by Kile Smith | Feb 1, 2022 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
A passacaglia is an ever-unfolding imagining of a single theme, over and over, like the living of a life. Richard Yardumian (1917–1985). Passacaglia, Recitatives and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra (1957) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Hi everybody, I’m Kile...
by Kile Smith | Dec 31, 2021 | American music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Orchestral Music, Podcast
It’s debatable how much power 12-tone music held over classical music in the 20th century, but power it certainly had. Then an inside man dropped a bombshell. A look at George Rochberg. George Rochberg (1918–2005). Symphony No. 1 (1949–57) Listen on SoundCloud Listen...
by Kile Smith | Feb 1, 2016 | Classical music, WRTI Arts Desk
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk, 1 Feb 2016. Reprinted by permission.] The recording industry gives out the GRAMMY Awards in two weeks, and WRTI’s Kile Smith looks at the classical categories, which include some local names. On February 15th the 58th Grammy...
by Kile Smith | Sep 29, 2015 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, October 3rd, 5 to 6 pm Walter Piston (1894-1976): Suite for Orchestra (1929) Piston: Three New England Sketches (1959) Piston: Symphony No. 7 (1960) He won two Pulitzer Prizes, taught composers as disparate as...
by Kile Smith | Jan 9, 2013 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Saturday, January 12th, 2013, 5-6 pm on WRTI [postponed from January 5th] Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920). Bacchanale (1913, orch. 1919). Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz. Delos 3099, Tr 11. 4:24 Griffes. The White Peacock and Clouds from Roman Sketches (1915)....
