Public Radio conference and subsequently published in Chamber Music magazine in 1999. Lauten's opera Waking in New York, written on poems by her late friend Allen Ginsberg, was presented by the New York City Opera VOX and Friends 2004, after being released on 4Tay in 2003. Smoothly suave but with a gentle rock beat, the work pioneered a mixture of genres by combining vocal soloists from three styles: classical, Broadway, and gospel. OrfReo, an opera for Baroque ensemble, was premiered at Merkin Hall by the Queen's Chamber Band, who also included Lauten's The Architect in their CD New Music Alive (Capstone, 2004). OrfReo was released on CD in December 2004 (Studio 21). In 2004, she was composer-in-residence at Hope College (in Michigan). Her Symphony 2001 was premiered in February 2003 by the SEM Orchestra in New York. Lauten was the 2014 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts' Robert Rauschenberg Award. Personal life Genevieve adopted the name "Elodie" after moving to the United States and took the surname Lauten from her first husband. That marriage ended in divorce, as did her second, to Carl Karas. She had no children. Death Lauten died in Beth Israel Hospital, Manhattan, aged 63, from cancer. Works Chamber music Links, solo flute, 2004 The Wish of the Quickening Moon, string quartet, 2003 Sex and Pre-Anti-Post Modernism, contrabass/voice, setting of text by Michael Andre, 2002 T.E.V.B. (The Elusive Virgin Bachelor), trio (piano, violin, cello), 2002 Space-Time Sextet, string sextet (3 violins, viola, cello, contrabass), 2001 Mantra, vocal sextet, 2001 American Dreamscape, solo piano, 2000 Lunaticity, Baroque ensemble, 1999 Prophecy, solo viola, 1999 Irrational Synergies, baritone, flute, clarinet, saxophone, cello; setting of poems by Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, commissioned by The Lark Ascending, 1998 Discombobulations, electronic, electric guitar, flute, and soprano, lyrics by Steven Hall, 1997 Variations on the Orange Cycle, solo piano, 1991 Concerto for Piano and Orchestral Memory, piano, tape, synthesizer, cello, trombone, violin, viola, 1984 Dance The Soundless Sound, electronic, 2004 She-Wolf, electronic (Fairlight computer), 1987 Oedipus Rex, electronic/computer (Fairlight), 1984 Operas and cycles The Death of Don Juan, revision of 1985 opera, 2005 Orfreo, soprano, mezzo, countertenor, baritone, and Baroque orchestra: harpsichord, string quartet, oboe, flute, contrabass; libretto by Michael Andre, commissioned by Harpsichord Unlimited, 2004 Waking in New York, baritone, soprano, mezzo, full orchestra, libretto by Allen Ginsberg, 2004 Waking in New York, soprano, mezzo, baritone, string quartet, flute,