Lyric Fest is the only performing-arts organization in the mid-Atlantic region with a primary focus on song and art song in all its varied expression. Now in it’s 15th year, LF has produced and presented over 100 concerts and recitals featuring more than 200 local, regional and national artists. LF’s reputation for excellence and innovation is growing regionally and nationally, and the organization has been featured in a number of national publications. Commissioning and performing new works is also an integral part of LF’s mission and programming philosophy.
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Lyric Fest Announces 2018-2019 Season
September 29, 2018
Posted In Press ReleasesFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHILADELPHIA, PA –September, 2018 Lyric Fest’s 16th season continues our journey of bringing beautiful music to you in Philadelphia and beyond. After an outreach concert of Irving Berlin favorites In Yellow Springs, Lyric Fest joins the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in October at the Kimmel Center to present Leonard Bernstein – Biography in… -
My Residency with Lyric Fest (Benjamin C.S. Boyle)
May 28, 2018
What a year it’s been! Like all wonderful times, we remember the beginning as if it were years ago and the end as having come impossibly quick. From the opening concert from the pianist’s point of view and the recital of my songs in December, to the Debussy portrait in music and the finale with… -
2017-18: Bryan Hymel, Irini Kyriakidou, Mark Holloway & Laura Ward in Concert
May 4, 2018
Program: Bryan Hymel, Irini Kyriakidou, Mark Holloway & Laura Ward in Concert -
Crowning the 15th-Anniversary Season
April 30, 2018
Lyric Fest is 15! Having assisted in its birth, having made the first online outfit for this new baby in the Philly song scene (its first website), having helped take care of the baby’s affairs as a member of the board, having made new outfits and accessories for the growing child (new versions of the… -
April 2018 at Lyric Fest
April 30, 2018
Posted In NewslettersUpcoming concert with Bryan Hymel, Irini Kyriakidou & Laura Ward and much more! -
Chansons de Diane
April 24, 2018
Posted In BlogI grew up (mostly) in Maryland and memorized as much E.A. Poe as I could get my hands on. There was a statue of him near my house, which may have deepened the kinship. Poe was also a contemporary of the early Romantic composers Chopin and Schumann, whose music I adored growing up and continue… -
Lyric Fest Presents International Opera Stars Bryan Hymel and Irini Kyriakidou in Concert with Pianist Laura Ward
April 7, 2018
Posted In Press ReleasesFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Robert Rimm r.rimm@88keys.com 215.870.8800 Lyric Fest Presents International Opera Stars Bryan Hymel and Irini Kyriakidou in Concert with Pianist Laura Ward Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 3 PM Church of the Holy Trinity Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, PA – April 6, 2018 As the grand finale to Lyric Fest’s 15th-anniversary… -
Songs from the Great American Song Book
April 5, 2018
Posted In Blog“When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires will come to you….” I grew up listening to my mother sing “When You Wish Upon a Star” (Leigh Harline & Ned Washington, 1940), so when I heard those lyrics emerge from Richard Troxell and Suzanne DuPlantis at the… -
HUMMING AND STRUMMING – A guitar blog
March 28, 2018
LIEDER ON SIX STRINGS Allen Krantz, guitarist for Humming and Strumming, says Schubert is like a fine consommé, and Brahms is… how did he put it? A potage? A thick stew? A cassoulet? I can’t remember exactly, but you’re getting the point, and I’m getting hungry. Nevertheless, I am here to tell you… -
March 2018 at Lyric Fest
March 22, 2018
Posted In NewslettersHumming and Strumming program, podcast & blog, a look ahead at May & June’s concerts and more! -
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HUMMING AND STRUMMING – A Guitar Blog
March 18, 2018
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED… Mátyás György Seiber and the folksong At heart I must be utterly simple. And what I so love about song, I doubly love in folksong. Fortunately, I am not alone, and many a decent composer, even many renowned ones, have a soft spot for these direct and unpretentious…