The Music of Lori Laitman, now available as PDFs
Within These Spaces — 5 songs for soprano and piano (priced for 2 copies)
SM-000605206
- Composer
- Lori Laitman
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Lyricist
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Marjorie Saiser, Janet Coleman, Judith Sornberger
- Publisher
- Enchanted Knickers Music
- Genre
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Classical / Song
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Soprano
- Scored for
- Solo, Accompanying piano
- Type of score
- Piano-vocal score
- Duration
- 18'0"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Year of composition
- 2002
Description
Within These Spaces sets the poetry of three different Nebraskan women poets —Marjorie Saiser, Janet Coleman and Judith Sornberger. The five poems examine different facets of mother-daughter and grandmother-granddaughter relationships. The title for the cycle, taken from the first poem, works both literally and metaphorically. In the poem itself, the "spaces" are the actual physical spaces once occupied by grandmother and granddaughter. However, in each of these poems, mothers, daughters and granddaughters also share memories and the experience of passing through similar life-cycle events.
You can hear the recording with soprano Sari Gruber and pianist Warren Jones on the Albany CD of the same name.