by Kile Smith | Sep 2, 2022 | American music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Music Composition
She founded a pioneering group for women composers and a successful independent record label. She taught in Tennessee, Hawaii, Jakarta, and Vienna. But what made Nancy Van de Vate happiest was composing—for orchestra. Nancy Van de Vate (b. 1930). Distant Worlds, for...
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 | Feb 1, 2022 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
A passacaglia is an ever-unfolding imagining of a single theme, over and over, like the living of a life. Richard Yardumian (1917–1985). Passacaglia, Recitatives and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra (1957) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Hi everybody, I’m Kile...
by Kile Smith | Dec 31, 2021 | American music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Orchestral Music, Podcast
It’s debatable how much power 12-tone music held over classical music in the 20th century, but power it certainly had. Then an inside man dropped a bombshell. A look at George Rochberg. George Rochberg (1918–2005). Symphony No. 1 (1949–57) Listen on SoundCloud Listen...
by Kile Smith | Nov 2, 2021 | American music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
The world premiere of a piece remembering a tragic day many Novembers ago, and the unlikely but wise choice of its composer. Robert Bernat (1931–1994). In Memoriam John F. Kennedy, Passacaglia for Orchestra (1966) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Hi everybody,...
by Kile Smith | Oct 1, 2021 | American music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Iowa, Paris, Russian and Ukrainian and German Americans, New York City, a Swiss watch company, a radio station, a library, salvaged reel-to-reel tapes, and a dandy piece for cello and strings: Only in America. Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Roger Goeb...
