Lyric Fest is indebted to our sponsors who enabled us to commission many of the new works premiered in today’s performance:
Lauren & Craig Meyer, Allan Schimmel, Dr. Christina Stasiuk & George Farion, and John & Sandra Stouffer.
Special Thanks to The CHG Charitable Trust and The Philadelphia Cultural Fund for supporting our 2013/14 Concert Season.
Lyric Fest Board of Directors
Jane Kamp, President; Loretta Witt, Vice President; Mark Hemling, Treasurer; Mignon Groch, Secretary; Dimitrios Diamantaras,
Joan R. Greenfield, William L. Leonard,Thomas Lloyd, Lauren Pfundt Meyer, Marianne Miserandino, Charles Soltis
Suzanne DuPlantis and Laura Ward, Founding Artistic Directors
Randi Marrazzo, Founding Artistic Director, Emerita
www.lyricfest.org, Lyric Fest, 312 Carpenter Lane, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19118, 215.438.1702
Founder’s Circle - $5,000 +
The CHG Charitable Trust
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Dimitrios Diamantaras &
Marianne Miserandino
Frances Heffner
Mignon & James Groch
William Lake Leonard
David Newmann & Laura Ward
The Presser Foundation
The Stratton Foundation
The Wyncote Foundation **
** given in honor of John and Chara Haas
Artist’s Circle $1,250 - $4,999
American Composer’s Forum
DeAnn Clancy
Barbara Cobb/
Hamilton Family Foundation
Suzanne DuPlantis & Kevin McDowell
Samuel S. Fels Fund
Linda & David Glickstein/
The Lida Foundation
William & Joan R. Greenfield
Mark Hemling & John Marrazzo/
GlaxoSmithKline
John and Elizabeth Knorr Foundation
Judith Lovat & Cynthia Russell
Randi & Bill Marrazzo
Lauren & Craig Meyer
The Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia
Allan Schimmel
Christina Stasiuk & George Farion/
CIGNA Matching
Charles & Carol Soltis
John & Sandra Stouffer
Loretta & Tom Witt
Composer’s Circle $500 - $1,249
John Castagno
Margaret S. G. Cooke
Philip* & Ellen Frohnmayer
Caroline Goodman
Henry & Susan Harrison
A. Clinton Hewes
Jane Kamp & Thomas Lloyd
Brenda Oliphant
Rotberg/Comens/Bray Foundation
Rotberg/Comens/ Booth Foundation
Bill Sigmund & Vito Izzo/
GlaxoSmithKline Matching
Kathleen Scipione
Virginia Smith
June & Norman Ward
Heewon Chang & Klaus Volpert
Alice Chase, Leslie Roesler
Tony Checchia & Benita Valente
Dr. and Mrs. Harris Clearfield
Mary Dratman
Marc DiNardo & Elizabeth Drum
Kathy & Ken Emkey
Paolo Faustini
Anne Marie Frohnmayer
Carey & Dixon Gillis
Fran & Dick Gozon
Mary Bert & Alvin* Gutman Fund
Mary & Bill Hangley
Joanne & Bill Hanna
Daphne & Allen Hanford
Rose & John Hagopian
Anne & David Hilton
Marion Heacock
Alexander Holt +
Cynthia Jarvis
Kathryn & Marvin Keenze
Sheila Kessler
Mary & Justin Klein
John Lane
Michael & Eva Leeds
Clare & James Mackie
Jeff & Elinor Marrazzo
Dorothy Martin
Barbara Maxwell
Faith & Arthur McDowell
Laura & Philip McMunigal
Herman & Marciene Mattleman
Bob and Barbara Merin
Edward & Susan Montgomery
Fred Newmann, Carol Hegeler
Barbara & Charles Overholser
Ellen Rapsher
Elizabeth Racheva
Emily Riley
Naomi Rubin
Jean Ruff
John & Susan Salveson
George & Mary Schneider
Dave and Susan Spitko
Mary Anne Stetzer
Lieder Leaders -$250-$499
Jill Acker
Fred Barfoot
Jeffrey Billhart
Bill Bosch & Colby Madden
Sarah & Joseph Corvasce
Mary & Anthony Creamer
Lawrence Duplantis, Jr.
Harold & Louise Evans
Elizabeth Gemmill
Peter & Judy Goodman
Felicia Gonzalez
Ronald & Peggy Gregg
Martha Ridley Hurt
Dave Huting
Maggi Leyden
Caroline & Bill Kemmerer
Marjorie & Edward Kennedy
Robert Krueger
Cyril Lever
DeWitt & Naomi Montgomery
Larry Simmons & James Akerberg
Mindy Silver & Dan Cohen
Katharine Sokoloff McLaughlin
Donald Williams & Ken Ross
Champs de Chanson - $100 - $249
Annelouise Adee
Paula & Bill Adelheim
Ellen Anderson & Brantly Rudisill
Lauren Anderson
Joycellen Auritt
Margaret Baroody
Carol Boslet
Susan Brose, Tom Hemmerick
2014/15 CONCERT SEASON
Ann Stephenson
Charles Swanson
Fred & Susan Thompson
Pamela Urbas & Andrew Duchovnay
Eberhard & Gudrun von Auenmueller
Jack* & Linda Weaver
Elizabeth Weigle
Thomas Weiskerger
Laurence & Harriet Weiss
Robert White
Horace Williams
Song Makers up to - $99
David Adams
Christine Anderson
Annick Applewhite
Frances B. Baylson
David & Nancy Bergman
Christina Bauers
Marie Bloemer
Kendra Colton
Barbara Dowdall
Friend of the Arts
Martha Gardner
Frances and Diana Gill
Susan & Richard Gould
Gail & Henry Hauptfuhrer
Alan Harler
Rose & John Hagopian
Oleksandra Ivakhiv
Dr. & Mrs. Samuel Krain
Allen Krantz
Robert & Patricia Murphy
Michael & Elizabeth Merin
Ralph and Cheryl Pincus
Laura Pritchard
Tom Purdom
Olive Rich & Dolores Martell
Marjorie & C.W. Schwab
Margaret & Christopher Swisher
Richard Troxell & Lisa Lovelace
Steven Tyre
Kathleen Weir
Roberta & Alan Willoughby
Ray & Joan Zumoff
* deceased
+ in memory of Harry Saunders*
Dear March - Come in! -
Women
American
Poets
With
Kelly Ann Bixby
Jeffrey Halili
Randall Scarlata
Elizabeth Shammash
Suzanne DuPlantis
with
Laura Ward at the piano
Michelle Eugene
Narrator
Premieres by
VIENNA ~ CITY OF SONG
Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 3pm The Academy of Vocal Arts and Monday, October 6 at 7:30 at Bryn Mawr College
With Vienna as a point of departure, Lyric Fest will explore this cradle of art song in a program dedicated to German Lieder.
