by Kile Smith | May 3, 2019 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Podcast
Listen to the podcast here. Ricardo Castro (1864–1907). Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1887) Allegro Moderato Andante. Allegro appassionato. Poco più mosso Mazurka Polonaise: Allegro moderato [Theme] Thanks for joining me on Fleisher Discoveries, a podcast...
by Kile Smith | Jan 1, 2019 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries
Listen to the podcast here. William Henry Fry (1813–1864). Santa Claus: Christmas Symphony Hi, this is Fleisher Discoveries, a production of the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music in the Free Library of Philadelphia. Gary Galván is Curator of the...
by Kile Smith | Dec 1, 2018 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection
Listen to the podcast here. Florence Price (1887–1953). Symphony No. 1 in E minor Welcome to Fleisher Discoveries—the podcast! I’m Kile Smith, your host. This new chapter of Discoveries begins with a symphony by Florence Price, whom we’ll meet in just a moment. While...
by Kile Smith | Jul 7, 2018 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
A few days after Independence Day, we continue looking at the American composer on Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection Saturday, July 7th at 5 pm, as we have for the past few months. But on today’s program we’ll view one of the greatest of them within an...
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...
