by Kile Smith | Mar 1, 2023 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Calling on spring with a trio of pieces, two from Americans Roy Harris and Mary Howe, and one from a German, Joachim Raff. Roy Harris (1898–1979). Kentucky Spring (1949) Mary Howe (1882–1964). Spring Pastorale (1936) Joachim Raff...
by Kile Smith | Jan 4, 2023 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
On our New Year’s show, another example of the power of concert music to constantly reinvent itself as it reaches out to, and accepts, every kind of music into its orbit. Gunther Schuller (1925–2015). Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee (1959) William Russo...
by Kile Smith | Nov 2, 2022 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Elgar promoted him, his music sold hundreds of thousands of copies, he was as big as Elton John or Paul McCartney, but he died in poverty. So the music industry changed. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912). Symphonic Variations on an African Air (1905)...
by Kile Smith | Oct 1, 2022 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
He was the assistant conductor at the Bavarian State Opera, then assistant at Augsburg Opera, then Kapellmeister, but Hitler came to power, and the purge of Jews began. So he went to Palestine. He was forbidden to work under the terms of his travel visa. So he changed...
by Kile Smith | Jun 1, 2022 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Bloch would take the path down from his cottage to Agate Beach, and there he would write out the expositions to all 48 fugues in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, from memory. Gene Gutchë (1907–2000). Epimetheus USA (1968) Ernest Bloch (1880–1959). Suite modale (1956)...
by Kile Smith | May 3, 2022 | Classical music, Podcast
With $500 from his father for school, the 18-year-old ran away from home, leaving Europe on a ship to the US, and ending up in Galveston, Texas. He knew six languages, but not one of them was English. Gene Gutchë (1907–2000). Symphony VI (1970) Listen on SoundCloud...
