Concert Blog Series

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  • PIFA is approaching—here is NBC Philadelphia’s take

    February 17, 2011

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    Our last concert of the 2010-11 season is on April 10, and belongs to the PIFA festival. NBC Philadelphia ran an article about it yesterday. Check it out, follow the links, and check out our own contribution to the festival. Visit our tickets page and get your tickets today!
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  • Photos from Sunday’s rehearsal for I’ve Got Rhythm

    January 25, 2011

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    Check them out on our Facebook page!
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  • Revamped Listen and Watch page

    January 23, 2011

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    We’ve streamlined our Listen and Watch page to make it easier to find the clip you want to hear/see. Check out the page and its subpages from the drop-down menu. Enjoy!
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  • More audio for you

    January 16, 2011

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    We just added to our Listen and Watch page an audio clip of mezzo-soprano Meghan Dey-Toth singing “Dream within a Dream” from our Old City ~ New Song program in April 2008. Enjoy!
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  • New Audio in Listen and Watch

    January 14, 2011

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    We just added two songs to the Listen and Watch page, of baritone Daniel Mobbs, with Laura Ward at the piano, performing “The Infinite Shining Heavens” of Ralph Vaughan-Williams and “Svarta Rosor” (“Black Roses”) by Jean Sibelius, from our Night and Day ~ The Harmony of Yin-Yang concert in November 2010. Also added: a photo…
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  • Give a gift of PIFA tickets for the holidays – our April 2011 “Stranger Things ~ Paris in the Early 20th Century” included

    December 10, 2010

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    Our friends from the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts have a special deal for you! “Looking for a truly unique holiday gift this year? How about a once-in-a-lifetime experience? The upcoming Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), which holds the spotlight for three and a half weeks next spring (April 7 to May 1),…
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  • Travel alert for tomorrow, November 21

    November 20, 2010

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    The Philadelphia marathon is tomorrow. Please check the schedule for information. Specifically, it appears that Kelly drive will be closed until 3 pm and the Ben Franklin Parkway will be closed until 4 pm on November 21. Traffic.com is recommending Broad Street as an alternate route for those who would otherwise have used Kelly Drive…
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  • Montgomery News previews The Harmony of Yin-Yang

    November 16, 2010

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    Victoria Genuardi previews The Harmony of Yin-Yang in the Montgomery News.
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  • Interview with pianist Harold Evans

    November 11, 2010

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    Interview with pianist Harold Evans: How did you grow to play piano and how did you start improvising? I was fortunate to be born with what musicians refer to as “perfect pitch”, i.e., the ability to identify musical sounds simply by hearing them and not actually by seeing them on the printed page.  After I…
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  • Michael Caruso’s review of the Barber concert

    November 8, 2010

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    The Chestnut Hill Local published a glowing review of the Biography in Music ~ Samuel Barber concert by Michael Caruso. Get the November 4th issue and look for the “Noteworthy” column! Here are some excerpts: … a superbly satisfying musical experience … … How better to appreciate that deeply missed voice than to hear some…
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  • Interview with Thomas Lloyd

    November 6, 2010

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    Interview with Thomas Lloyd What were your inspirations for the new song “Fatherly Reflections”? Tell us about this piece’s background and the lyrics. The poems were published years apart from each other by poet Karl Kirchwey, a colleague of mine at Bryn Mawr College, where he is an associate professor and director of the creative…
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  • One more great review of the Barber concert

    November 5, 2010

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    Lewis Whittington reviewed the Biography in Music ~ Samuel Barber concert in culturevulture.net. Some morsels: Lyric fest’s soloists — William Stone, Emily Bullock, Randi Marrazzo, Michelle Johnson and Suzanne DuPlantis — offered interpretive readings of Barber’s bold relationship with voice and text. … and the singers made this more than an academic appreciation of Barber. Just as…
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