The Music of Lori Laitman, now available as PDFs
Orange Afternoon Lover - for mezzo-soprano and piano (priced for 2 copies)
SM-000381580
- Composer
- Lori Laitman
-
Lyricist
-
Mary Oliver
- 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
- Year of composition
- 2006
Description
These songs were jointly commissioned by The Howard Hanson Fund of The Eastman School and The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University for soprano Eileen Strempel and pianist Sylvie Beaudette. This commission was part of a larger project of Eileen’s and Sylvie’s, in which they asked several women composers to set the poetry of Margaret Atwood, with the subsequent CD “Inhabitation: Musical Settings of Margaret Atwood,” released on Centaur Records in 2010.
I was free to choose the poetry, and decided on these three poems so as to create a story line about a love affair, from the initial excitement to the emptiness felt at the end.
Here's a link to view a performance with soprano Maureen McKay and pianist/composer Lori Laitman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv3i4W4vu64