Gershwin, Jazz, and the Music of Jewish Émigrés

JoAnn Falletta and The Orchestra Now perform Waghalter’s Violin Concerto in A major, with Mira Wang as soloist, at the Fisher Center at Bard College and at Carnegie Hall.

Program

Louis Gruenberg — Jazz Suite
Ignatz Waghalter — Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 15 (1911)
Mira Wang, violin
Lazare Saminsky — Vigiliae, Triad of Poems
Ernst Toch — Comedy for Orchestra in One Movement
George Gershwin — An American in Paris

The Orchestra Now · JoAnn Falletta, conductor

The conductor

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.”

The concerto

Waghalter composed his Violin Concerto in A major in 1911, in Berlin. Long out of the repertoire, it was first recorded by Irmina Trynkos and Alexander Walker for Naxos in 2012. The Fisher Center performances are billed as the work’s U.S. premiere, and the Carnegie Hall performance as its New York premiere.

See the catalogue of works and the recordings.