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  • A poem to start us thinking of the upcoming Journey toward Freedom concert

    February 2, 2013

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    Now, turning the leaf on the Winterreise project, we are setting our sights on the history of the Civil Rights Movement with our upcoming program “Journey Toward Freedom”. This program is inspired by the heroic efforts of so many who sought to create a better, truer America. Since learning the poem, The Cloths of Heaven…
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  • Review of A New Journey Into Song

    January 29, 2013

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    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 two cycles and his justified praise of our wonderful performers.
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  • Kile Smith’s reaction to our second Winterreise concert

    January 28, 2013

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    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.)
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  • Finding our Winterreise posts

    January 28, 2013

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    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 page in our site, which you can find here. Having done so, we have removed…
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  • After our Winterreise to ward off post-Winterreise blues

    January 26, 2013

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kVrbz_oJ3g Something to stave off post Winterreise blues, or for any who may be experiencing Schubert withdrawal… This video, besides being absolutely stellar vocally, is hilarious. (I am trying not to type o – m – g) Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (1891 — 1948) dressed like Schubert, glasses and all, at the piano accompanying himself…
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  • Interview with Andrea Clearfield

    January 21, 2013

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    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 Residency where she was composing and also rehearsing for Lyric Fest via Skype(!) with Laura,…
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  • A nice web discovery on Winterreise

    January 18, 2013

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    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 about music history, by Barry Mitchell. This page also starts with a useful synopsis of…
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  • Interview with Daron Hagen

    December 18, 2012

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    We had an opportunity to catch up with Daron Hagen who has composed a new song cycle for Lyric Fest’s New Journey into Song concert on January 27, at 3pm at The Academy of Vocal Arts. The new work entitled “After Words” was commissioned in celebration of Lyric Fest’s 10th Anniversary season. Q: No spoilers here, but…
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  • Another review of A tu Corazón

    November 21, 2012

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    Steve Cohen wrote a review of our Spanish Song concert from Sunday, the second review of this concert to appear in the Broad Street Review (we posted earlier about the first review by Tom Purdom). Mr. Cohen is happy that Spanish-language song is having its day in the sun more and more in our area….
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  • Review of A tu Corazón

    November 20, 2012

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    Tom Purdom wrote a wonderful review of our concert of two days ago. One more thing to be thankful for around the Thanksgiving table! Here are some tidbits from the review to entice you to follow the link for the full review: Lyric Fest transformed a concert of Spanish and Latin American songs into a…
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  • Interview with the singers of our A tu Corazón concert

    November 11, 2012

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    Lyric Fest had a chance to catch up with our guest artists, Carla Dirlikov, Diego Silva and Luis Ledesma to talk a bit about Spanish song… How does it feel to bring Spanish music to non-Spanish communities and what appeals to you in the repertoire? Diego: I have found that Spanish and Mexican music is…
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  • Reaction to Old City ~ New Song

    October 16, 2012

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    Composer Kile Smith, whose song was on Sunday’s program, has some very nice things to say about that concert. For a taste, here’s his last paragraph: Kelly was one of the delicious singers on the program, along with mezzo Suzanne DuPlantis, soprano Randi Marrazzo (both co-founders of Lyric Fest, along with the redoubtable accompanist Laura…
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