A Memory
Recently a CD of turn of the century symphonic works was released on the Naxos label. Entitled American Romantics III , the CD includes works by Carl Busch, Edward MacDowell, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Cecil Burleigh, Ludwig Bonvin, David Stanley Smith and Gena Branscombe. The music is performed by the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Reuben Blundell . All the music on the CD was provided by the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia . Edwin Fleisher (1877-1959) did not intend to have an orchestral library but rather a Symphony Club that trained students interested in playing orchestral music. One of the first employees of the Symphony Club was William Happich (1884-1959), a teacher and conductor. For his students, Happich would arrange works from the collection. Miss Branscombe’s violin and piano work, “A Memory” was arranged for harp and strings. The work is beautiful...