by Kile Smith | Oct 28, 2017 | church music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Lutheran, WRTI
Anniversaries bump into each other on this Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday at 5 pm on WRTI. It’s year 500 since the beginning of the Reformation, almost to the day, when Martin Luther posted 95 theological and ecclesiastical points he wished to...
by Kile Smith | Sep 19, 2017 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Coming up on Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, September 2nd, 5 to 6 pm: Part of the joy of producing Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection is in the finding of connections. We’ve seen, for instance, how the German-English Frederick Delius became...
by Kile Smith | Jun 4, 2011 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
June 4th, 2011, 5:00–6:00 pm on WRTI Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916). Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 78 (1906). Alban Gerhardt, cello, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu. Hyperion 67583. Tr 5. 13.50 Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921). Königskinder, Concert...
by Kile Smith | May 6, 2011 | 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 nine years and...
by Kile Smith | Mar 31, 2010 | Classical music, Radio, WRTI
My brief WRTI Newsletter description for the Good Friday broadcast: A 20-year-old steps on the stage to conduct a piece by an almost-forgotten organist, and the course of Western music is changed forever. In 1829 the St. Matthew Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach was...
