Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection
Presenting music from the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music in the Free Library of Philadelphia, on the first Saturday of each month from 5 to 6 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 FM. Hosted by Kile Smith, Curator of the Fleisher Collection, and Jack Moore, Program Director of WRTI. In Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, we uncover the unknown, rediscover the little-known, and take a fresh look at some of the remarkable treasures housed in the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music in the Free Library of Philadelphia. The Fleisher Collection is the largest lending library of orchestral performance material in the world. (For full details on each program, click on the pdf icon.)
Encore presentations of Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection are now airing and webstreaming every Wednesday night from 7 to 8 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 FM, HD2.
2008
January 5, 2008. Irving Schlein
February 9, 2008. John Knowles Paine
March 1, 2008. Carl Ruggles
April 5, 2008. Louis Spohr
May 3, 2008. Horatio Parker
2007
January 6, 2007. W.A. Mozart, Engelbert Humperdinck, Nicolai Berezowsky, J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Michael Bach, Michael Praetorius, Ottorino Respighi
February 3, 2007. Franz Strauss, Nicolai Lopatnikoff
March 3, 2007. Harold Davidson, Gerald Strang, William Russell, John J. Becker, Johanna Beyer, John Cage, interview with Christopher Shultis
April 7, 2007. Joel Suben, Alan Hovhaness
May 5, 2007. Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Louis Moreau Gottschalk
June 2, 2007. Wilhelm Bernhard Molique, Louis Gesensway
July 7, 2007. Florencio Asenjo, George Frederick Bristow
August 4, 2007. David Raksin, Nancy Van de Vate
September 1, 2007. Johann Strauss Jr., Victor Herbert, Stephen Cohn
October 20, 2007. Amy Beach
November 3, 2007. Joaquín Rodrigo
December 1, 2007. Gene Gutchë
2006
January 7, 2006. Ilja Hurník
February 4, 2006. Vladimir Ptushkin, interview with conductor Gavriel Heine
March 4, 2006. Jerzy Gablenz, interview with Thomas and George Gablenz
April 1, 2006. Lili Boulanger, Vivian Fine, Florence Price
May 6, 2006. Thomas Schnauber, Anton Rubinstein, interview with Jason Love
June 3, 2006. Josef Reicha, Eugen D’Albert, interview with Jeffrey Solow
July 1, 2006. Charles Ives
August 5, 2006. Carlo Gesualdo, Kile Smith
September 2, 2006. Miklós Rózsa, Robert Russell Bennett
October 7, 2006. Pablo Sarasate, Sir John Blackwood McEwen, Rachel Barton Pine / Alasdair Fraser, interview with Rachel Barton Pine
November 4, 2006. Tibor Serly, Geoffrey Peterson, interview with Geoffrey Peterson
December 2, 2006. Louis Gesensway, Jules Massenet
2005
January 8, 2005. Karl Stamitz, Clermont Pépin, interview with Clermont Pépin
February 19, 2005. Amy Beach, Ernst Bacon, interview with Ellen Bacon
March 5, 2005. John Powell, interview with Rolf Charlston
April 2, 2005. Maurice Wright, François-Joseph Gossec, interview with Maurice Wright
May 7, 2005. Eugen d’Albert, Gösta Nystroem, interview with Nystroem daughter Mona Batt
June 4, 2005. Harold Boatrite, Antonio Rosetti, interview with Boatrite and harpsichordist Temple Painter
July 2, 2005. Jeremy Beck, George Chadwick, interview with Jeremy Beck
August 6, 2005. Mily Balakirev, César Cui, interview with pianist Joseph Banowetz
September 3, 2005. Josef Geringer, Jerzy Gablenz, interview with Geringer daughter Lilly Drukker
October 8, 2005. Harry Hewitt, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Meyer Kupferman
November 5, 2005. Aaron Copland, David Dzubay, Emma Lou Diemer, interview with David Dzubay
December 3, 2005. Gardner Read, Ann Wyeth McCoy
2004
January 3, 2004. Joseph Achron, Emma Lou Diemer, interview with Emma Lou Diemer
February 7, 2004. Arthur Foote, Karl Boelter, Lou Harrison
March 6, 2004. Clara Schumann, Hans Huber
April 10, 2004. John Biggs, George Lloyd
May 1, 2004. Marcel Farago, interview with Marcel Farago and conductor Rossen Milanov
June 5, 2004. Jacobo Ficher, Henry Hadley, interview with Jacobo Ficher son Miguel Ficher
July 3, 2004. Florencio Asenjo, Franz Lachner, interview with Florencio Asenjo
August 7, 2004. William Henry Fry, Dean Rishel, interview with Dean Rishel
September 4, 2004. Dudley Buck, Raoul Pleskow, Adolph Weiss, interview with Raoul Pleskow and saxophonist Marshall Taylor
October 16, 2004. Frederick Shepherd Converse, Lee Hoiby, interview with Lee Hoiby and Free Library Director Elliot Shelkrot
November 6, 2004. Stephen Dodgson, interview with Stephen Dodgson and flutist Robert Stallman
December 4, 2004. Ignaz Moscheles, Joseph Kasinskas, Frank James Staneck, interview with Joseph Kasinskas, violinist Bridget Kasinskas, Frank James Staneck, and conductor Philip Travaline
2003
January 4, 2003. Louis Spohr, Peter Zagar
February 1, 2003. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ernst Bacon, Fridrich Bruk
March 1, 2003. Ferruccio Busoni, Gene Gutchë
April 5, 2003. Emanuel Leplin
May 3, 2003. Arne Running, David Finko, interview with Arne Running, David Finko, and conductor James Freeman
June 7, 2003. Victor Herbert, George Szell
July 5, 2003. Louis Gruenberg, Harl McDonald
August 2, 2003. Romeo Cascarino, George Chadwick
September 6, 2003. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Wolfgang Mozart, interview with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and conductor Donald Spieth
October 4, 2003. Clifford Vaughan, Henry F. Gilbert
November 1, 2003. George Frederick McKay, Henry Vieuxtemps
December 6, 2003. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Henry Fry, interview with violinist Rachel Barton Pine
2002
September 7, 2002. William Henry Fry, Lou Harrison, Jules Massenet
October 5, 2002. Aaron Avshalomov, Jacob Avshalomov, Burnet Tuthill, interview with conductor JoAnn Falletta, clarinetist Robert Alemany
November 2, 2002. Horatio Parker, George Chadwick, John Biggs
December 7, 2002. Joachim Raff, Clermont Pèpin, Lee Hoiby
