The Music of Lori Laitman, now available as PDFs
Are Women People? (priced for 11 copies of the score)
SM-000284157
- Alternative title
- The Power to Vote
- Composer
- Lori Laitman
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Lyricist
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Alice Duer Miller, Susan B. Anthony
- Publisher
- Enchanted Knickers Music
- Genre
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Classical / Vocal music
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Mixed choir
- Scored for
- Quartet, 1 piano, 4 hands
- Type of score
- Full score
- Movement(s)
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1 to 8 from 8
- Duration
- 15'0"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Difficult
- Year of composition
- 2017
Description
Are Women People? is a song cycle for SATB Vocal Quartet and Piano four hands. It was commissioned by the Hanson Institute for American Music at the Eastman School of Music and the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote in New York State.
The work sets the poetry of Alice Duer Miller, excerpts from a Susan B. Anthony speech, and The 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The cycle can be performed by by one or two vocal quartets (if two, they should join together for the last piece), and is approximately 15 minutes in length. The cycle also contains an excerptable a cappella cycle, entitled The Power To Vote.