by Kile Smith | Feb 11, 2013 | Classical music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra
German kids who speak German must be smarter than I am, I always think, since I can’t speak German very well. Well, they actually may be smarter, but I know for a fact that the young people in the Philadelphia Sinfonia Players play better than I ever could. The...
by Kile Smith | Jun 30, 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...
by Kile Smith | Jun 19, 2010 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection
What a fun piece this was; glad the Fleisher Collection had a part in it. Janet Anderson wrote it up in the Broad Street Review here; below, my letter filling in a few details about this fascinating slice of history: Re ”Back to the ‘30s, for one afternoon” by Janet...
