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...
by Kile Smith | May 1, 2017 | Classical music, Fleisher Collection, Orchestral Music, Radio, WRTI
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday 5–6 pm on WRTI-FM… One hundred years ago, 18-year-old Francis Poulenc was looking for a composition teacher, and being recommended by the pianist Ricardo Viñes to Maurice Ravel, went to meet him, scores in...
by Kile Smith | Apr 26, 2017 | American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
All varieties of vernacular show up this week on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 29th at 9 pm on WRTI.org and WRTI-HD2. With movements like Sip ’N Stir (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Ramada Inn (Exit 1, New Jersey Turnpike), it sure sounds like Michael Daugherty, and those...
