José White has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 14 June 2020. Songs played include Concerto For Violin And Orchestra.

José Silvestre White Lafitte (17 January 1836, in Matanzas, Cuba – 12–15 March 1918, Paris, France), also known as Joseph White, was a Cuban-French violinist and composer.

His father Don Carlos White was Spanish and his mother was Afro-Cuban.

After receiving early musical training from his father, who was an amateur violinist, José White gave his first concert in Matanzas on 21 March 1854. He was accompanied by the visiting American pianist-composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, "who encouraged him to…