Presenting music from the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music in the Free Library of Philadelphia, on the first Saturday of each month from 5 to 6 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 FM. Hosted by Kile Smith, Curator of the Fleisher Collection, and Jack Moore, Program Director of WRTI. In Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, we uncover the unknown, rediscover the little-known, and take a fresh look at some of the remarkable treasures housed in the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music in the Free Library of Philadelphia. The Fleisher Collection is the largest lending library of orchestral performance material in the world. (For full details on each program, click on the date.)
Encore presentations of the entire Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection broadcasts are now airing and webstreaming every Wednesday night from 7 to 8 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 FM, HD2.
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Jan 2, 2010 Alexander Glazunov
Feb 6, 2010 Edward Elgar, Dorothy Howell, Edward MacDowell
Mar 6, 2010 Elinor Remick Warren
Apr 3, 2010 Hugo Alfvén
May 1, 2010 Edward MacDowell, Curt Cacioppo, Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate
Jun 5, 2010 Paul Kletzki, Johannes Brahms
Jul 3, 2010 Ferde Grofé
Aug 14, 2010 Henry Cowell
Sep 4, 2010 Louis Spohr, Henri Vieuxtemps
Jan 3, 2009 Julián Aguirre, Jenö Hubay
Feb 14, 2009 William Grant Still, William Dawson
Mar 7, 2009 Ferdinand Hiller, Max Bruch
Apr 4, 2009 Albert Hurwit, Felix Draeseke
May 16, 2009 John Davison, Joel Mandelbaum, Aleksandr Grechaninov
Jun 6, 2009 Josef Holbrooke, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Jul 4, 2009 Anton Rubinstein
Aug 1, 2009 Camille Saint-Saëns, Paul Jeanjean
Sep 5, 2009 Romeo Cascarino, Maurice Wright
Oct 3, 2009 Victor Herbert, George Chadwick
Nov 7, 2009 Salomon Jadassohn, Gloria Coates
Dec 5, 2009 Ignaz Brüll, Walter Burle Marx
Jan 5, 2008 Irving Schlein
Feb 9, 2008 John Knowles Paine
Mar 1, 2008 Carl Ruggles
Apr 5, 2008 Louis Spohr
May 3, 2008 Horatio Parker
Jun 14, 2008 Carlos López Buchardo, Silvestre Revueltas, Alejandro García Caturla, Mozart Camargo Guarnieri
Jul 5, 2008 Alan Hovhaness, Benjamin Godard, David Heuser
Aug 2, 2008 Harry Hewitt, Zygmunt Stojowski
Sep 6, 2008 Miklós Rózsa, Robert Russell Bennett
Oct 4, 2008 Ma Szû-tsung, Josef Suk
Nov 1, 2008 Josef Suk
Dec 6, 2008 Tibor Serly, David Heuser
Jan 6, 2007 W.A. Mozart, Engelbert Humperdinck, Nicolai Berezowsky, J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Michael Bach, Michael Praetorius, Ottorino Respighi
Feb 3, 2007 Franz Strauss, Nicolai Lopatnikoff
Mar 3, 2007 Harold Davidson, Gerald Strang, William Russell, John J. Becker, Johanna Beyer, John Cage, interview with Christopher Shultis
Apr 7, 2007 Joel Suben, Alan Hovhaness
May 5, 2007 Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Jun 2, 2007 Wilhelm Bernhard Molique, Louis Gesensway
Jul 7, 2007 Florencio Asenjo, George Frederick Bristow
Aug 4, 2007 David Raksin, Nancy Van de Vate
Sep 1, 2007 Johann Strauss Jr., Victor Herbert, Stephen Cohn
Oct 20, 2007 Amy Beach
Nov 3, 2007 Joaquín Rodrigo
Dec 1, 2007 Gene Gutchë
Jan 7, 2006 Ilja Hurník
Feb 4, 2006 Vladimir Ptushkin, interview with conductor Gavriel Heine
Mar 4, 2006 Jerzy Gablenz, interview with Thomas and George Gablenz
Apr 1, 2006 Lili Boulanger, Vivian Fine, Florence Price
May 6, 2006 Thomas Schnauber, Anton Rubinstein, interview with Jason Love
