Deadmall Ballads – Hilliard and Boresi
Lyric Fest Movie Now Streaming On Demand Deadmall Ballads – a seriocomic song cycle about the life cycle of the American shopping mall. Offered here in a new vision with video antics by Lyric Fest, this song-movie features the brilliant score / libretto of Hilliard and Boresi, brought to full hilarity and poignance by the artist who inspired the work, soprano Jennifer Aylmer. Deadmall Ballads was originally premiered by LF in 2022 by Jennifer Aylmer and Laura Ward and was then studio recorded for our movie. “[With] original, bluesy-driven penetrating music… composed by Peter Hilliard with idiosyncratic words by Matt Boresi… Deadmall Ballads has a clear story arc built around nine colorful songs about a dying shopping mall. The listener is taken on a journey not unlike Dante’s Inferno. -D.C. Metro Theatre Arts
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Lyric Fest is a place to experience the unique power of the human voice in song. We bring together great singers, composers, history, biography, and humor. Here we tell our stories in song.
Proof of vaccination and masking is required for all Lyric Fest performances.
Have A Look At Our
2023-2024 Season
October
WINNARETTA SINGER
a surprising American princess
4 & 5
December
FASCINATING RHYTHM
George Gershwin ~ as he played it
6 & 7
March
DREAM KEEPER
The life, letters, and lyrics of Langston Hughes
14 & 15
April
Here’s What’s Happening Right Now
The life, letters, and lyrics of Langston Hughes
DREAM KEEPER
Lyric Fest partners with Singing City to present a Langston Hughes program of song, poetry, and narration, featuring Charlene Canty, Kenneth Overton, pianist Laura Ward, and narrators/readers Charlotte Blake Alston and Rev. Chaz Howard, and Singing City Choir, brought together to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of poet and social activist Langston Hughes.
Note:
Saturday's family performance is ticketed through Singing City. Visit www.singingcity.org