The Music of Lori Laitman, now available as PDFs
Becoming a Redwood - for soprano and piano (priced for 2 copies of the score)
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- Composer
- Lori Laitman
-
Lyricist
-
Dana Gioia
- Publisher
- Enchanted Knickers Music
- Genre
-
Classical / Song
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Soprano
- Scored for
- Solo, Accompanying piano
- Type of score
- Piano-vocal score
- Duration
- 13'0"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Difficult
- Year of composition
- 2003
Description
Becoming a Redwood was composed between August - November 2003 as a 50th birthday present for my husband. The Song is loosely based on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) and the remaining three poems by Dana Gioia (1950- ) reflect on love, death, and healing. I recorded it with soprano Barbara Quintiliani on my "Becoming a Redwood" CD — available online. You can hear the songs on YouTube.