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  • SIBELIUS at 150 – A Blog

    November 11, 2015

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          Alas. We’ve had no luck finding a Jean Sibelius Action Figure, and here it is, less than a month away from his 150th Birthday. We will have to find other ways to acquaint you with dear Jean, the Swedish Finn, or the Finnish Swede. I never can remember. Anyway, news flash. Sibelius is one…
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  • Edgar Allan Poe – A Blog

    November 7, 2015

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    I think I’ve put my finger on it. Living in Poe’s word-world has felt to me like being in a dream. Wait. Let me try again. It is more accurate to say it has begun to feel less and less like a world that could have ever really existed…for anyone but for him. Poe said…
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  • Edgar Allan Poe – A Blog

    November 6, 2015

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        THE RAVEN – A Poe Fest Saturday, November 7, 2015, 8:00pm at Dumbarton Concerts, Washington, DC Sunday, November 8, 2015, 3:00pm at The Academy of Vocal Arts (Reception following) Tonight we meet in Washington – a cast of 12. We will finally all be in the same room to begin to pull this concert…
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  • Edgar Allan Poe – A Blog

    November 5, 2015

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    I try not to gossip, but really, sometimes it’s hard. Poe and these women! For a dour guy with a short and troubled lifespan, he certainly had a lot of romantic intrigue. Case in point: one poem “Thou wouldst be loved” gets recycled four times, for four different women. Let’s just jump to the end, when he was truly struggling…
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  • Edgar Allan Poe – A Blog

    November 3, 2015

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          So, it was about 200 hundred years ago that EAP lived in Philadelphia –  1837 to 1844. Here is the only house he lived in that is still standing. You can visit it yourself – it’s in the Spring Garden District. Just to state, perhaps, the obvious, Poe was not a happy guy….
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  • EDGAR ALLAN POE – A Blog

    October 31, 2015

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      Time for another action-filled video with Edgar Allan Poe (The Action Figure). Tune in while we try to reconcile Poe, the father of the American horror story with Poe, the erudite poet of heart stoppingly tender, romantic verse… THE RAVEN – A Poe Fest Saturday, November 7, 2015, 8:00pm at Dumbarton Concerts, Washington, DC…
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  • Edgar Allan Poe – A Blog

    October 28, 2015

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          Edgar Allan Poe Fun Fact Du Jour: Did you know the Baltimore Ravens were named for EAP’s famous poem “The Raven”? Just like our concert. THE RAVEN – A Poe Fest Saturday, November 7, 2015, 8:00pm at Dumbarton Concerts, Washington, DC Sunday, November 8, 2015, 3:00pm at The Academy of Vocal Arts
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  • Edgar Allan Poe – A Blog

    October 27, 2015

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        It’s Things I do not have in common with Edgar Allan Poe – Day. I did not publish a book of poetry by age 18. I do not keep an exhaustive scrapbook of nearly all the far-flung bits of knowledge I have acquired. I never dropped out of college, or been kicked out of…
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  • Edgar Allan Poe – A Blog

    October 25, 2015

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      Poe Fest Alert! We are two weeks out. Mark your calendars for November 8th at 3pm at The Academy of Vocal Arts. You will not want to miss what will be a very special concert for Lyric Fest. Five singers (one, a counter-tenor, a first for LF) and Laura Ward at the piano will be joined by…
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  • Edgar Allan Poe – A Blog

    October 23, 2015

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    I don’t know about you, but we’ve been immersed in Edgar Allan Poe these days. Fascinating stuff. There’s the horror element, of course, but on the other hand, the surprising discovery of exquisitely lyric love poetry. Here’s one: http://lyricfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Thou-Wouldst-Be-Loved.m4a Poetry so musical and rhapsodic that many composers have set them to music. We can’t help it, we ask…
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  • Edgar Allan Poe – A Blog

    October 22, 2015

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        Poe Fun Fact Du Jour: Did you know that the 19th Century French loved Edgar Allan Poe? Just loved him –practically claimed him as their own. I have it on good authority (from a Poe-aficionado-Parisian-dweller-French-lit-major-budding-author-friend-of-mine, Rachel Kesselman) that this is indeed the case. That the poet Charles Pierre Baudelaire was obsessed with Poe, for example. He…
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  • Edgar Allen Poe – A Blog

    October 20, 2015

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    In anticipation of our upcoming concert, Lyric Fest is now accepting orders for the Edgar Allan Poe Action Figure. Get yours now! Interviews with Poe – The Action Figure, Poetry Readings, Poe Fun Facts and Song Rehearsals to follow. Don’t miss it! THE RAVEN – A Poe Fest Saturday, November 7, 2015, 8:00pm at Dumbarton…
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