Concert Blog Series

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  • Corona Chronicles – World Music

    April 20, 2020

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    World Music I have a new definition of world music. It’s the music of the stories that make the world a smaller place. So it was that the world became smaller for me this week, when I set out into a vast web of images, in search of just the right ones for a new…
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  • The Enchanted Flute – A Song Blog

    February 18, 2020

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    William Bolcom and The New Cabaret Part 1 I don’t know how it could be that we haven’t delved into the Cabaret Songs of William Bolcom before now. Chalk it up to the inexhaustible world of song. (Truly, a lifetime is not enough…) In case you haven’t encountered William Bolcom, do allow me a quick…
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  • THE ART OF SONG – Daron Hagen – A Song Blog

    November 2, 2019

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    The ensemble for THE ART OF SONG – by Daron Hagen. World Premiere * Over time, art forms evolve and reconfigure. Sometimes it’s like twisting a kaleidoscope one half inch to the right, and other times you just put the kaleidoscope down. I have to say, I think it’s exhilarating to be in the middle…
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  • Lyric Fest seeks Managing Director

    October 23, 2019

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    Lyric Fest seeks a Managing Director to work alongside its Co-Artistic Directors and together, the Managing Director and Founding Co-Artistic Directors will collaborate as partners to lead artists, staff, the Board and the community in realizing Lyric Fest’s mission: to bring people together through the shared experience of song by offering to diverse audiences lively,…
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  • THE ART OF SONG – Daron Hagen – A Song Blog

    October 18, 2019

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    SCORE FOR THE WIN! There is a lot of note learning and text studying going on now as the singers and pianists are preparing to premiere Daron Hagen’s new song cycle, The Art of Song.   Here is how it goes. You’re a singer, say. You get the new score  – you may have gotten…
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  • 2019/20 SEASON PRESS RELEASE

    August 1, 2019

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Suzanne DuPlantis suzanne@lyricfest.org 215 432 5946 Lyric Fest announces its 17th Anniversary Season – 2019/20 Beautifully curated, multi-faceted concerts of song Lyric Fest celebrates its 17th Anniversary with 7 distinct thematic programs and 15 performances in Philadelphia and its suburbs, New Jersey, New York and California. Lyric Fest’s concerts are…
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  • WHITMAN SONG BLOG – AMERICA, SINGING

    June 9, 2019

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      2. AMERICA, SINGING by Gilda Lyons For Carol of Words Gilda Lyons created an ensemble using almost all our forces. It’s a trio for mezzo, tenor and baritone with violin, double bass and piano. It is “America, Singing.”   This is a piece with a lot of gravitas. One that makes space for deep…
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  • WHITMAN SONG BLOG – We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d

    May 26, 2019

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    1. We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d – Glen Roven Time to share the fruits of our labor – Walt Whitman’s, Glen Roven’s, Laura Ward-Jimmy Reese-Keith Phares’s, and Lyric Fest’s, too.   What with our Whitman CAROL OF WORDS now a month behind us and with Whitman’s actual birthday approaching on May 31st, what…
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  • GERSHWIN Life-in-a-nutshell

    May 16, 2019

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    Here’s Gershwin in a nutshell, so you can be ready for the concert tonite!   GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898-1937) – a short story George Gershwin made his considerable mark on American music in two short decades of composing. Such was the time he was allotted on this earth. His parents were Jewish immigrants who fled the…
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  • Denyce Graves Fundraiser

    April 9, 2019

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    Lyric Fest invites your support for “An Intimate Evening with Denyce Graves for Song and Conversation” Denyce Graves and Laura Ward will premiere the new song cycle that Denyce herself commissioned by John Conahan: “Notes from Robert” Thursday, May 2, 2019 from 7-9PM hosted by Carole Haas Gravagno 560 Maplewood Road, Wayne, PA 19087 Our…
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  • THE MORE THE MERRIER – A Song Blog

    February 26, 2019

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    PART 1   If there is something inherently joyful about singing, I can tell you, that joy is multiplied exponentially when you sing duets and trios with friends. And this, friends, is the charm of our upcoming program, THE MORE THE MERRIER.   We start with Mozart, of course, the merriest of them all, who,…
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  • SONGS FROM THE TUNDRA – Song Blog in Retrospect

    February 3, 2019

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    While the weather ’round us is still tundral, (and since, coincidentally, the sound files from our recording engineer were just delivered) I thought I’d share a few songs from our concert. So here, friends, is a gift for this frigid day: the two final pieces from Songs from the Tundra… Now, sometimes you just have…
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