From Cramton Auditorium at Howard University in Washington, D.C., April 30th, 1961, Howard Mitchell leads the National Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of the Symphony in Four Parts by Cuban American composer Aurelio de la Vega.
Another very rare American International Music Fund tape digitized by the Fleisher Collection.

Fleisher Discoveries - May 2021: de la Vega (AIMF)

The world premiere of Robert Bernat's In Memoriam John F. Kennedy by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Discoveries - November 2021: Robert Bernat In Memoriam John F. Kennedy

Recordings of music from Gene Gutchë and Ernest Bloch from digitized AIMF tapes in the Fleisher Collection Archives.

Discoveries - May 2022: Gutchë, Bloch, America

Discoveries - August 2022: A Memorial from, and for, Berezowsky

2023 01 Schuller, Russo, and a 3rd Stream

Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 6 [FLC # 1967]

Fleisher Discoveries - February 2023: Jean Sibelius

A spring celebration with Roy Harris, Mary Howe, and Joachim Raff.

usic of Mary Howe

Fleisher Discoveries - March 2023: Harris, Howe, and Raff

Amy Beach's 1899 Piano Concerto performed by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Schermerhorn with Alan Feinberg as soloist.

Fleisher Discoveries - May 2023: Amy Beach, American Phenom

Fleisher Discoveries - June 2023: Shostakovich's War

Fleisher Discoveries - July 2023: Frank Bridge, Summer, and The Sea

Leo Sowerby (1895-1968)
•	 From the Northland (1924), Czech National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Freeman
•	All on a Summer’s Day (1954). Louisville Orchestra conducted by Robert Whitney

Fleisher Discoveries - August 2023: Leo Sowerby and the Sense of the Joy

Concerto for Orchestra (1948) and Six Dances for String Orchestra by Ulysses Kay (1917-1995)

Fleisher Discoveries - September 2023: "As I see them," Ulysses Kay

Symphony No. 3 [FLC 5837] performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of José Serebrier

Fleisher Discoveries - October 2023 Ned Rorem's 100th

Symphony No. 3 by American composer Jackson Hill

Fleisher Discoveries - November 2023 Jackson Hill, Symphony No. 3

British conductor and pianist Wayne Marshall, OBE, leads a performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue from the piano!

Fleisher Discoveries - February 2024: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue at 100

Fleisher Discoveries - March 2024: Marianne Martines

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in our featured performance of Symphony of Psalms (1930).

Fleisher Discoveries - April 2024: Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms

Fleisher Discoveries - May 2024: Brahms Academic Overture

Fleisher Discoveries - June 2024: Kile Smith Symphony

We go back to the beginning and the Symphony Club's first concert in 1912. Fleisher Discoveries features Romance (1881) by Johan Severin Svendson (1840-1911), Petite suite (1892) by Ole Olsen (1850-1927) and the Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26 (1866) by Max Bruch (1838-1920).

Fleisher Discoveries - July 2024: The Symphony Club's First Concert

Karen Arnheim (b. 1970)
*Bestiary (2005-2009) (selections)
    I. Phoenix; III. Idyll; IV. Griffin; VIII. Parade
*Symphony of Seasons (2000) (selections)
     I. Autumn: Anthem and 7 variations
*Eye of the Phoebus (selections)
     I.Prelude; II. Passacaglia; III. Badinerie	
*Little Nemo in Slumberland 		
     I. Fanfare (Dreams of Little Nemo	
     II. The Clock Strikes Nine/King Morpheus/Morpheus’ Message/Little 
     III. Nemo/Flip
     IV. The Princess
     V. Doctor Pill
     VI. Nemo’s Adventure
     VII. The Clock Strikes Eleven
     VIII. Farewell Little Nemo

Fleisher Discoveries - March 2025: Karen Amrhein

World premiere recordings of "They Dance in the Wind" by Kevin Arthur Jr., "Cloud Sprawl" by Courtney Evans, and Couplet for Strings" by Joshua Foy.

Fleisher Discoveries - April 2025: Kaleidoscope Initiative

Fleisher Discoveries - May 2025: A Britain and a Brit

The Fleisher Collections Discoveries program has officially moved to a podcast. In our first installment, we feature the music of Florence Price. Musical tracks have been used with permission from Albany Records.
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/post/3569

Fleisher Discoveries - December 2018: Florence Price

Fleisher Discoveries - September 2019: Schubert "The Great"

The Fleisher Collection celebrates the bicentennials of American writers Herman Melville and Walt Whitman with tone poems inspired by their works and composed by American composers Peter Mennin and Frederick Converse

Fleisher Discoveries - October 2019: Mennin and Converse

Kile Smith hosts a program on works for voice and orchestra by Beethoven, Wagner, and Ravel in the Fleisher Collection. Two performances by Kirsten Flagstad.

Fleisher Discoveries - December 2019: Beethoven, Wagner, Ravel

Fleisher Discoveries presents music by two American-born composer:
♪ City Trees by Alden Beach - world premiere recording by the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra, Reuben Blundell conducting.
♪ Pyramid by Molly Kien - world premiere recording by the Västerås Sinfonietta, Eva Ollikainen conducting.

Fleisher Discoveries - March 2020: Alden Beach and Molly Kien

A rare recording from the first season of the American International Music Fund. Lukas Foss conducts his own Symphony of Chorales with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Fleisher Discoveries - December 2020: Lukas Foss (AIMF)

The Concerto for Strings, Piano, Timpani, and Percussion (1943) by Alfredo Casella performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in a concert from January 26th, 1959. Claudio Arrau is the pianist, and Paul Kletzki conducts.
A digitized tape from the American International Music Fund Recording Guarantee Project sponsored by the Koussevitzky Foundation.

Fleisher Discoveries - February 2021: Alfredo Casella (AIMF)

Fleisher Discoveries is a monthly podcast hosted by Special Collections Curator of Music Dr. Gary Galván and dedicated to playing some of the remarkable treasures housed in the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music.

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