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Fallingwater is a 2013 concerto for solo violin and string orchestra by the American composer Michael Daugherty, inspired by four of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings: Taliesin, Fallingwater, Unity Temple and the Guggenheim Museum. The work was commissioned by the director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, who gave the premiere on November 20, 2013.

Movements

1. Nightrain
2. On the Level
3. Prairie Psalm
4. Ahead of the Curve

Discography

• From A to Z: 21st Century Concertos. Assad / Bolcom / Daugherty / Zwilich. NSS Music, November 2013.

References

1. “Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the New Century Chamber Orchestra Present World Premiere by Featured Composer Michael Daugherty November 20-24" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved October 30, 2014.
2. New Century Chamber Orchestra premieres Michael Daugherty’s ‘Fallingwater’" Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved October 30, 2014.

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List of compositions
Opera	Jackie O (1997)
Concerto	Dead Elvis (1993) UFO (1999) Fire and Blood (2003) Raise the Roof (2003) Deus ex Machina (2007) Fallingwater (2013)
Other compositions	Metropolis Symphony (1988/89/91/93) Niagara Falls (1997) Route 66 (1998) Sunset Strip (1999) Bells for Stokowski (2001) Time Machine (2003) Ghost Ranch (2005) American Gothic (2013)
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