Lyric Fest presents

Jake Miller and Wilder Troxell travel with Suzanne DuPlantis, Jennifer Hsiung, Cara Latham,

Randi Marrazzo, Mark Moliterno, Maggie Moliterno, Richard Troxell, with Laura Ward, Piano, Lisa Lovelace and her Dancing Friends,

The Motet Choir of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, Mark Anderson, conductorCaroline Foley and The Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

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November 9, 2008 at 3pm at The First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia

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A WORLD OF FRIENDS!with Traveling Friends, Jake Miller and Wilder Troxell

Laura Ward, Piano

You’ve got a friend in me Randy NewmannRichard Troxell and Company Singers: Wilder Troxell, Jake Miller, Suzanne DuPlantis, Jennifer Hsiung,

Cara Latham, Randi Marrazzo, Mark Moliterno, Maggie Moliterno

AUSTRIA: The Lonely Goatherd Rodgers and Hammerstein Maggie Moliterno

HUNGARY: See the Gypsies Zoltán Kodály Motet Choir of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, Mark Anderson, conductor

GREECE: Γιαρούμπι (Opa!) Maurice Ravel Mark Moliterno

FRANCE: Voyage à Paris Francis Poulenc Randi Marrazzo

Auprès de ma blonde Joseph Canteloube Jennifer Hsiung

GERMANY: Juche! (Hooray!) Johannes Brahms Cara Latham

Bandelterzett Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Maggie Moliterno, Richard Troxell and Mark Moliterno

UKRAINE: Snig na zelenomu lysti (Snow on the green leaves) Oleksandr Bilash Suzanne DuPlantis with Larissa Steinhagen and Alex Knihnicky of the Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Choreograqphed by Taras Lewyckyj, with Laura Ward and Cara Latham, piano

NORWAY: Killingdans Edvard Grieg Randi Marrazzo

ENGLAND: The Pirate King Gilbert & Sullivan Mark Moliterno

SCOTLAND: Willie Wabster Thea Musgrave Cara Latham

IRELAND: The Monk and His Cat (11th Century Irish text) Samuel Barber Jennifer Hsiung

The Leprechaun Transcribed by P.W. Joyce from a ballad singer in Ireland Maggie Moliterno

SOUTH AFRICA: Be Bright in the Corner South African Call and Response Song Company Singers, Motet Choir of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, Lisa Lovelace and her Dancing Friends with Richard Troxell and Joe Newmann, drummers

Intermission

AFRICA: Amani - Song of Peace Jim Papoulis Motet Choir of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, Mark Anderson, conductor, Jodi Bohr and Maura Church, percussionists

CHINA: Little Friends Chinese Folk Song Jennifer Hsiung

I live at the Source of the Yangtze River Qing Zhu Jennifer Hsiung, with dancer Caroline Foley. Choreographed by Yachih Chunag

RUSSIA: Счастье (Happiness) Dmitry Shostakovich Suzanne DuPlantis, Randi Marrazzo and Richard Troxell

THE CZECH REPUBLIC: Cestička pěkná šlapana Czech Folk Song, Arr. Marta Topferova Women soloists with Lisa Lovelace and her Dancing Friends

ITALY: Quando m’en vo Giacomo Puccini Maggie Moliterno

La Danza Gioachino Rossini Richard Troxell, Lisa Lovelace

ISRAEL: If I Were a Rich Man Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick Mark Moliterno

INDIA: Dravidian Dithyramb Victor Paranjoti Motet Choir of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, Mark Anderson, conductor

CUBA: Canto Negro Xavier Montsalvage Suzanne DuPlantis

BRAZIL: Girl from Ipanema Antonio Carlos Jobim Richard Troxell with Lisa Lovelace

ARGENTINA: Gato Alberto Ginastera Randi Marrazzo

AMERICA: Orange Cocoa Cake Lou and Peter Berryman Cara Latham arr. Cara Latham

Q & A WITH THE CAST

What a wonderful world! Louis Armstrong Richard Troxell, Wilder Troxell and Company Singers, Lisa Lovelace and her Dancing Friends:

Elizabeth Latham, Marie Latham, Lily McDowell, Mei Mei McDowell, Emma Newmann, Emma Palacio, Shane Troxell, Wilder Troxell

The Motet Choir of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir: Jasmine Azizi, Emily Ball, Frances Bernstein, Susannah Bruno, Sharell Bryant, Mariah Butler, Dana Campbell, Sarah Cardwell, Cece Carpitella, Liz Cheek, Maura Church, Jenni Cullen, Kara Davis, Lillie Ferris, Julia

Fijan, Amanda Fleming, Serenity Fung, Katie Grace, Savannah Guyer, Catharine Haak, Brea Hall, Hadley Hall, Becky Hallam, Carly Hillman, Nikki Jett-El, Hilary Leonard, Elisabeth Lugano, Kara Mulder, Anna Mullin, Kelly Norton, Adjoa Ntoso, Willa Ott, Rebecca Payne-

Passmore, Caroline Podraza, Kyra Reumann-Moore, Emma Schmidt, Christina Schorsch, Falon Seibert-Burns, Alex Selby, Lisa Spiller, Rupi Sureshkumar, Alice Thornburgh, Phoebe Wise, Elizabeth Yaffe, Miriam Zemel, Caroline Zhong, Andrea Zuzack

Mark Anderson, Conductor

Lyric Fest extends its heartfelt appreciation to the Trustees of The Greenfield Foundation Goldsmith Fund for their full sponsorship of this event, and for helping to make it accessible to a wide Philadelphia community.

We thank you for your friendship!