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...
by Kile Smith | Jan 2, 2018 | Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
In the cold of the new year, warm up to Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection and the music of the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas on Saturday, January 6th, 5 to 6 pm. The music of Silvestre Revueltas is infused with the sounds of Mexico, whether actual or...
by Kile Smith | Nov 26, 2017 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Volkmar Andreae (1879–1962). Kleine Suite (1917) Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959). Uirapurú (1917) Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953). Symphony No. 1 “Classical” (1917) On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, December 2nd, 5–6 pm… We celebrated...
by Kile Smith | Oct 28, 2017 | church music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Lutheran, WRTI
Anniversaries bump into each other on this Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday at 5 pm on WRTI. It’s year 500 since the beginning of the Reformation, almost to the day, when Martin Luther posted 95 theological and ecclesiastical points he wished to...
by Kile Smith | Oct 3, 2017 | Baroque music, Classical music, Radio, WRTI
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, Oct. 7th, 5 to 6 pm… Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) is the “Father of the Symphony” in the same way that George Washington (born the same year) is the “Father of our Country.” Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration...
