by Kile Smith | Mar 5, 2021 | Fleisher Collection
The Fleisher Collection employed two full-time music copyists when I, a part-time copyist while working on my master’s in composition, started there in 1981. Sadie Morgan, whom I replaced in 1983 when she retired, was one. Art Daniels was the other. We sat next...
by Kile Smith | Mar 2, 2021 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Orchestral Music
Celso Garrido-Lecca (b. 1926). Symphony No. 1 (1960) Listen on Soundcloud and Spotify! Hi, and welcome to Fleisher Discoveries! I’m Kile Smith. Fleisher Discoveries is a podcast from the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music and the Free Library of...
by Kile Smith | Feb 19, 2021 | Art songs, new music, Vocal music
April Showers. A song cycle for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, and piano. 17′. Commissioned for Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson. Online premiere 23 April 2021 by soprano Stefanie Moore, mezzo-soprano Laura Mercado-Wright, tenor Dann Coakwell,...
by Kile Smith | Feb 6, 2021 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Alfredo Casella (1883–1947). Concerto for Strings, Piano, Timpani, and Percussion (1943) Primo tempo: Allegro aliquanto pesante Sarabanda Finale: Allegro molto vivace Listen on Soundcloud and Spotify! Hi, and this is Fleisher Discoveries! I’m Kile Smith. Fleisher...
by Kile Smith | Feb 5, 2021 | Photography
Through February and March, 2021, 16 of my photographs will hang on the walls of the Broad Street Grind, the wonderful coffee house in Souderton, Pa. Jackie and I have known Phillip Shade, the Grind’s owner, since college. Jackie played for Phil and...