by Kile Smith | Aug 8, 2023 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music, Radio
Wireless. 2023, A cantata for TTBB, soprano saxophone, harp (or piano), 32’. Commissioned by Chor Leoni, Vancouver, Canada, Erick Lichte Artistic Director, through the Chor Leoni Diane Loomer Commissioning Fund. Premiered 10, 11 May 2024, Chor Leoni, Julia Nolan,...
by Kile Smith | Dec 30, 2019 | CDs, Choral music, Radio
The Arc in the Sky is receiving more and more airplay from around the country and even internationally! At the end of the year, these are the stations we know about so far. A big Thank-You from me, The Crossing, and Navona Records to the hosts, program directors, and...
by Kile Smith | Aug 12, 2018 | Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, August 4, 5–6 pm… We had a taste of Richard Strauss on our last Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, a program with another Strauss, Johann Jr., and Edward MacDowell. Today we’ll look just at Richard...
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 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...
