Sat May 8 · 3:00pm
May Concert
Music director Michael Korn leads the Waltham Philharmonic in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A minor, Op. 33, John Williams’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Amy Beach’s Symphony No. 2, the Gaelic. Beach’s symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. Williams wrote his concerto, away from film, in memory of his first wife, Barbara Ruick.