the music
The Seed of Dream
Music by Lori Laitman (b. 1955)
Poetry by Avraham Sutzkever
Translated by C.K. Williams and Leonard Wolf
Commissioned byThe Music of Remembrance Organization in Seattle
First Performed in May 2005 at Benaroya Hall in Seattle
Concert Date: January 28, 2008
Click here to read a recent interview with Lori Laitman by Artistic Director Janelle McCoy.
Click here for ticket information.
Poetry by Avraham Sutzkever
Translated by C.K. Williams and Leonard Wolf
Commissioned byThe Music of Remembrance Organization in Seattle
First Performed in May 2005 at Benaroya Hall in Seattle
Concert Date: January 28, 2008
Click here to read a recent interview with Lori Laitman by Artistic Director Janelle McCoy.
Click here for ticket information.
"This cycle is indeed a masterpiece that should not be missed!”
–Sharon Mabry, The Journal of Singing
About this work
Originally scored for baritone, cello and piano, "The Seed of Dream" set several poems of the Vilna Ghetto survivor Avraham Sutzkever (b. 1913). Four of the five poems were translated by Pulitzer Prize winning poet C.K. Williams, while "Beneath the Whiteness of Your Stars" was translated by Leonard Wolf.
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. -Lori Laitman
Performed in English and Yiddish.
