by Kile Smith | Aug 2, 2019 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries
Listen to the podcast here. Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). La valse (1919–20) It’s the Fleisher Discoveries podcast, and I’m Kile Smith. Fleisher Discoveries is produced by the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Gary...
by Kile Smith | Oct 10, 2012 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Saturday, October 13th, 2012, 5-6 pm on WRTI (2nd Saturday this month!) Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937). Violin Concerto No. 1 (1916). Nicola Benedetti, violin, London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding. Deutsche Grammophon 6154, Tr 1-3, 26:59 Szymanowski. Symphony No....
by Kile Smith | Apr 11, 2012 | Broad Street Review, Classical music
[First published in the Broad Street Review 10 April 2012.] Not loud enough. The conductor looks my way, waves a cutoff, and says, “Yes, we could use more slapstick there.” We’re rehearsing the Ravel orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an...