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MUCH ADO ABOUT SHAKESPEARE
Friday, November 14 and Sunday, November 16, 2014 at the GAMP School and at Main Line Reform Temple
In celebration of the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare, Lyric Fest presents a biographical song and opera program for families.
Shakespearean song settings and opera with a cast of singers, story-teller Charlotte Blake Alston and Shakespearean actor, Jim Bergwall.
in Song
Benjamin C. S. Boyle
Douglas Cuomo
Michael Djupstrom
Daron Hagen
James Primosch
Maurice Wright
WAXING POETIC
Friday, March 13, 2015 at 7:30 at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill and Sunday, March15, 2015 at 3pm at The Academy of Vocal Arts
Lyric Fest will explore the cross fertilization of artistic disciplines by commissioning a new song cycle by Kile Smith. Fine art batik artist,
Pritchard’s one woman show became the touchstone for the poetic works of four poets. These poetic works will be re-interpreted by composer Kile Smith and the three will be experienced together; song cycle, art viewing and a poetry reading.
I’LL MAKE ME A WORLD
Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 3pm at Church of the Holy Trinity
In collaboration with Singing City, Lyric Fest presents a concert that explores creation stories,
the resources of the earth, and the bounty and need that live side by side in the 21st Century.
Tuesday, July, 15, 2014 at 7:30 pm, Bristol Chapel, Westminster Choir College
PROGRAM
INTERMISSION
Dear March – Come in! –
Laura Ward, Pianist
Michelle Eugene, Narrator
Dear March – Come in! – by Emily Dickinson, song setting by Aaron Copland
Elizabeth Shammash
XIII - The rules break like a thermometer - by Adrienne Rich
Facing forward, looking back
ALL SHE BRINGS
Give me your tired, your poor - by Emma Lazarus, song setting by Irving Berlin
Randall Scarlata
It’s all I have to bring today - by Emily Dickinson, song setting by Ernst Bacon
Kelly Ann Bixby
Wild nights - by Emily Dickinson, premiere by Daron Hagen *
Jeffrey Halili
* The commission of all four songs of Daron Hagen was made possible by a gift from Lauren and Craig Meyer.
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Manners - by Elizabeth Bishop, song setting by Lee Hoiby
Elizabeth Shammash
Travels End - by Mary Folwell Holsington, song setting by Florence B. Price
Suzanne DuPlantis
The Greatest Man - by Anne Collins, song setting by Charles Ives
Randall Scarlata
Our Vision for the Future - by Amanda Nadelberg, premiere by Douglas Cuomo *
Kelly Ann Bixby
* Douglas Cuomo’s commission was made possible by a gift from John and Sandra Stouffer.
Motherwit - by Charlene Baldridge, song setting by Jake Heggie
Elizabeth Shammash and Suzanne DuPlantis
To be wretched or merry
Visit to St. Elizabeth’s - by Elizabeth Bishop, song setting by Ned Rorem
Jeffrey Halili
Recuerdo - by Edna St. Vincent Millay, song setting by John Musto
Randall Scarlata
THe Dance
WAITING
If you were coming in the Fall - by Emily Dickinson, premiere by Daron Hagen
Jeffrey Halili
Patience - by Edith Wharton, premiere by Benjamin C. S. Boyle *
Kelly Ann Bixby
* Benjamin C. S. Boyle’s commission was made possible by a gift from Christina Stasiuk and George Farion.
Fury - by Susan Snively, song setting by Donald Wheelock
Randall Scarlata
Infirm - by Gwendolyn Brooks, premiere by Michael Djupstrom *
Elizabeth Shammash
Waltzing the Spheres - by Susan Scott Thompson, premiere by James Primosch
Kelly Ann Bixby
How to Swing Those Obbligatos Around - by Alice Fulton, song setting by William Bolcom
Suzanne DuPlantis
Emily couplet
The Perfected Life - by Emily Dickinson, song setting by Lori Laitman
Randall Scarlata
* Michael Djupstrom’s commission was made possible by a gift from Allan Schimmel.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers – by Emily Dickinson, song setting by Logan Skelton
Suzanne DuPlantis
THE NEW HEAVEN
April Showers and Parting Advice
Of all the Souls that stand create - by Emily Dickinson, premiere by Daron Hagen
I’ve seen a Dying Eye - by Emily Dickinson, premiere by Daron Hagen
Jeffrey Halili
April Fool Baby - by Gertrude Stein, song setting by Paul Bowles
Elizabeth Shammash
Hold my hands, lover - by Virginia Robinson, premiere by Maurice Wright
Kelly Ann Bixby
Résumé - by Dorothy Parker, song setting by John Musto
Jeffrey Halili