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Lyric Fest

Lyric Fest

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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Lyric Fest illuminates the life of Benjamin Franklin in its latest Biography in Music series. Bringing together great singers, composers, history, and humor, this inventive program includes excerpts from Franklin’s letters, prose writing, and biographical narration. Musically it features both contemporaneous vocal music that would have been heard in colonial America at the time, plus settings of Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac. Completing the p...

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Participants

Martin Bakari

Singer

Randall Scarlata

Singer

Benjamin Wenzelberg

Singer

Jessica Beebe

Singer

Laura Ward

Piano

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1 dates (10 Apr - 10 Apr)

Apr

10

Fri

ellipse

7:30 pm

Benjamin Franklin Hall

Philadelphia, PA, United States

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