The Music of Lori Laitman, now available as PDFs
When You Are Old - for soprano and piano (priced for 2 copies)
SM-000482174
- Composer
- Lori Laitman
-
Lyricist
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William Butler Yeats
- Publisher
- Enchanted Knickers Music
- Genre
-
Classical / Song
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Soprano
- Scored for
- Solo, Accompanying piano
- Type of score
- Piano-vocal score
- Duration
- 3'20"
- Language
- English
- Year of composition
- 2017
Description
I composed this song as birthday gifts for my two sisters — Marcie Susan Kotler and Lynn Laitman Siebert — and my brothers-in-law Morris Kotler and Donald Siebert. I began work in April 2017, sketching the vocal line and harmonies, anhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jcKCdt7R5sd returned to flesh out the song in November 2017. The lyrical vocal line floats atop the piano, whose harmonies and textures provide additional commentary on the text. I premiered the work with soprano Maureen McKay at PianoCraft in Gaithersburg, MD on October 10, 2018.
You can watch the premiere on YouTube at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jcKCdt7R5s