Morton Gould composed his Viola Concerto in 1943. The viola concerto had to wait for nearly a decade for its premiere, in a 1952 studio recording with Milton Katims and the NBC Symphony.Milton Katims obituary in The New York Times, 02/03/06 It didn't receive its public premiere until 1983, when it was performed by Robert Glazer and the Louisville Orchestra led by Lawrence Leighton Smith.Composition profile by Joseph Stevenson in allmusic.com
The concerto lasts approximately 30 minutes and consists of three movements chained without a break. It is a lyrical composition with a distinct American character ending in a hoedown dance:
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