by Kile Smith | Jun 25, 2017 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Orchestral Music, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection July 1, 5–6 pm: Charles Ives (1874–1954). Variations on “America” (1891), arr. William Schumann Ives. Symphony No. 2 (1901) Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection starts the Independence Day weekend with that...
by Kile Smith | Jul 2, 2014 | Fleisher Collection, WRTI
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday July 5th at 5 pm Aaron Copland (1900–1990). Our Town (1940). London Symphony Orchestra, Aaron Copland. CBS/Sony 42429, Tr 1. 11:01 Charles Ives (1874-1954). Holidays Symphony (1887-1913). Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
by Kile Smith | Nov 18, 2010 | CD Reviews, Classical music, Music Criticism, My CD Reviews, WRTI
My latest CD mini-review for the WRTI E-newsletter. You can read all my CD reviews here. Bach, Mussorgsky, Wagner – the Stokowski Transcriptions José Serebrier, The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.505086 CD 1: Wagner: Symphonic Syntheses by Stokowski. 8.570293...
by Kile Smith | Oct 9, 2010 | Chamber Music, new music
Jeff, the bassoonist, sent me an email, saying that John Strassburger had died. It was three months earlier, almost to the day, that Jeffrey Centafont, accompanied by John French on the piano, helped to celebrate Strassburger’s retirement as President of Ursinus...
by Kile Smith | Aug 11, 2010 | CDs, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On the first Saturday of the month Jack Moore and I host Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection on WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia and on the all-classical webstream at wrti.org. We also broadcast encore presentations of the entire Discoveries series (now eight years...
