Joelle Wallach has a major orchestral Premiere coming very soon: World Premiere – The Firefighter's Prayer - Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 8:00 PM - St. Louis Symphony – On-Stage at Powell Symphony Hall - Joe Damon Chappel, baritone and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra strings.

As Joelle wrote, "On the windshields of fire trucks and firehouse windows around the United States, copies of the traditional Firefighter's Prayer are glued. For generations, its traditional words have had personal meaning to firefighters across the continent, a core of faith for lives built on daily acts of bravery and heroism."

The Firefighter's Prayer is also available for tenor and piano, for baritone and piano and as a duet for tenor, baritone and piano. Much more about this moving post- 9/11 work that the composer wrote with bereaved firefighters can be found at: http://www.joellewallach.com/hope.html. Ms. Wallach will also be giving a pre-concert lecture at 6 PM on February 20th at the Symphony's home, Powell Hall, 718 North Grand Blvd. in St. Louis, Missouri.

On Thursday, March 29 at 8:00 PM, French horn soloist Jennifer Scriggins Brummett will perform the West Coast Premiere of Ms. Wallach's In a Dark Time for French horn and piano at Washington State University in Seattle, Washington. More about the piece at http://www.joellewallach.com/in_a_dark_time.html.

Ms. Wallach will also be delivering several important lectures in New York this winter and spring, including:

The American Songbook as Melting Pot Mosaic: The Gershwins and the Dream of American Opera – Parts I, II and III
January 26, February 23 and March 29 - 4:00-6:00 PM
92nd Street Y School of Music
92nd Street and Lexington Avenue
More information at http://www.92y.org or
http://www.joellewallach.com/lectures.html

Haydn, Beethoven and Berio
March 5 at 6:30PM
March 6 at 6:30 PM
March 7 at 1:00 PM
March 8 at 7:00 PM
New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lectures - Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center.

Ms. Wallach will speak about varieties of musical intimacy in works by Haydn, Beethoven and Berio. More about this at http://nyphil.org/ or http://www.joellewallach.com/lectures.html

Joelle Wallach, Sweet Briar College's Visiting Artist this spring, will give 3 public talks on Modernism, Postmodernism and Neo-Romanticism in the Music of Today
April 23 at 1:30 PM
April 23 at 4:30 PM
April 24 at 2 PM

Sweet Briar College, Babcock Hall, Sweet Briar, Virginia For more information, contact (434) 381-612 or nross@sbc.edu.

Wallach songs are being compiled and mastered for a projected CD series of Wallach songs: Five new songs were recorded this December by soprano Janice Hall and pianist Eric Sedgewick. Look at Joelle's website to hear them newly posted as MP3's.

The American Chamber Ensemble and Joelle Wallach have begun planning brand-new recordings of the Wallach's works the ACE has premiered over 3 decades of this performer/composer collaboration. When composers and performers feel an affinity, they often stimulate and challenge one another. Thus it has been for Joelle Wallach and the American Chamber Ensemble, Naomi Drucker and Blanche Abram, directors, since the early '80's when they first premiered Wallach's woodwind works.

A critically acclaimed CD of Wallach's works for strings is available on the Capstone label (CPS-8689): Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing:

This exquisite recording features performances by the Meridian Quartet, National Slovak Radio Orchestra, Joel Suben, conductor and Robert DeMaine, cello soloist in Wallach's String Quartet (1986), String Quartet (1995), String Quartet (1999) and Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing - a concerto for cello and orchestra.

American Record Guide wrote of this CD, "A worthy collection....The music is emotional and dramatically cogent... Shadows, Sighs, and Songs of Longing is a 16-minute cello concerto of much warmth and lyricism." and called Joelle Wallach "a composer of considerable charm and serious intent." More about this CD at http://www.capstonerecords.org/CPS-8689.html.

Pianist Jeffrey Jacob has recorded Wallach's dramatic Voices of the Iron Harp as part of his Contemporary Eclectic Music for the Piano, Volume 7 series for New Ariel Recordings.

Learn more about this magnificent CD at http://www.joellewallach.com/recordings.

For more information about composer Joelle Wallach, including bio, performances, list of CDs and much more, visit http://www.joellewallach.com/. You can also contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.