Laura Kaminsky is the composer of the opera As One, which has become one of the most performed operas since it premiered in 2014. Her music is many-faceted, with dissonance and harmony, as well as rhythmically interesting moments.

Laura's works can be purchased through Bill Holab Music.

Recordings featured in this episode, performed by Toni Marie Palmertree, soprano, and Ellen Rissinger, pianist:

• Whitman Songs
  • To a Stranger
• Five Songs of Fauset and Grimké
  • Your Hands
  • Words! Words!
  • Fragment

Recorded at Morningstar Studios in Norristown, PA.

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