magic Ring!

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

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!

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Had a wonderful time doing a masterclass on my songs today for Sherry Overholt's students at Queens College!

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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.]

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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!

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

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.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Thrilled that I will be presenting at the National Opera Association's New Work Expo at the national conference in Boston, along with my librettist Leah Lax and director Beth Greenberg!

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

My new edition of Homeless — for either mezzo or baritone with piano — is now available as a PDF download. Links to the score are available on www.artsongs.com. #artsong #newmusic

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Gift — for all voice types with piano — is now available as a PDF download. Links are on my www.artsongs.com page.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Wonderful first day of residency with the music students at @pomonacollege.bsky.social

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Documenting the creative mess as I create the first draft of the piano accompaniment to Daniel Belcher’s cycle. The wonderful poem is by Joyce Sutphen. #howthesausagegetsmade

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Now available: PDF downloads of my new edition of The Throwback, my 2003 cycle which sets the poetry of Paul Muldoon. Links to the recording with the always-wonderful William Sharp and sheet music are here: www.artsongs.com/work/the-thr... Classical Vocal Reprints will sell the hard copies.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Honored to have been interviewed by brin solomon for The Yale Alumni Magazine!

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

From April 1, 1996: My original sketch for "If I..." — the last of my "Four Dickinson Songs".

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Wonderful meeting this afternoon with Sam Martin and Katie Leemhuis, who are recording my cycle "The Imaginary Photo Album" for their next CD:)

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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..."

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Thank you, Yale School of Music, for this nice feature!

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

More wonderful Maya and the Magic Ring photos by Andrew Schwartz for Lyric Opera of Kansas City

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Maya and the Magic Ring, commissioned by Lyric Opera of Kansas City, premieres at the Polsky Theatre in Overland Park, KS today! Here's a clip from the Genie's aria — Nobody Trusts a Genie (thanks, Dana Gioia for the libretto)...featuring the wonderful artists Luke Harnish and Bethany Jelinek.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Now available for PDF download - my new choral work, Standing at the Edge – recently commissioned and premiered by the Washington National Opera Chorus. PDFs are available through my site at MusicaNeo (accessible through artsongs.com).

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thrilled to be an Artist-in-Residence this week at @unlvmusic. Looking forward to working with the great students and faculty and looking forward to their production of The Three Feathers this coming weekend!

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Thanks to my colleague, @jeffreyryancomp.bsky.social for final judging the NATS Art Song Composition Contest with me. We had fun discussing all the wonderful entries — and we were totally on the same page regarding the decision! Announcement will be forthcoming.

Thanks to my colleague, @jeffreyryancomposer, for final judging the @NATS Art Song Composition Contest with me. We had fun discussing all the wonderful entries — and we were totally on the same page! Announcement will be forthcoming.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Presence, which sets a haunting poem by Marcia Menter, is now available for PDF download — links are on my artsongs.com site — along with the premiere recording by Katie Leemhuis and Sam Martin. Classical Vocal Reprints will sell the hard copies.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

www.artsongs.com/work/swimmer... PDF downloads now available — and Classical Vocal Reprints will sell the hard copies.

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Wonderful to catch up today with Martin Hennessy! Yay, #newmusic

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Lori Laitman @vocalcomposer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

New editions of my 2002 cycle setting the poems of the late Maine poet C.G.R. Shepard are now available for PDF download on MusicaNeo (accessible through my artsongs.com site). Classical Vocal Reprints will sell the hard copies. #artsong #songs #womencomposers

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