Discipline: Music Composition

Lawrence Siegel

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Westmoreland, NH
MacDowell Fellowships: 1984, 1986, 1991

Lawrence Siegel is a composer, theater artist, traditional musician, and creator of a wide range of music through collaboration and innovation. In the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, he has focused many of his creative energies on his little patch of ground: the Monadnock Region of Southwestern New Hampshire. For over 25 years, leading his own unique Verbatim Project, he has facilitated and empowered groups to create original music-theater performances with their own voice: from the quirks of life in small New England towns, to the painful telling of the Holocaust story through his acclaimed oratorio, Kaddish. Lawrence Siegel has received numerous awards and critical acclaim for his compositions. As a three-time recipient of the Performing Arts Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, he was inducted as a Lifetime Fellow in 2013.

Studios

Monday Music

Lawrence Siegel worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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