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 | Mar 7, 2018 | Broad Street Review, Chamber Music, Fleisher Collection, new music
A tune came to me one morning as I walked down the hallway, about to turn the 180 degrees into the stairwell leading up to the third floor. That’s where I compose. I mention the tune coming to me because it hardly ever happens. It may happen to other composers, but...
by Kile Smith | Feb 26, 2018 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday March 3rd, 5:00 to 6:00 pm… It’s been said that Edwin Fleisher did not like vocal or choral music. Whether a few people have told me this, or one person told me a few times, I can’t recall, but it explained...
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...
