Waghalter’s Violin Concerto to Receive Its New York Premiere at Carnegie Hall on November 17

Ignatz Waghalter’s Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 15 (1911), will be performed by The Orchestra Now under JoAnn Falletta, with Mira Wang as soloist, in a program titled Gershwin, Jazz, and the Music of Jewish Émigrés. The performances at the Fisher Center at Bard College on November 14 and 15, 2026 are billed as the work’s U.S. premiere, and the performance at Carnegie Hall on November 17 as its New York premiere.

The program also includes Louis Gruenberg’s Jazz Suite, Lazare Saminsky’s Vigiliae, Ernst Toch’s Comedy for Orchestra, and George Gershwin’s An American in Paris.

JoAnn Falletta has been music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra since 1999, when she became the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. One of the most widely recorded conductors of her generation, with more than 120 recordings — many of them for Naxos — she has won multiple Grammy Awards and was named by Gramophone among its “Fifty Great Conductors.”

Dates, venues, and ticket links are on the concert page.