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JoAnn Falletta
12+ albums
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JoAnn Falletta (born February 27, 1954, in Queens, New York City) is an American classical musician and orchestral conductor. Falletta was educated at the Mannes College of Music and The Juilliard School in New York City. She began her musical career as a virtuoso guitar and mandolin player, and as a teenager often was called to perform with the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic when a work called for a mandolin or guitar obligato. She entered Mannes as a guitar student, but began conducting the student orchestra at age 18, and desired a career in this field right away. While the Mannes administration raised doubts about the ability of a woman to gain a music directorship, it agreed and permitted her transfer her emphasis. After graduation, she did further study at Queens College (M.A. in orchestral conducting) and the Juilliard School of Music (M.M., D.M.A. in orchestral conducting). She studied conducting with Jorge Mester and others. In 1991, Falletta became music director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She has also served as music director of the Long Beach Symphony and of the Women's Philharmonic Orchestra (San Francisco). In May 1998, Falletta was named music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and she formally took up the post with the 1999-2000 season. During her tenure in Buffalo, the orchestra has made recordings for Naxos and returned to give concerts at Carnegie Hall. Currently the longest-serving music director in the history of the
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Piano Concerto in F major : I. Allegro moderato - Cantabile - Poco meno scherzando
2562Piano Concerto in F major : II. Andante con moto
2033Piano Concerto in F major : III. Allegro con brio
1564Second Rhapsody
1255I Got Rhythm Variations
1196Der Rosenkavalier Suite, Op. 59, TrV 227
557The Red Pony, suite for orchestra: 1. Morning on the Ranch
368Rodeo - 4 Dance Episodes: No. 2. Corral Nocturne
329Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing: Clouds of mixed Seconds
3110Phantasmagoria - Suite From The Ghosts Of Versailles
31albums
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Gershwin: Piano Concerto - Second Rhapsody - I Got Rhythm Variations
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Copland: Prairie Journal / The Red Pony Suite / Letter From Home
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Richard Strauss: Rosenkavalier (Der) Suite/Symphonic Fantasy On Die Frau Ohne Schatten/Symphonic Fragment From Josephs Legende (Falleta)
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Jerome Moross: Symphony; The Last Judgement; Variations On A Waltz
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John Luther Adams: Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing
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Griffes: Pleasure Dome Of Kubla Khan / The White Peacock
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Holst: Cotswolds Symphony - Walt Whitman Overture
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Corigliano: Violin Concerto, "The Red Violin" - Phantasmagoria
Hailstork: Orchestral Music
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Respighi: Vetrate Di Chiesa - Impressioni Brasiliane - Rossiniana
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Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Song
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Gallagher: Orchestral Music