Concert Blog Series

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  • We Pulled Each Other Closer in the Turn

    August 31, 2014

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    Today I start a blog post series on the commissions composed for Lyric Fest’s DEAR MARCH – COME IN! –  American Female Poets in Song. I’ll do one song per post. LF gave a third performance of this concert in July and we have some video to share, so please enjoy…. American Female Poets Songbook…
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  • Our 2014-15 brochure

    August 20, 2014

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    Our beautiful brochure for the coming season is ready and will be mailed out soon. Here’s your advanced preview (PDF): Lyric Fest Brochure 2014
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  • A glimpse of the 2014/15 season

    July 21, 2014

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    Lyric Fest announces its 2014/15 Season of Concerts. Check out this exciting season and order tickets now. Early Bird Specials available; more information on this coming soon. Here’s to you, here’s to song! Vienna, City of Songs Much Ado about Shakespeare Waxing Poetic I’ll make me a World In addition, we have two other performances:…
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  • One more performance of Dear March — Come In

    May 16, 2014

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    Lyric Fest is presenting “Dear March–Come In–American Women Poets in Song” in Princeton, New Jersey. The performance is Tuesday, July 15, 7:30 PM, in the Bristol Chapel on Westminster College’s campus (this campus map shows it as building number 6; there are also directions to the campus). This concert is presented as part of the…
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  • Tom Purdom reviews Dear March — Come In

    April 5, 2014

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    Tom Purdom reviewed in the Broad Street Review our end-of-season concert Dear March — Come In. As ever, we encourage you to read the entire text of the review at the preceding link, but here are some excerpts to whet your appetite.  It was, in short, a typical Lyric Fest variety show. If you weren’t…
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  • Review of Dear March — Come In by David Patrick Stearns

    April 1, 2014

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    Inquirer Classical Music Critic David Patrick Stearns reviewed our Dear March — Come In — American Women Poets in Song program. Some excerpts follow (as always, we encourage you to read the whole review at the link).  … the concert wasn’t really a gender study but a cross-section of American song … It took current composers to…
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  • Poetry: ‘Tis for thee, John Timpane says

    March 29, 2014

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    Inquirer staff writer John Timpane has an article on philly.com today that celebrates poetry, in the context of April (poetry month) and Philly Poetry Day (April 12). In the article, Timpane gives a good taste of our Dear March — Come In program. The first performance of this program was last night at Bryn Mawr…
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  • Directions to tonight’s concert

    March 28, 2014

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    Tonight’s concert is in The Music Room at Bryn Mawr College, starting at 7:30 pm. Here are helpful directions for you. Directions to The Music Room at Bryn Mawr College: http://www.brynmawr.edu/campus/visiting.shtml From Philadelphia traveling on Montgomery Avenue – at the traffic light at Morris, Turn RIGHT, (this is at the Baldwin School turning away from the Train…
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  • Dear March – Composers, poems, sponsors

    March 26, 2014

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    Benjamin C. S. Boyle  set a poem by Edith Wharton. Boyle’s commission is supported by a gift from Dr. Christina Stasiuk and George Farion. Patience                      by Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) PATIENCE and I have traveled hand in hand So many days that I have…
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  • Interview with Kiera Duffy

    March 24, 2014

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    LF: Kiera Duffy, when did you first fall in love with opera and know this was your passion? KD: Well, my passion has always been for music, in general, but I guess the way in which I have expressed that passion has shifted over the years. The piano was my first love—I studied it for…
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  • Audiences growing for song recitals, by David Patrick Stearns

    March 23, 2014

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    David Patrick Stearns in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, in a long piece entitled Audiences Growing for Song Recitals, talks about the story of Lyric Fest and our Dear March – Come In program to be presented Friday and Sunday. A short excerpt: Especially at Lyric Fest, which rejects traditional European formats by building programs around a…
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  • DEAR MARCH – COME IN – Song Blog; No. 1 Poems

    March 17, 2014

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    When asked what she wanted most from Poetry, Sharon Olds, winner of the Pulitzer for Poetry in 2013 said “I want a poem to be useful.” I love that. And really, I think anyone who has journeyed through the vicissitudes of life, leaning on poetry all the way, recognizes this simple, kind truth. Probably I’ve…
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