Interview with Thomas Lloyd What were your inspirations for the new song “Fatherly Reflections”? Tell us about this piece’s background and the lyrics. The poems were published years apart from each other by poet Karl Kirchwey, a colleague of mine at Bryn Mawr College, where he is an associate professor and director of the creative…
Lewis Whittington reviewed the Biography in Music ~ Samuel Barber concert in culturevulture.net. Some morsels: Lyric fest’s soloists — William Stone, Emily Bullock, Randi Marrazzo, Michelle Johnson and Suzanne DuPlantis — offered interpretive readings of Barber’s bold relationship with voice and text. … and the singers made this more than an academic appreciation of Barber. Just as…
Description of Elysium There: far, friends: ours: dear dominion: Whole health resides with peace, Gladness and never harm, There not time turning, Nor fear of flower of snow Where marbling water slides No charm may halt of chill, Air aisling the open acres, And all the gracious trees Spout up their standing fountains Of wind-beloved…
Did you get to enjoy one of the Barber concerts? Did you have to miss it? Tom Purdom has an insightful review in the Broad Street Review. Choice quote: The program added a major, highly entertaining contribution to the Barber centennial, and Lyric Fest is the only organization in the Philadelphia region that could have…
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TRAFFIC ALERT for those coming to tonight’s concert: Lincoln Dr will be closed the entire weekend between Wissahickon Dr and Gypsy Ln. (via @crossingchoir on Twitter)
Read all about it in Montgomery News Ticket by Joe Barron.
Bryan Hymel, previously announced as a singer for Biography in Music ~ Samuel Barber, will not be with us for this event. We will miss him, but we are very happy for Bryan, as he has been invited to La Scala in Milan to step in as a Don José in their production of Carmen. We hope to…
Our own co-founding artistic director, pianist Laura Ward, recently performed with soprano Jennifer Aylmer and baritone Randall Scarlata in a program called “Tin Pan Alley at the Gardner”. Read the rave review in the Boston Musical Intelligencer. Excerpt from the review: Soprano Jennifer Aylmer, baritone Randall Scarlata, and pianist Laura Ward in a program “Tin…
Q: What is the history and the inspiration behind The Crossing? How was this group created? DN: We came together in 2005 as a group of friends who missed each other – we never intended to found a chorus and I certainly don’t take credit for that. Instead, we planned a concert and were surprised…
Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 8pm
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 3pm
The First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia
Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 3pm
The First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia
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