by Kile Smith | Oct 2, 2023 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Ned Rorem (1923–2022). Third Symphony (1958) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify His accomplishment in art song has had the unfortunate effect of overshadowing his orchestral music, especially so his symphonies. Hi everybody, I’m Kile Smith, and welcome to Fleisher...
by Kile Smith | Sep 1, 2023 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Ulysses Kay (1917–1995). Concerto for Orchestra (1948) Kay. Six Dances for String Orchestra (1954) Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify When Kay’s mother asked her uncle, famed jazz cornetist Joe “King” Oliver, if young Ulysses should take trumpet...
by Kile Smith | Aug 3, 2023 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Leo Sowerby very well may be the most-famous-while-alive and least-famous-now composer we’ve looked at. Leo Sowerby (1895–1968). From the Northland (1924) Sowerby. All on a Summer’s Day (1954) Hi everybody, I’m Kile Smith, and...
by Kile Smith | Jul 4, 2023 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify It’s easy to tag Frank Bridge with the “British pastoral” label and leave it at that, but if we think about it, the language here is au courant, and not a little revolutionary. To pigeonhole Frank Bridge as some Edwardian...
by Kile Smith | Jun 5, 2023 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify He had been honored, but he had also been targeted. His life hung by a thread, suspended by the frivolous and vengeful will of Stalin. At times he fully expected to be killed. To him, Nazis and Communists were all cut from the...
by Kile Smith | May 2, 2023 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify Take all of them, the symphonists, opera composers, heads of conservatories, touring pianists. George Whitefield Chadwick, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote: who was the most-performed American...
