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Songstruck

Songstruck

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Songstruck, a Lyric Fest podcast exploring the creation, interpretation, and music behind our commissioned works and the new works we present.Copyright 2024 All rights reserved. Music
Episodes
  • Episode 11: In this blue room, Kile Smith

    Episode 11: In this blue room, Kile Smith
    14 Jul 2025

    Kile Smith's spellbinding jazz-inspired cycle, In this blue room, was commissioned and premiered by Lyric Fest in 2015. Based on poems written in response to artist Laura Madeleine's Batik paintings, the premiere featured Suzanne DuPlantis, mezzo-soprano, Daniel Teadt, baritone, and pianist Laura Ward.

    For more information, visit https://lyricfest.org/commissions/in-this-blue-room/.
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    19 min
  • Episode 10: COTTON, Damien Geter

    Episode 10: COTTON, Damien Geter
    1 Feb 2025

    Lyric Fest’s COTTON is a spellbinding multimedia song-cycle by Damien Geter based on the extraordinary cotton photography of John Dowell. The song cycle features commissioned poems by Nikki Giovanni, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Lauren K. Alleyne, Glenis Redmond, Trapeta Mayson, Afaa Michael Weaver, Alora Young, and Charlotte Blake Alston.

    For more information, visit lyricfest.org.
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    13 min
  • Episode 9: Any of Those Decembers, Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg & Jeanne Minahan

    Episode 9: Any of Those Decembers, Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg & Jeanne Minahan
    18 Dec 2024

    Take a glorious wintry stroll through an extraordinary new song cycle, Any of Those Decembers, from the brilliant young composer, Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg, and Philadelphia poet, Jeanne Minahan.
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    20 min
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