Lori Laitman Dreaming - Songs of Lori Laitman Albany Records TROY 570 2003 79 Mins

Check, Jennifer (Soprano) Jones, Warren (Piano) Scarlata, Randall (Baritone) Laitman, Lori (Piano) Gruber, Sari (Soprano) Sharp, William (Baritone) Karr, Gary (Double Bass) Green, Patricia (Mezzo Soprano)

Four Dickinson Songs   1. Will There Really Be A Morning? 1:15   2. I'm Nobody 1:53   3. She Died 2:35   4. If I... 2:22 1996 Check, Jennifer; Jones, Warren Men With Small Heads   5. Men with Small Heads 2:31   6. Refridgerator, 1957 3:45   7. A Small Tin Parrot Pin 1:40   8. Snake Lake 2:42 2000 Scarlata, Randall; Laitman, Lori Sunflowers   9. The Sunflowers 5:29 10. Dreams 4:10 11. Sunrise 4:30 1999 Gruber, Sari; Laitman, Lori Holocaust 1944 Poems about the Holocaust by Ficowski, Vogel, Rosewica, Gershon, and Ranasinghe 12. I Did Not Manage to Save 3:32 13. How Can I See You, Love 2:48 14. Both Your Mothers 8:11 15. What Luck 0:58 16. Massacre of the Boys 3:21 17. Race 2:15 18. Holocaust 1944 6:29 1996-1998 Sharp, William; Karr, Gary The Years 19. Jewels 2:07 20. To-Night 1:28 21. Barter 2:12 22. Faults 0:42 23. The Years 2:03 2001 Green, Patricia; Jones, Warren Plums 24. To a Poor Old Woman, This is Just to Say 2:07 1996 Check, Jennifer; Jones, Warren Between the Bliss and Me 25. I gained it so... 1:52 26. A Book 0:49 27. I could not prove 1:58 1997 Check, Jennifer; Jones, Warren Little Elegy 28. Little Elegy 1:12 Gruber, Sari; Laitman, Lori Dreaming 29. Dreaming 1:51 1991 Check, Jennifer; Jones, Warren; Scarlata, Randall

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Fathers
Poems about the Holocaust by Ranasinghe and Vogel.
Premiered by Music of Remembrance, Benaroya Hall, April 2003.
Baritone/piano trio; baritone/flute/cello/piano.
2002, revised 2003.
About 12 minutes.

Fragment 1; You, Father
Fragment 2; Last Night I Dreamt
Fragment 3; I Saw My Father Drowning; Don't Cry.

I have chosen to set several poems from Vilna ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever (1913 - ), translated by C.K. Williams. The title The Seed of Dream is taken from a line in the poem To My Child, and it refers to Sutzkever’s murdered son. Sutzkever consistently produced poems of great artistry under the most dire of circumstances. These first-person accounts, written between 1941 and 1944, not only bear witness to the destruction around him, but to his undying belief in the beauty of the word and the world.

The world premiere of Laitman’s The Seed of Dream took place on Monday, May 9, 2005 at Music of Remembrance’s Holocaust Remembrance concert (Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA). Melinda Bargreen of the Seattle Times wrote that the performance was "deeply moving", and that "Laitman illuminated the heart-wrenching poems with her music".