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Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Nashville Symphony, National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony
Her Story
Boston Symphony Orchestra
with Lorelei
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
March 16-18
followed by performances with:
San Francisco Symphony and National Symphony
[Her Story] has a ferocity that is literally written into the score, but also an absence of resolution as it looks back to suffrage with one wary eye toward the future steps this country still needs to take for something resembling true equality…
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Her Story
Marin Alsop and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Lorelei
January 6-7, 2023
followed by performances with:
Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony,
and National Symphony
November 17, 18, 19, conductor Juraj Valčuha and the Houston Symphony give the US premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Pretty, co-commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the St…
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Sometimes, all you need is a little push. In the fall of 1976, when Julia Wolfe arrived at the University of Michigan from Pennsylvania, she was just 17 and viewed herself as a “wild teenager” with her sights on social sciences and politics. Activism was a possible path. Music wasn’t on her radar.
But one day, a friend coaxed Wolfe into taking a peculiar music class, taught by a forward-thinking Quaker who didn’t care how much you knew about composing…
continue readingTom Huizenga (NPR)
September 15, 2022
Sometimes, all you need is a little push. In the fall of 1976, when Julia Wolfe arrived at the University of Michigan from Pennsylvania, she was just 17 and viewed herself as a “wild teenager” with her sights on social sciences and politics. Activism was a possible path…
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