by Kile Smith | Apr 3, 2023 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Listen on SoundCloud Listen on Spotify The 75th anniversary of the first televised broadcast of the complete Ninth Symphony of Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Symphony No. 9 (1824) Hi everybody, I’m Kile Smith, and welcome to Fleisher Discoveries....
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 | Feb 1, 2023 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Exactly 100 years have passed, new ideas have come and gone, waves of new music have crashed and receded, yet Sibelius and his church modes in 1923 seem more and more to be something we never considered: revolutionary. Jean Sibelius (1865–1957). Symphony No. 6 (1923)...
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 | Dec 2, 2022 | Fleisher Collection, Fleisher Discoveries, Podcast
Twenty-two years and while we’ve had a few Christmas pieces on Fleisher Discoveries, we’ve never done a Christmas show, until now. Frank Bridge (1879–1941). A Christmas Dance, Sir Roger de Coverley, for strings (1923) Alec Rowley (1892–1958). from...
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)...
