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Fire in my mouth (2019) 48'

SSAA, girls choir, and orchestra 3.3.3.3/4.3.2.1.1/4perc.timp/hp.pf.egtr.ebass/strings

The New York Philharmonic; Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley; the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields released on CD

Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer-Prize winning oratorio for chorus and instruments, Anthracite Fields, will be released on Cantaloupe Music on September 25, 2015. Wolfe wrote the piece after doing extensive research about the coal-mining industry in an area very near where she grew up in Pennsylvania. Her text draws on oral histories, interviews with miners and their families, speeches, geographic descriptions, children’s rhymes, and coal advertisements…

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some exciting upcoming performances!…….. Steel Hammer, Anthracite Fields, True Love concerto

Steel Hammer

After a superb premiere at The Krannert Center in Urbana-Champaign, IL, the staging of Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer by director Anne Bogart and her SITI Company with the Bang on a Can All-Stars goes on tour beginning October 23, with a final performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December!

Steel Hammer
staged by Anne Bogart with SITI Company;
Bang on a Can All-Stars

UCLA: 10/23-24
Virginia Tech: 11/17
OZ Arts, Nashville: 11/21
Brooklyn Academy of Music: 12/2-12/6

Anthracite Fields

Then On November 14, Julia Wolfe returns to the anthracite coal region in Pennsylvania, which inspired her Pulitzer prize-winning oratorio, Anthracite Fields…

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Anthracite Fields performed in Coal Country

On November 14, Julia Wolfe returns to the anthracite coal region in Pennsylvania, which inspired her Pulitzer prize-winning oratorio, Anthracite Fields. In order to share the piece with the community that gave her such invaluable assistance in her research, Wolfe will participate in tours of the Lackawanna Coal Mine and give a talk at the Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton. That evening, the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, conducted by Julian Wachner, will perform Anthracite Fields at the brand-new Allan P…

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Sounds of Music and Strings of Autumn Festivals

From November 5-11, two European festivals feature music by Julia Wolfe:

• 11/5: Sounds of Music Festival (Groningen, NL) — the JACK Quartet performs Early that summer
• 11/7: Strings of Autumn Fesitval (Prague, CZ) — Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Anthracite Fields with Martinů Voices
• 11/8: Sounds of Music Festival — Trash Panda Collective presents Dark Full Ride
• 11/9: Sounds of Music Festival — Impatience, Lick, and Girlfriend performed by Ensemble Klang and the Prins Claus Conservatorium; Earring performed by Saskia Lankhoorn; Lick and Girlfriend performed by Ensemble Klang; Reeling performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars
• 11/10: Sounds of Music Festival — Anthracite Fields performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars with Cappella Amsterdam
• 11/11: Sounds of Music Festival — Impatience, On Seven-Star-Shoes and Believing performed by the Prins Claus Conservatorium