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...
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...
