The Music of Lori Laitman, now available as PDFs
This Space Available — for contralto and piano (priced for 2 copies)
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- Composer
- Lori Laitman
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Lyricist
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Thomas Lux
- Publisher
- Enchanted Knickers Music
- Genre
-
Classical / Song
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Contralto
- Scored for
- Solo, Accompanying piano
- Type of score
- Piano-vocal score
- Duration
- 3'30"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Year of composition
- 2000
Description
I set this Thomas Lux poem in 2000 as a present for mezzo-soprano Karyn Friedman and her husband, bass Gary Poster. The song is divided into two corresponding sections, delineated by low piano clusters which represent “inky black and awkward marks.” Musical exchanges between voice and piano highlight the opening and closing, while a rhapsodic mood accompanies Lux’s ruminations about a blank page.
You can hear the premiere recording on Spotify on my Becoming a Redwood CD.