Concert Blog Series

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  • A Neighborhood of Friends — a world of song

    June 12, 2016

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    Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 3 pm at Main Line Reform Temple Monday, November 14, 2016 at 10 am at Girard Academic Music Program (Invitation only)
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  • Letters to Santa — Happy Hour and Mini Concert

    June 12, 2016

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    Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at The Academy of Vocal Arts 5:30 pm for refreshments, 6 pm music
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  • Music in the White House — a collaboration between Lyric Fest and Singing City

    June 12, 2016

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    Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 7:30 pm at St. David’s Episcopal Church Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 3 pm at Church of the Holy Trinity
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  • It’s Elementary — Songs of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water

    June 12, 2016

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    Friday, March 31, 2017 at 7:30 pm at Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 3 pm at The Academy of Vocal Arts
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  • Happy Birthday Irving Berlin — Happy Hour and Mini Concert

    June 12, 2016

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    May 11, 2017 at The Academy of Vocal Arts 5:30 for refreshments, 6 pm music
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  • Broadstreet Review

    Review of Sincerely Yours in the Broad Street Review

    April 7, 2016

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    Tom Purdom, the instigator of the theme for this program in a comment made to Suzanne some eleven years ago, enjoyed the program very much and wrote a review in the Broad Street Review. Some tidbits to entice you to follow the link above to read the entire review (and while you are at it,…
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  • Letters Set To Music – A Blog

    March 29, 2016

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        March 29, 2016 Am I Blue? The winner of our song competition, Isabella Nicole Ness, set a beautiful letter of Vincent Van Gogh, written to his brother Theo. Theo adored his older brother. He believed in him, supported him financially, and unfailingly encouraged him. Theo understood Vincent. Any who have stood before a Van…
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  • Letters Set To Music – A Blog

    March 25, 2016

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          March 25, 2016 Oh, Emily I don’t know about you, but I always think of Emily in her late, reclusive years. A kind of white clad angel-scribe, observing all of nature, and all the human heart can hold – from a 3X5 foot window on the second floor of her house on Main Street in…
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  • Letters Set To Music – A Blog

    March 23, 2016

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        March 23, 2016 Dear Santa… When we were gathering composers for this letters project, we reached out to Logan Skelton. “As long as it’s an actual letter you can choose anything at all to set.” Anything… Everything. So close, these two. Dear Santa, All I want is just a little thing, but it…
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  • Letters Set To Music – A Blog

    March 22, 2016

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        March 22, 2016 Zelda’s Dream The year is 1918 – Alabama in July, and without a doubt, it is sweltering. A vivacious, attention loving coquette with talents of her own encounters a soon-to-be famous author, and just like that, two wild, uneasy souls meet – and are doomed. But all that will come in good time. After a…
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  • Letters Set To Music – A Blog

    March 21, 2016

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        March 21, 2016 The spectacle of life on the spectrum How’s this for an opener? “Dear Future Roommate, Don’t worry about us getting along. I’ve lived with crazy people all my life. My father is a poet, and his artsy friends—eccentric writers, boisterous musicians and neurotic painters— could populate a whole season of…
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  • Letters Set To Music – A Blog

    March 15, 2016

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        March 14, 2016 Amelia Musings Just the name Amelia causes a deep stirring in me. I’m not exactly sure why. Could it be her mysterious death? Her missing body? A vague nostalgia for a bygone American Spirit? Or maybe it’s just the Joni Mitchell song, an ear-worm that has accompanied hundreds of my days. In August of 1928, Amelia became…
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