by Kile Smith | Jul 1, 2019 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries
Listen to the podcast here. Paul Hindemith (1895–1963). Symphony in E-flat (1940) [Theme] It’s Fleisher Discoveries, a podcast produced by the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia. I’m Kile Smith. All the Fleisher...
by Kile Smith | May 27, 2018 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On Fleisher Discoveries, Saturday June 2nd, 5–6 pm… As we’ve noted in other Discoveries programs, Edwin Fleisher did not, in 1909, intend to found an “Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music”; rather, he started the Symphony Club. This was a place—he...
by Kile Smith | Apr 30, 2018 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, String Orchestra, WRTI
We keep one composer and swap out two from last month’s American Romantics program on Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection. The two new composers are two Arthurs—Bird and Foote—and we’ll hear music they first wrote for other purposes. Arthur Foote’s Theme and...
by Kile Smith | Apr 2, 2018 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, April 7th, 5–6 pm… The history of a musical era is as difficult to capture as the history of a house. If your house was built in, say, 1880, you might fill it with Victorian furniture and feel satisfied with...
by Kile Smith | Jan 29, 2018 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, Feb. 3rd, 5 to 6 pm… There’s that video that’s made the rounds on YouTube for years, Leonard Bernstein not conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the Finale of the Haydn Symphony No. 88. Right, not...
by Kile Smith | Aug 3, 2017 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, WRTI
We heard Charles Ives by way of William Schuman last month on Discoveries, so it’s appropriate that we should hear Schuman on his own this month. You may remember that Ives had composed Variations on “America” for organ in 1891; William Schuman orchestrated it in 1964...
