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...
by Kile Smith | Sep 19, 2017 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Radio, WRTI
Coming up on Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, September 2nd, 5 to 6 pm: Part of the joy of producing Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection is in the finding of connections. We’ve seen, for instance, how the German-English Frederick Delius became...
by Kile Smith | Aug 3, 2017 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, WRTI
We heard Charles Ives by way of William Schuman last month on Discoveries, so it’s appropriate that we should hear Schuman on his own this month. You may remember that Ives had composed Variations on “America” for organ in 1891; William Schuman orchestrated it in 1964...
by Kile Smith | Jun 25, 2017 | American music, Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Orchestral Music, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection July 1, 5–6 pm: Charles Ives (1874–1954). Variations on “America” (1891), arr. William Schumann Ives. Symphony No. 2 (1901) Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection starts the Independence Day weekend with that...
by Kile Smith | Jun 7, 2017 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Orchestral Music, WRTI
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday June 6th, 5 to 6 pm… In the last Discoveries we took a snapshot of Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Poulenc from 100 years ago. Each was from a different world of French music. Camille Saint-Saëns was old: older than the...
by Kile Smith | May 5, 2017 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s the spirit of jazz on Now Is the Time, Saturday, May 6th at 9 pm on WRTI.org and WRTI-HD2. We wanted to call #three “Pound Three” but our (increasingly numerous, as the years go by) younger colleagues said, “Hashtag. Duh.” Unperturbed, we contacted...
