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Steve Cohen wrote a review of our Spanish Song concert from Sunday, the second review of this concert to appear in the Broad Street Review (we posted earlier about the first review by Tom Purdom). Mr. Cohen is happy that Spanish-language song is having its day in the sun more and more in our area….

Tom Purdom wrote a wonderful review of our concert of two days ago. One more thing to be thankful for around the Thanksgiving table! Here are some tidbits from the review to entice you to follow the link for the full review: Lyric Fest transformed a concert of Spanish and Latin American songs into a…

We are very happy that Tom Purdom has listed our entire 2012-13 season as one of his “nine great coming attractions” in the Broad Street Review. In his words: “with programs that feature every kind of vocal music from rarefied art songs to Broadway show tunes, and they haven’t put on a bad show yet”…

The Broad Street Review has a review of the April 29 performance of Once Upon a Time, written by Tom Purdom. Tom starts with this: Everyone who values the Classical music tradition agrees that we must cultivate audiences if the tradition is to survive. The Lyric Fest song series supports that noble cause with an…

This one by Sharon Torello, on LocalArtsLive.com, a site well worth an extended visit by classical music lovers in the Philadelphia area. How often do you read a sentence like this in a review of a song performance? It was as if the poem was projected on a IMAX screen. Well then! Read the whole…

The review was written by Tom Purdom and published in the Broad Street Review. Some choice tidbits to whet your appetite for the whole thing: […] one of Lyric Fest’s most varied and entertaining programs, complete with an after-concert mingle that included birthday cake and champagne in the Academy of Vocal Arts reception room. The event…

David Patrick Stearns reviewed our A Very Good Year ~ Happy Birthday to 1912 concert in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Read all about it on philly.com; here are some choice quotes: With immense wit and perhaps tongue in cheek, Lyric Fest, the Philadelphia art song collective, unveiled the program titled “A Very Good Year: Happy Birthday…

David Patrick Stearns reviews this past weekend’s concert To Kiss the Earth. Read it at the link and discover who is “compulsively enterprising”, what “worked like a charm”, who had “a charming, articulate presence”, what is like a Cadillac automobile, and more.

This one is by Lewis Whittington, writing on www.concertonet.com. Some snippets: […] With themes of love, desire, lust and all around canoodling in the middle ages seems like it would play out fast, but it was a sumptuous feast of unexpected musical breadth and an illuminating archive. […] […] the soloists who all displayed both…

This one from Tom Purdom, in the Broad Street Review. It’s another wonderful review; enjoy the excerpts below and read the whole thing, if nothing else for the truly inspired last line. No, we will not give the spoiler here. For its first early music concert, Lyric Fest joined forces with an early music expert,…

Our opening concert of the season got a glowing review by Michael Caruso (Chestnut Hill Local). We want to share with you some excerpts; we will post the link to the full review when it becomes available. Lyric Fest opened its ninth season Friday night, September 23, in the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill by…

We have spotted two reviews of the last concert of our 2010-2011 season online. Some excerpts: I was first very happy to see that the program included not only translations but also engaging, easy to follow notes on each composer. […] The singers and instrumentalists were solid and did what was best – let the…