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    WILLIAM HENRY FRY (1813-1864)


    ORCHESTRAL WORKS

    The Breaking Heart [Adagio Sostenuto], sym. (1852)
    Score: Fleisher Collection. Fleisher Collection 6798
    MS at the Library Company of Philadelphia
    Recording:
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Tony Rowe
    Excerpt on American Classics Sampler (Naxos) (Duration: 10:59)

    A Day in the Country, sym. (1852) Rosenthal Archives, Chicago;
    Score:  Fleisher Collection. Fleisher Collection U-6182
    MS: In Theodore Thomas Music Library Manuscript Collection, LC
    Recording: performed by Vanderbilt University Orchestra 13 Nov 2021, transcription by Douglas Shadle. See, NOTES. (Duration: 15:00). For a copy of the performance video, contact Douglas Shadle, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University.

    Santa Claus (Christmas Sym.) (1853)
    Score: Fleisher Collection. Fleisher Collection 8467

    Publication: Philadelphia, PA: Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, Free Library of Philadelphia, 2020, with biographical and historical notes by Gary Galvin, Music Special Collections Curator, Free Library of Philadelphia. Score and parts.

    Full score MS at the Library Company of Philadelphia

    Recording: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Tony Rowe (Duration: 26:21)

    Niagara Symphony (1854)
    Score: Fleisher Collection. Fleisher Collection 8109
    Publication: Philadelphia: Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music. Score and parts
    MS at the Library Company of Philadelphia

    Recording: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Tony Rowe. 
    Also: Classics of American Romanticism, Bridge Records (CD). The Orchestra Now, Botstein (Duration: 13:45)

    Hagar in the Wilderness (Sacred Sym. no.3) (1854)
    Score: Fleisher Collection. Fleisher Collection 5384. MS Score and parts.
    MS at the Library Company of Philadelphia

    Evangeline Overture (1860)
    Score: Fleisher Collection. Fleisher Collection 5364. MS score and parts
    MS at the Library Company of Philadelphia

    Macbeth Overture with chorus (1862)
    Score: Fleisher Collection. Fleisher Collection 4204. Score and parts.
    MS at the Library Company of Philadelphia
    Recording:
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Tony Rowe, conductor
    (Duration: 10:37)
    The Story of American Classical Music. Naxos

    Leonora Overture
    Score: Fleisher Collection 

    The Dying Soldier (Dramatic Sym.)
    Score: Fleisher Collection
    MS full score at the Library Company of Philadelphia

    Aurelia Overture (not on NG list)
    Score: Fleisher Collection 

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