by Kile Smith | Apr 1, 2021 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Aaron Copland (1900–1990). The Tender Land, Orchestral Suite (1958) 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...
by Kile Smith | Mar 18, 2021 | Fleisher Discoveries, WRTI
There’s a warm remembrance of Bliss on the WRTI website, along with a lovely note by Debra Lew Harder. He died last week from COVID-19, following his wife Peggy, who was taken by the pandemic only a fortnight earlier. So sad. I had seen Bliss playing in the bass...
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 June 2021 by soprano Stefanie Moore, mezzo-soprano Laura Mercado-Wright, tenor Dann Coakwell, baritone...
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...