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Bliss Michelson, 1949–2021
Bliss Michelson in the WRTI broadcast studio. There’s a warm remembrance of Bliss on the WRTI website, along with a lovely note by Debra Lew Harder. He died last week from COVID-19, following his wife...
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The Young Richard Strauss
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...
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MacDowell and Strausses
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...
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American Romantics, Other Cultures, and the Beginning of the Collection:...
Thunderbird totem, Victoria, British Columbia 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...
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American Romantics 2: Bird, Chadwick, and Foote
The Harmonium: Mrs. Meigs at the Piano Organ, William Merritt Chase, 1883 We keep one composer and swap out two from last month’s American Romantics program on Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection....
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American Romantics: Chadwick, Foster, and Busch
Stephen Foster 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,...
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Mahler and Voices
Gustav Mahler, by Emil Orlik, 1902 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...
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At 100, What Bernstein Is All About
Leonard Bernstein, 1918–1990 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...
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Silvestre Revueltas: A Real and Imagined Mexico
A view of the island of Janitzio 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...
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1917 in Review: Andreae, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev
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...
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Reformation and Mendelssohn and Bach
Detail of the door of the Castle Church, Wittenburg 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...
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The Symphony’s Declaration of Independence
The palace at Mannheim 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...
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The Connections of Niels Gade
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...
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The Stealth Populism of William Schuman and Jaromir Weinberger
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...
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Charles Ives and Independence
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...
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The Dance of Ravel and Satie
Satie, Moulin de la Galette (“The Bohemian”), Ramon Casas, 1891 Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday June 6th, 5 to 6 pm… In the last Discoveries we took a snapshot of Saint-Saëns, Ravel,...
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Bubbling Up on Now Is the Time
from the CD cover, Juri Seo: Mostly Piano 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...
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Poulenc Couldn’t Believe What Ravel Said about Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns 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...
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Lounge Lizards on Now Is the Time
from the CD 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...
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Easter Weekend on Now Is the Time
Gravestone detail from Evan Chambers CD, The Old Burying Ground Life awaits its birth this Saturday before Easter on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 15th at 9 pm on WRTI.org and WRTI-HD2. Evan...
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