by Kile Smith | Apr 30, 2018 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, String Orchestra, WRTI
We keep one composer and swap out two from last month’s American Romantics program on Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection. The two new composers are two Arthurs—Bird and Foote—and we’ll hear music they first wrote for other purposes. Arthur Foote’s Theme and...
by Kile Smith | Apr 2, 2018 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, April 7th, 5–6 pm… The history of a musical era is as difficult to capture as the history of a house. If your house was built in, say, 1880, you might fill it with Victorian furniture and feel satisfied with...
by Kile Smith | May 4, 2016 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, May 7, 5-6 p.m. George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931): Angel of Death (1918) Chadwick: Symphony No. 2 (1883–1885) On this month’s Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, we continue our recent survey of the...
by Kile Smith | Mar 30, 2016 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, April 2, 5-6 p.m. George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931): Melpomene (1887) Horatio Parker (1863–1919): Vathek (1903) Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901): Organ Concerto No. 1 (1884) After World War I, there was a trail...
by Kile Smith | Nov 1, 2012 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Saturday, November 3rd, 2012, 5-6 pm on WRTI William Grant Still (1895-1978). Danzas de Panama (1948). Serafin String Quartet. Centaur 3050, Tr 1–4. 14:12 Still. Dismal Swamp (1936). Richard Fields, piano. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jindong Cai. Centaur 2331, Tr...
