Lori Laitman is an American composer who has composed multiple operas, choral works, and over 300 songs.
11 Facts About Lori Laitman
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Lori Laitman has received commissions from the BBC, The Royal Philharmonic Society, The Grant Park Music Festival, Opera America, Opera Colorado, Lyric Fest of Philadelphia, Washington Master Chorale, Wolfgang Holzmair and Music of Remembrance.
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Lori Laitman was featured on Thomas Hampson's Song of America radio series and website and interviewed by him on the Idagio platform.
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Lori Laitman is one of four composers on baritone Stephen Powell's 2021 Grammy-nominated CD American Composers at Play.
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Lori Laitman created the opera The Scarlet Letter based on the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Lori Laitman created The Three Feathers children's opera with librettist Dana Gioia, based on a Grimm's fairy tale.
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Lori Laitman created The Three Feathers, her second children's opera with librettist Dana Gioia.
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Lori Laitman received a 2015 Centennial Commission from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with Music Director Marin Alsop for an orchestral piece to celebrate the BSO's 100th anniversary.
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Lori Laitman has devoted much of her career to the art song, and her ability to meld words with lyrical, often soaring lines is on abundant display in her opera.
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Every facet of Lori Laitman's genius is on vivid display here, but the disk especially celebrates her bountiful, wide-ranging imagination.
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In 2022 Lori Laitman started making films of her art songs in conjunction with Positive Note in the UK.