Author Archives: Lyric Fest
Review of the Rosetta Stone concert
Tom Purdom published a review in the Broad Street Review of the last concert of our 10th Anniversary Season. His very first sentence nicely captures the uniqueness of Lyric Fest: Lyric Fest never does anything quite the way anyone else … Continue reading
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Program of our upcoming Rosetta Stone concert
The next Lyric Fest concert, the last of our 10th Anniversary Season, is scheduled for Sunday May 5 at 3 pm at the Academy of Vocal Arts. The concert includes songs composed in a language other than the native language … Continue reading
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Big Congratulations to Bryan Hymel
Tenor Bryan Hymel, who sang in three Lyric Fest concerts between 2006 and 2008 (see our Archives) received today the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Beverly Sills award. This award is given once a year to a vocalist between 25 and 40 … Continue reading
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Second review of Journey Toward Freedom
Lewis Whittington reviewed our March 3 concert in ConcertoNet.com. Some choice excerpts from the review: “Lyric Fest designs concerts with scope and historical significance so well that it often results in uniquely vital programming. Earlier this year, their single performance of … Continue reading
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Review of Journey Toward Freedom in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Lyric Fest is deeply grateful to all who brought the History of the Civil Rights to our audiences for Journey Toward Freedom at the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia! The roof was raised by these amazing performers: Denyce Graves Lisa … Continue reading
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Review of A New Journey Into Song
David Patrick Stearns published in philly.com a review of Sunday’s concert with the world premieres of the commissioned song cycles by Andrea Clearfield and Daron Hagen. Read all about it for his incisive reaction to the compositional styles of the … Continue reading
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Kile Smith’s reaction to our second Winterreise concert
Composer Kile Smith has a wonderful reaction to yesterday’s concert. Read what he had to say to find out what made him shudder! (In a good way.) Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell … Continue reading
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Finding our Winterreise posts
Co-founding artistic director Suzanne DuPlantis created an excellent series of posts on the songs of Die Winterreise by Schubert, starting at the end of 2012 and ending right before our concert of Die Winterreise. We have collected all these posts into one … Continue reading
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Interview with Andrea Clearfield
Andrea Clearfield was commissioned by Lyric Fest to compose a work for Lyric Fest’s 10th Anniversary Season. We thank John and Sandi so much for their generous support in making this possible. Andrea had a packed day at Yaddo Artist … Continue reading
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A nice web discovery on Winterreise
As our Winterreise concert double-feature comes closer, and amid our stream of daily posts about the individual songs of Winterreise, we are delighted to share this English translation of the songs of the songs, appearing in a great web site … Continue reading
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