Deadmall Ballads - Hilliard and Boresi
Lyric Fest Movie Now Streaming On Demand
Deadmall Ballads – a seriocomic song cycle about the life cycle of the American shopping mall. Offered in a new vision with video antics by Lyric Fest, this song-movie features the brilliant score / libretto of Hilliard and Boresi, brought to full hilarity and poignance by the artist who inspired the work, Jennifer Aylmer. Deadmall Ballads was originally premiered by LF in 2022 by Jennifer Aylmer and Laura Ward and was then studio recorded for our movie.
“[With] original, bluesy-driven penetrating music… composed by Peter Hilliard with idiosyncratic words by Matt Boresi… Deadmall Ballads has a clear story arc built around nine colorful songs about a dying shopping mall. The listener is taken on a journey not unlike Dante’s Inferno."
-D.C. Metro Theatre Arts
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2023-2024 Season
October
La Serenata
Songs and Serenades from Italy for Guitar & Voice
7, 8 & 10
October
Evidence of Things Not Seen
Happy Birthday to Ned Rorem
23
December
Any of Those Decembers
A Winter Cantata commissioned by Lyric Fest for four voices, string quartet, flute, and piano by Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg, composer, setting the poetry of Jeanne Minahan.
16 & 17
February
L-O-V-E
Songs for Valentine’s Day
14 & 18
April
COTTON
COTTON presented at the 92nd Street Y
18
May
¡ CANCIÓN !
Mexican Classical and Ranchera Songs with piano and Mariachi
17, 18 & 19