New video from my brilliant husband Bruce Rosenblum: www.youtube.com/watch?v=guAr...

Today is the deadline for applying to the NATS Composer Mentoring Program. www.nats.org/Mentoring_Pr...

So honored, and looking forward to this: www.pomona.edu/events?trumb...

So excited about this upcoming concert! www.phillipscollection.org/event/2025-1...

Documenting the creative mess as I create the first draft of the piano accompaniment to Daniel Belcher’s cycle. The wonderful poem is by Joyce Sutphen. #howthesausagegetsmade

Now available: PDF downloads of my new edition of The Throwback, my 2003 cycle which sets the poetry of Paul Muldoon. Links to the recording with the always-wonderful William Sharp and sheet music are here: www.artsongs.com/work/the-thr... Classical Vocal Reprints will sell the hard copies.

Soon — The Three Feathers (abridged version) at West Chester University! ramcardcenter.vbotickets.com/event/The_Th...

Deadline is October 3 at midnight. www.nats.org/Mentoring_Pr...

Looking forward to another great year! www.nats.org/cgi/page.cgi...

Honored to have been interviewed by brin solomon for The Yale Alumni Magazine!

From April 1, 1996: My original sketch for "If I..." — the last of my "Four Dickinson Songs".

youtu.be/75IYuiFxyLk?... So appreciative of this beautiful performance of my song Tableau, from my song cycle Sable Pride, which sets the amazing poetry of Countee Cullen. My song starts at 28:24.

Thrilled! www.instagram.com/reel/DNqpVEJ...

I've created 2 new arrangements of my 2013 Holocaust-themed song cycle "In Sleep The World Is Yours" — one for soprano/soprano saxophone and piano; and one for soprano/tenor saxophone and piano. Available for download on artsongs.com. Classical Vocal Reprints will sell the hard copies.

Happy that my piece is included in this interesting feature! www.wfmt.com/2025/08/05/s...

Wonderful meeting this afternoon with Sam Martin and Katie Leemhuis, who are recording my cycle "The Imaginary Photo Album" for their next CD:)

So pleased that Vedem will be reprised with Music of Remembrance this coming January! www.musicalamerica.com/news/newssto...

Working, working, working on creating the sheet music of the stand-alone arias from Act I of Ludlow. Here's a combo aria — Out of the Rockfolds/I Barely Remember from Act I, with Daniel Belcher, Maureen McKay and Andrew Rosenblum: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsNB...

A wonderful talk from my longstanding collaborator Dana Gioia — www.youtube.com/watch?v=V__t...

Ludlow update progress — I'm busy inputting changes to the fleshing out of Act II. This is the squishy part of the layout process of Finale.

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Thrilled that Tableua, from my Sable Pride cycle (settings of Countee Cullen) is included in this wonderful recital! www.choosechicago.com/event/dame-m...

Now up on YouTube — from my Holocaust 1944 song cycle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qop6...

Documenting the creative mess as I write and rewrite Act II of Ludlow, my opera about immigration. These words by David Mason unfortunately ring true: "We've let too many strangers come inside. America's a Tower of Babel now..."

Nice to see the hard copy!

Hope you can listen to Andrew Harrison and Jason Lo's absolutely gorgeous rendition of my piece Journey, for alto saxophone and piano. Very grateful! open.spotify.com/track/3mdU4g...

Still refining Act I of Ludlow, note by note. Or in the words of the incomparable Steven Sondheim — Bit by bit, putting it together, piece by piece....Then fleshing out Act II (and then writing Act III). An opera about immigration is more timely than ever. open.spotify.com/track/0Wfpjr...

Delighted that The Three Feathers will be done next November by the West Chester University Opera Theatre!

"Dear Mrs. First Lady" to Mark Campbell's touching poem, is done! Katie Hannigan commissioned 10 new songs to 10 new poems, about The Emergency Refugee Camp at Fort Ontario in Oswego, and these will premiere in November 2025 in Rochester.

My new opera catalogs have arrived (also available online). If interested, please PM.

Documenting the creative mess as I work on a new commission for mezzo-soprano Katie Hannigan — my first collaboration with Mark Campbell!

I asked ChatGPT to generate an XML file of a song in the style of Lori Laitman. This is what I got. Relieved that my livelihood is not yet endangered by AI.

Thanks for the interview, Canvas Rebel! canvasrebel.com/meet-lori-la...

My opera catalog has been updated, hope you can take a look on www.artsongs.com — the link is on the homepage.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mML... Still one of my all-time favorite videos from my husband, a collaboration with our grandson Edward from a few years back. The song won the Gold Medal prize in the Children's Division of the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest.

A new version of Journey is now available for tenor sax and piano. PDFs downloads are available from my artsongs.com site and hard copies from Classical Vocal Reprints.

www.artsongs.com/news-posts/t... #newopera #womencomposers #melody #comicopera

On Yom HaShoah, we remember the six million Jews and millions of others killed during the Holocaust. Let the memory of those who were murdered serve as our calling to combat antisemitism and hate.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day for 2025. Here's a link to my first Holocaust-themed composition, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, composed in 1995, which set the poetry of children killed in the Holocaust. www.artsongs.com/work/i-never... #NeverAgain #memoryisouronlyshield

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025, I am sharing my composition Wertheim Park, to Susan De Sola Rodstein's haunting poem. The work was commissioned by Music of Remembrance and premiered online with Alisa Jordheim, soprano. www.artsongs.com/work/werthei... #Neverforget #Neveragain

"A new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism" 😳

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

#GVerse #LFG #ListenUp: Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.bsky.social finally saying it out loud. We are on our own. It is up to us. And it’s close to time to take to the streets. Repost!!!

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Trump’s State Department found no evidence linking Rumeysa Ozturk to antisemitic activity or terrorism, but ICE snatched her off the street and dispatched her to a prison 1,000 miles away with no hearing. This is a hallmark of fascist regimes and utterly incompatible with Due Process.

Another wonderful video from Lyric Opera of Kansas City! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn9q...

Lyric Opera of Kansas City has released another video, weaving in some of the videos I took to document my progress as I was writing Maya and the Magic Ring. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC8-...

Thank you, Yale School of Music, for this nice feature!

www.artsongs.com/news-posts/l... #newmusic #melody #teamartsong