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  • Letters Set To Music – A Blog

    March 12, 2016

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        March 12, 2016 I am moaning over here. Alas! What ever happened to letter-writing?? Not that there isn’t something elegantly haiku-ish about the perfect tweet. But I don’t know, isn’t that more like grabbing some tasty fast food on a 5 minute lunch break compared with the slow deliciousness of an unhurried meal…
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  • Lyric Fest on WETA Arts!

    February 12, 2016

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    WETA featured our recent Poe concert in the Dumbarton Concerts series in their WETA Arts program. Enjoy the whole video; the part that covers Lyric Fest’s participation in the Dumbarton Concerts is in the first 5:30 minutes or so.
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  • Brahms concert review by Michael Caruso

    February 4, 2016

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    Michael Caruso published a great review of our Brahms concert in the Chestnut Hill Local. We’d love for you to read the whole review. To whet your appetite, here are some small tastes: … presented a moving portrait of one of classical music’s most perplexing personalities through a deft combination of narration and music. Lyric Fest’s…
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  • BRAHMS – A Blog

    January 25, 2016

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        JOHANNES BRAHMS – Biography in Music (Rescheduled) CONCERT TONIGHT AT AVA, 7pm January 25, 2016 – Brahms-Humor (No, this is not a misnomer.) Don’t let this face fool you.       He could be funny. Okay, yes, he had a tendency to brood. (He once wrote “I have to confess …that I am…
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  • Snow update: no concert today, 1/24/2016

    January 22, 2016

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    Lyric Fest’s Brahms Biography in Music performance for today is CANCELED. A performance will be held tomorrow, Monday, January 25 at The Academy of Vocal Arts at 7 pm, and a second performance will be held in Chestnut Hill at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill at 7:30 pm on Friday, January 29. Stay warm…
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  • BRAHMS – A Blog

    January 21, 2016

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          January 21, 2016 – Brahms and Clara “I can do nothing but think of you and gaze constantly at your dear letter and portrait. What have you done to me? Can’t you remove the spell you have cast over me?” (21 year old Brahms to 34 year old Clara) The beginning of…
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  • Michael Caruso previews our Brahms concert

    January 15, 2016

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    Michael Caruso has a very nice and informative preview of our Brahms concert in the Chestnut Hill Local.
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  • BRAHMS – A Blog

    January 14, 2016

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          3. The Sexy Brahms Today’s song is Unbewegte laue Luft. But before I go any further, I have to warn you –Brahms and sex… It’s complicated. A little biographical back-drop might be in order: Picture the wharfs of Hamburg: sailors, prostitutes, rats. Now picture a pre-pubescent Johannes Brahms sent there by his father, into a brothel…
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  • BRAHMS – A Blog

    January 11, 2016

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          2. LESS IS MORE – January 11, 2016 So, I’m at the stage of cutting material out of the biographical narrative for the performance of Brahms – Biography in Music. A writer friend calls it “killing kittens.” It’s agonizing. Here, then, is one of my dead kittens: When Brahms was young – a…
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  • BRAHMS – A Blog

    January 10, 2016

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        “I have qualms about beginning this letter. So let us speak of something else.” –Johannes Brahms I wrote a Brahms Letters Programs years ago. PLF, as I like to call it. (When Lyric Fest was just a twinkle in our eye.) There was a newish book of his letters out by Styra Avins. (Highly recommended.)…
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  • SIBELIUS at 150 – A Blog

    November 22, 2015

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      Here is little dose of Sibelius to make your day. Not one, but two videos of Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte. Okay. I know it’s hard to pronounce, but just say “Flickan” and everyone will know. The story is this… The girl comes back from a tryst with her lover and her mother says, Why are…
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  • SIBELIUS at 150 – A Blog

    November 18, 2015

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        We are offering a different kind of concert experience with our upcoming Sibelius program on Tuesday, December 8 at 6pm. It’s a happy hour-birthday party that features Nordic delicacies, warming Finnish vodka, cooling wine, and about 45 minutes of incredibly beautiful songs by Jean Sibelius. Sibelius said this:  “Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in…
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