Ignatz Waghalter’s New World Suite received its world premiere performance on May 17, 2019. The Israeli-born conductor Ariel Zuckermann led the Filharmonia Poznańska in Poznań, Poland. The concert also featured the Concerto for Piano by Karol Rathaus (1895-1954). The soloist was the Canadian-born pianist, Daniel Wnukowski. The performance was broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Both …
The world premiere performance of Ignatz Waghalter’s New World Suite will be given by Filhamonia Poznańska in Poznań, Poland, on Friday, May 17, 2019. The orchestra will be led by the Israeli-born conductor Ariel Zuckerman. Since 2015 Maestro Zuckermann, who is 46, has been the director and conductor of the Israeli Chamber …
Seventy years ago, on the morning of April 7, 1949, Ignatz Waghalter, died suddenly of a massive heart attack in his New York City apartment on Central Park West. He was 68 years old. Waghalter’s death came almost exactly 12 years after he had arrived in the United States, having …
Ignatz Waghalter’s Violin Concerto in A Major, Opus 15, was performed in Gorzow, Poland, on Friday, March 22, 2019. The Filharmonia Gorzowska was conducted by Marek Piyarowski. The soloist was Aleksandra Kuls. The concert program also included Stanisław Moniuszko’s Overture to the opera Paria and Sergei Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Opus …
In 1937, while living in Vienna, Ignatz Waghalter composed Ahasuerus und Ester, based on the Biblical story of the Jewish Queen of Persia who risks her life to save her people from destruction. It is not difficult to understand why Waghalter was drawn to this story. Hamen, the malevolent adviser to the …
On November 7, 1912, conductor Ignatz Waghalter opened the newly-constructed Deutsches Opernhaus in the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg with a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio. In November 2012, the centenary of the founding of the opera house (now known as the Deutsche Oper), was celebrated with the premier of Overture 1912, a film …
In the Berlin of the 1920s, Rudolf Nelson (1878-1960) was a dominant figure in the city’s popular musical scene. A master of “kleine kunst,” the “Revues” that he staged at the Metropol Theater featured many of the leading artists of the time. An astonishingly prolific composer, his songs were sung by such …
In an interview with the British documentarist Hugo Berkeley, David Waghalter Green places his grandfather’s conception of the socially-committed artist within the context of the political upheavals of the 1930s and the twentieth century as a whole.
On March 22, 2017, Atlanta’s NPR-affiliated station, WABE, featured the “Songs Not Silenced” concert – devoted to the music of composers whose music was banned by the Nazis – at Kennesaw State University. Lois Reitzes, the moderator of City Lights, a program devoted to the coverage of Atlanta’s cultural life, interviewed Laurence Sherr, …
Ignatz Waghalter was one of Germany’s greatest operatic conductors in the first decades of the twentieth century. Fortunately he left behind a substantial legacy of recordings that attest to his interpretive powers. A new section has been added to this web site, in which a substantial portion of his recorded …
