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  • Meet Composer Melissa Dunphy (and hear about her setting of Walt Whitman)

    April 3, 2019

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    I had an extremely good time chatting it up with composer Melissa Dunphy about all things Melissa/Whitman/Colonial Philadelphia…and I even got to be privy to the privy! (You can hear about that in the lagniappe section of the interview.) Melissa is one of the 11 composers commissioned by LF for Carol of Words – Walt…
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  • Bryan Hymel, Irini Kyriakidou & Laura Ward in Conversation

    April 25, 2018

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    Lyric Fest’s Co-Artistic Director and pianist Laura Ward engages in a wide-ranging conversation with international opera stars, tenor Bryan Hymel and soprano Irini Kyriakidou. Their concert features music by Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Composer-in-Residence Benjamin C.S. Boyle and operatic favorites. Join us for this grand finale to Lyric Fest’s 15th-anniversary season! Premium seating and elegant reception at…
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  • Podcast: Daron Hagen

    December 25, 2017

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    Composer Daron Hagen recently collaborated with Lyric Fest on a fascinating new Naxos CD, 21st-Century Song Cycles. He talks about the album, life as a composer, poetry, writing songs and much more….
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