Deadmall Ballads - Hilliard and Boresi

Lyric Fest Movie Now Streaming On Demand

Deadmall Ballads – a seriocomic song cycle about the life cycle of the American shopping mall. Offered in a new vision with video antics by Lyric Fest, this song-movie features the brilliant score / libretto of Hilliard and Boresi, brought to full hilarity and poignance by the artist who inspired the work, Jennifer Aylmer. Deadmall Ballads was originally premiered by LF in 2022 by Jennifer Aylmer and Laura Ward and was then studio recorded for our movie.

“[With] original, bluesy-driven penetrating music… composed by Peter Hilliard with idiosyncratic words by Matt Boresi… Deadmall Ballads has a clear story arc built around nine colorful songs about a dying shopping mall. The listener is taken on a journey not unlike Dante’s Inferno."

-D.C. Metro Theatre Arts

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Raehann Bryce- Davis,  Photo: Donato Valentino

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Lyric Fest is a place to experience the unique power of the human voice in song. We bring together great singers, composers, history, biography, and humor. Here we tell our stories in song.

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2024-2025 Season

2024-2025 Season

September

Play a Simple Melody

The Historic Songs of Tin Pan Alley

28 & 29

February

The Soul of the City

Urban living in the best and worst of times

22 & 23

April

Everything Old is New Again

Antique songs in modern garb

5 & 6

Here's What's Happening Right Now

Women Composers, Women Poets

Nevertheless, She Sang

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”  - Virginia Woolf

IMPORTANT TIME CHANGE  Saturday's concert at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church has been changed to 5pm. Despite a lack of opportunity, female composers were not, in fact, silent... Hear the remarkable blossoming of art and expression, when women take up the verse of women and write the songs they want to write. With Christine Lyons, Caroline R. Olsen, Laura Strickling, and Laura Ward, piano. Songs and Poems by Anonymous and also – Clarisse Assad, Naomi Major, Lori Laitman, Anne Spencer Lindbergh, Florence Price, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Andrea Clearfield, Charlotte Mew, Margaret Bonds Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nikita Gill, Melissa Dunphy, Amy Beach  - Cora Fabbri, Amy Lowell, Juliana Hall, Liza Lehman, Rose Fyleman, Jennifer Higdon, Clara Schumann - Friedericke Serre, Rene Orth - Jeanne Minahan, Joni Mitchell, Gladys Rich, Libby Larsen, Calamity Jane, Juhi Bansal, Julie Baber, Gilda Lyons Christina Rosetti…
Where
When
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church - Sanctuary
November 16, 2024 @ 5:00 pm
The First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia
November 17, 2024 @ 3:00 pm