Jun 3, 2006 Josef Reicha, Eugen D’Albert, interview with Jeffrey Solow
Jul 1, 2006 Charles Ives
Aug 5, 2006 Carlo Gesualdo, Kile Smith
Sep 2, 2006 Miklós Rózsa, Robert Russell Bennett
Oct 7, 2006 Pablo Sarasate, Sir John Blackwood McEwen, Rachel Barton Pine / Alasdair Fraser, interview with Rachel Barton Pine
Nov 4, 2006 Tibor Serly, Geoffrey Peterson, interview with Geoffrey Peterson
Dec 2, 2006 Louis Gesensway, Jules Massenet
Jan 8, 2005 Karl Stamitz, Clermont Pépin, interview with Clermont Pépin
Feb 19, 2005 Amy Beach, Ernst Bacon, interview with Ellen Bacon
Mar 5, 2005 John Powell, interview with Rolf Charlston
Apr 2, 2005 Maurice Wright, François-Joseph Gossec, interview with Maurice Wright
May 7, 2005 Eugen d’Albert, Gösta Nystroem, interview with Nystroem daughter Mona Batt
Jun 4, 2005 Harold Boatrite, Antonio Rosetti, interview with Boatrite and harpsichordist Temple Painter
Jul 2, 2005 Jeremy Beck, George Chadwick, interview with Jeremy Beck
Aug 6, 2005 Mily Balakirev, César Cui, interview with pianist Joseph Banowetz
Sep 3, 2005 Josef Geringer, Jerzy Gablenz, interview with Geringer daughter Lilly Drukker
Oct 8, 2005 Harry Hewitt, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Meyer Kupferman
Nov 5, 2005 Aaron Copland, David Dzubay, Emma Lou Diemer, interview with David Dzubay
Dec 3, 2005 Gardner Read, Ann Wyeth McCoy
Jan 3, 2004 Joseph Achron, Emma Lou Diemer, interview with Emma Lou Diemer
Feb 7, 2004 Arthur Foote, Karl Boelter, Lou Harrison
Mar 6, 2004 Clara Schumann, Hans Huber
Apr 10, 2004 John Biggs, George Lloyd
May 1, 2004 Marcel Farago, interview with Marcel Farago and conductor Rossen Milanov
Jun 5, 2004 Jacobo Ficher, Henry Hadley, interview with Jacobo Ficher son Miguel Ficher
Jul 3, 2004 Florencio Asenjo, Franz Lachner, interview with Florencio Asenjo
Aug 7, 2004 William Henry Fry, Dean Rishel, interview with Dean Rishel
Sep 4, 2004 Dudley Buck, Raoul Pleskow, Adolph Weiss, interview with Raoul Pleskow and saxophonist Marshall Taylor
Oct 16, 2004 Frederick Shepherd Converse, Lee Hoiby, interview with Lee Hoiby and Free Library Director Elliot Shelkrot
Nov 6, 2004 Stephen Dodgson, interview with Stephen Dodgson and flutist Robert Stallman
Dec 4, 2004 Ignaz Moscheles, Joseph Kasinskas, Frank James Staneck, interview with Joseph Kasinskas, violinist Bridget Kasinskas, Frank James Staneck, and conductor Philip Travaline
Jan 4, 2003 Louis Spohr, Peter Zagar
Feb 1, 2003 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ernst Bacon, Fridrich Bruk
Mar 1, 2003 Ferruccio Busoni, Gene Gutchë
Apr 5, 2003 Emanuel Leplin
May 3, 2003 Arne Running, David Finko, interview with Arne Running, David Finko, and conductor James Freeman
Jun 7, 2003 Victor Herbert, George Szell
Jul 5, 2003 Louis Gruenberg, Harl McDonald
Aug 2, 2003 Romeo Cascarino, George Chadwick
Sep 6, 2003 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Wolfgang Mozart, interview with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and conductor Donald Spieth
Oct 4, 2003 Clifford Vaughan, Henry F. Gilbert
Nov 1, 2003 George Frederick McKay, Henry Vieuxtemps
Dec 6, 2003 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Henry Fry, interview with violinist Rachel Barton Pine
Sep 7, 2002 William Henry Fry, Lou Harrison, Jules Massenet
Oct 5, 2002 Aaron Avshalomov, Jacob Avshalomov, Burnet Tuthill, interview with conductor JoAnn Falletta, clarinetist Robert Alemany
Nov 2, 2002 Horatio Parker, George Chadwick, John Biggs
Dec 7, 2002 Joachim Raff, Clermont Pèpin, Lee Hoiby
