review

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…

Tom Purdom has published his review of our last concert of the 2014–2015 season, I’ll Make Me A World, in the Broad Street Review. Here are some little snippets from it, to whet your appetite for the whole thing, which you can read by following the link above. Once you are on the Broad Street…

Tom Purdom has published his review of Waxing Poetic — In This Blue Room in the Broad Street Review. He sees a dialog between the sexes in Kile Smith’s new song cycle. Below, you get to taste a tidbit to whet your appetite to read all of the review at the link above. We hope…

The Broad Street Review recently ran a wonderful review of our Vienna program by Susan Gould. By all means, please follow the link to read the entire review. Here are some excerpts to whet your appetite: … the auditorium in the Academy of Vocal Arts’s gorgeous building was the perfect setting. DuPlantis, … Her voice…

Tom Purdom reviewed in the Broad Street Review our end-of-season concert Dear March — Come In. As ever, we encourage you to read the entire text of the review at the preceding link, but here are some excerpts to whet your appetite.  It was, in short, a typical Lyric Fest variety show. If you weren’t…

Inquirer Classical Music Critic David Patrick Stearns reviewed our Dear March — Come In — American Women Poets in Song program. Some excerpts follow (as always, we encourage you to read the whole review at the link).  … the concert wasn’t really a gender study but a cross-section of American song … It took current composers to…

David Patrick Stearns, Inquirer Classical Music Critic, wrote a review of our Biography in Music – Benjamin Britten concert in today’s philly.com. Here are some excerpts; please do follow the link above to read the whole thing. As Benjamin Britten’s 2013 centennial year loomed, Lyric Fest was all but sure to build a concert around…

Tom Purdom published a review in the Broad Street Review of the last concert of our 10th Anniversary Season. His very first sentence nicely captures the uniqueness of Lyric Fest: Lyric Fest never does anything quite the way anyone else would do it. A few more quotes from the review, which we encourage you to…

Lewis Whittington reviewed our March 3 concert in ConcertoNet.com. Some choice excerpts from the review: “Lyric Fest designs concerts with scope and historical significance so well that it often results in uniquely vital programming. Earlier this year, their single performance of a deep field survey of music from Spanish, Latin and South American composers, brought academic…

Lyric Fest is deeply grateful to all who brought the History of the Civil Rights to our audiences for Journey Toward Freedom at the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia! The roof was raised by these amazing performers: Denyce Graves Lisa Daltirus Kevin Deas Rev. Charles Rice, narrator Jeffrey Brillhart and the Singing City Chamber Choir…

David Patrick Stearns published in philly.com a review of Sunday’s concert with the world premieres of the commissioned song cycles by Andrea Clearfield and Daron Hagen. Read all about it for his incisive reaction to the compositional styles of the two cycles and his justified praise of our wonderful performers.