Lori Laitman – Past Concerts

MOR returns to the concert hall with this special free concert featuring some of their most exciting repertoire. Featuring new songs by Lori Laitman & Tom Cipullo; cabaret songs from Terezín; & more.

Pavel Haas – String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7 "From the Monkey Mountains" (mvt. 4) (1925)
Lori Laitman – “Memories of Prague” from Vedem (2010)
Paul Schoenfield – “Black Boehm” from Camp Songs (2002)
Viktor Ullmann – Choral arrangements of Yiddish songs (Terezin, 1942)
Joel Engel – The Dybbuk Suite, Op. 35 (1922)
Tom Cipullo – Excerpts from After Life (2015)
Jake Heggie – "Farewell, Auschwitz" from Out of Darkness (2016)

This all-ages opera explores a classic tale from a fresh perspective, accompanying a young woman on the adventure of a lifetime as she discovers her hidden strengths and gains confidence.

Featuring chamber music written in Terezín and the Vilna ghetto, and works by composers whose lives were cut short by Nazi persecution.

Longtime friends perform diverse works by today's best and brightest: Alexandra T. Bryant, Pierre Jalbert, Guillaume Connesson, Lori Laitman, and Carlisle Floyd.

Lori Laitman – Four Dickinson Songs
Sibelius – The Swan of Tuonela
Schumann – From Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12
Ravel – Mother Goose Suite, piano, four hands
Nikita Koshkin – Usher Waltz
Franz Liszt – Sposalizio 

A moving oratorio based on the words of teenage prisoners in the Terezín concentration camp.

In celebration of the 185th anniversary of Emily Dickinson's birth, a recital of songs setting Dickinson's poetry to music, as well as solo piano compositions by her contemporaries.

In honor of National Poetry Month at the West Seattle Library, hear “Dickinson Poetry in Song" as well as poems set to music by Copland, Laitman and others.

Featuring works by two American and two Israeli composers whose work touch on the emotional struggle of loss and destruction, and the renewal of self and community.

Erwin Schulhoff – String Quartet No. 2 (1925) Laszlo Weiner – Duo for Violin and Viola (1939) Lori Laitman – In Sleep the World Is Yours (2014)