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Coming up on Kile Smith's monthly radio show Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection on Saturday, April 2, from 5 to 6 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 FM Philadelphia and webcast live at www.wrti.org:

• Maurice Wright (b.1949). Concerto for trombone, string orchestra, and harp (2004). Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Nitzan Haroz, Karl Middleman.
• François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829). Symphony in E-flat Major, Op. 5, No. 2 (c.1761-62). London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert.
• Interview with Maurice Wright

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Our own Kile Smith presents the monthly radio show Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection on the first Saturday of each month from 5 to 6 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 FM Philadelphia and webcast live at www.wrti.org. 

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.

Saturday, March 5th, 2004, 5 to 6 pm

• John Powell (1882-1963). Rhapsodie nègre, for piano and orchestra (1918), 16:19 . Los Angeles Philharmonic, Calvin Simmons, Zita Carno. New World Records 80228.
• John Powell. Symphony in A Major, “Virginia Symphony” (1945) movements 1, 4, 26:06. Virginia Symphony, JoAnn Falletta. Albany 589.
• Interview with Rolf Charlston.

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