by Kile Smith | Aug 1, 2022 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
He threw spitballs at Rasputin. He escaped the Soviets. He wrote concertos and symphonies for the biggest names. For a time he was bigger, some said, than Copland. But it didn’t last. Nicolai Berezowsky (1900–1953). Symphony No. 4 (1942) Listen on SoundCloud...
by Kile Smith | Jul 1, 2022 | American music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Aaron Copland became the leading voice of his generation, led there by Damrosch, Koussevitzky, and a composition teacher who happened to play the organ, Nadia Boulanger. Aaron Copland (1900–1990). Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (1924) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on...
by Kile Smith | Dec 2, 2020 | American music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries
Lukas Foss (1922–2009). Symphony of Chorales (1955–58) Listen on Soundcloud and Spotify! Hi, I’m Kile Smith, and this is Fleisher Discoveries! Fleisher Discoveries is a podcast from the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music and the Free Library of...
by Kile Smith | Jul 11, 2015 | American music, Choral music, WRTI
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk…] In this week in July of 1940, one of the most-loved and most-sung choral works, written by a composer living in Philadelphia, was premiered in western Massachusetts. I look at how Randall Thompson’s Alleluia is almost...
by Kile Smith | Jun 8, 2013 | CD Reviews, Classical music, Radio, WRTI
The last of six brief descriptions of music I’ve written up for WRTI’s 60th Anniversary Classical Collection of listener favorites. Here is a fuller description of the project, under the first post, the Ave Maria of Franz Biebl. Randall Thompson: Alleluia....