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Daily Archives: 10 June 2010

Paul Kletzki, Polish Music Center

The Polish Music Center at USC picked up on our last Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, with a notice in the Polish Music Newsletter here.

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This entry was posted in CDs, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI and tagged Paul Kletzki, Polish Music Center on 10 June 2010 by Kile Smith.

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11 May 2013
Three Dances
New version for string orchestra. Temple University Music Preparatory Division Festival of Young Musicians, Youth Chamber Orchestra, Holy Trinity Church Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, 7:30 pm

16 May 2013
The Red Book of Montserrat
World premiere, Philadelphia Sinfonia, Perelman Theatre, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 8 pm

Selected works, audio; click title for more information

Anthems and choral music here

American Spirituals, Book One
violin, piano

American Spirituals, Book Two
cello, piano

The Bremen Town Musicians
violin, cello, narrator
The Chambered Nautilus
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Mass for Philadelphia
congregation, descant, organ
The Nobility of Women
Baroque chamber ensemble

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SATB div. also SATB, opt. piano

Plain Truths
baritone, string quartet; also baritone, piano

The Red Book of Montserrat
   string orchestra
Red-tail and Hummingbird
   six instruments
Softly and Tenderly
   piano

Testimony
piano

This Broad Land
bassoon, piano

This Broad Land; The Better Angels of Our Nature
   soprano saxophone, piano
Three Dances
   New version for string orchestra
The Three Graces
   Solo oboe, horn, cello with string orchestra or with piano and bass

Two Laudate Psalms
   high voice, girls’ choir, piano
Vespers
   SATB, SATB soloists, Renaissance band also SATB, SATB soloists, piano
The Waking Sun
   SATB, string quintet, theorbo, organ
Where Flames a Word
   SATB

Now Is the Time, on WRTI

19 May 2013, 10-11pm

Warmth
Ingrid Arauco: Florescence
Derek Bermel: Thracian Sketches
George Tsontakis: Gymnopedies
Avner Dorman: Moments Musicaux
John Gibson: Thrum
David Lang: Warmth

American contemporary music, Sundays at 10 pm: That's Now Is the Time. On WRTI-HD2 and on the classical stream at wrti.org, it’s all styles of concert music by living American composers. Here are the recording details and complete schedule, and because you really wanted to know, here’s the theme music and how it was written. Tell me what you think (if I can't take it, I promise to write back), and ask me where to send CDs for broadcast consideration.

Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, on WRTI

1 Jun 2013, 5-6pm

Joseph Haydn
Symphonies early and late
The ﬁrst Saturday of the month, Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection--11 years on the radio!--uncovers (and/or rediscovers) treasures from the largest lending library of orchestral performance material in the world. No kidding. Here’s the complete schedule, with descriptions of every show.

Broad Street Review

Palm Sunday drums
Thomas Lloyd's Bonhoeffer
Red-tail and Hummingbird, Part 4
Red-tail and Hummingbird, Part 3
Red-tail and Hummingbird, Part 2
Red-tail and Hummingbird, Part 1
Let's Hang On
Propinquity
How I'm voting?
Paul Simon knows what I'm talking about
Music doesn't evolve
Whale-watching
Bridges and early music
Bach, St. John Passion, anti-Semitism
Slapstick
Ooh, Child
Backbeat
Etta James, At Last
Samuel Hsu
What a Wonderful World
The penalty kick
15 minutes as Shakespeare
The grave of Alexander Gretchaninoff
How I learned to love Milton Babbitt
The symphony is not dead

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Francis Pott in the Heart of Things
David Bennett Thomas, Paths
Dave Brubeck's Secret
The Treasury of English Church Music
Robert Moran, Trinity Requiem
Carson Cooman, The Welcome News
David Carbonara, Mad Men
Mark Hagerty, Soliloquy
Musik Ekklesia, The Nordic Chorale
Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Harvest Home
John Williams: Greatest Hits 1969-1999
Hermann Baumann. Saint Hubert
Relache. Press Play
Stokowski boxed set, Serebrier
The Wanamaker Organ
Jordi Savall, Jerusalem
Kronos Quartet, 25 Years
Der Rosenkavalier
J.S. Bach, Huggett, Ruiz
John Zorn, The Gift
Gustavo Dudamel, Fiesta
Chant d’Automne, French Horn music
Charles Ives, Maurice Wright
Lang Lang
Pēteris Vasks, Message
John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Vivaldi
Robert Moran, Mantra
Stile Antico, Music for Compline
Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy
Cem Duruöz, Contemporary Guitar
American Orchestral Song

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Vespers

“A spectacular work”—Gramophone
More reviews…
Audio samples, program notes…

Where Flames a Word

“Spellbinding… an important world premiere”—Philadelphia Inquirer
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