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Washington Post: At the Kennedy Center, the NSO offers a bracing history lesson
February 28, 2025
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At the Kennedy Center, the NSO offers a bracing history lesson
The Lorelei Ensemble joined the National Symphony Orchestra for the D.C. premiere of Julia Wolfe’s engrossing oratorio “Her Story.”
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The Lorelei Ensemble joined the NSO for Thursday night’s performance of Julia Wolfe’s “Her Story,” conducted by Marin Alsop. (Scott Suchman)
February 28, 2025
Review by Michael Andor Brodeur
On Thursday night at the Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra gave the DC…
Read MorePhiladelphia Orchestra + National Symphony give premieres
February 25, 2025
This week, February 27 through March 1, two recent Wolfe works for orchestra receive commissioner premieres: Her Story (for orchestra and women’s vocal ensemble) is performed by conductor Marin Alsop, the National Symphony Orchestra and Lorelei Ensemble. Pretty, is performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Her Story
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Her Story (1-min video excerpt) performed by
Boston Symphony with Lorelei
Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and National Symphony Orchestra, Julia Wolfe’s Her Story is written for orchestra and women’s vocal ensemble …
Read MoreNashville Symphony performs ‘Flower Power’
January 22, 2025
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January 24-26, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony perform Julia Wolfe’s Flower Power, featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
A concerto for the All-Stars and orchestra, with video art by Jeff Sugg, Flower Power was co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Danish Radio Orchestra.
From Julia Wolfe:
Flower Power is about optimism, idealism, psychedelia, breaking with convention, and a little bit of love and peace…
Read MorePortrait Concert at National Sawdust: Bang on a Can All-Stars
December 5, 2024
On December 12 at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, the electrifying Bang on a Can All-Stars play an intimate concert of music by Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe – a set of new, recent, and ‘classic’ works featuring Wolfe’s signature combination of driving rock energy and minimalist serenity. Join us for an end-of-year hang as Bang on a Can performs Wolfe’s Big Beautiful Dark and Scary, Reeling, Lick and a “sneak peek” of her work Flower Power, for the Bang on a Can All-Stars and orchestra…
Read MoreFountain of Youth: NY Philharmonic
November 4, 2024
November 7, 8, 9 and 12 the New York Philharmonic and conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali perform Julia Wolfe’s Fountain of Youth.
Fountain of Youth is noisy! Washboards! Wild trumpet screams! The search for the fountain of youth went on for thousands of years. Mythology has it that when someone baths in or drinks from the fountain they are transformed, rejuvenated. My Fountain of Youth is music — a sassy, rhythmic, high energy swim…
Read MoreFire in my mouth in Edinburgh
August 23, 2024
Julia Wolfe’s critically-acclaimed Fire in my mouth receives its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Festival August 21, by Marin Alsop and the Philharmonia Orchestra — with Anne Kauffman (director), Jeff Sugg (scenic, lighting, video and production designer) and Márion Talán (costume designer).
Premiered in January 2019 by the New York Philharmonic, Fire in my mouth is based on the garment industry in New York at the turn of the century, with a focus on the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and its aftermath…
Read MoreCincinnati Symphony’s May Festival May 17-25
April 8, 2024
Julia Wolfe named Inaugural Festival Director of
Cincinnati Symphony’s
2024 May Festival
May 17-25
Concerts include the world premiere of Wolfe’s new choral fanfare All that breathes, her recent works with orchestra, Her Story and Pretty, as well as her Pulitzer Prize-winning work for chorus and ensemble, Anthracite Fields; plus Michael Gordon’s Natural History and David Lang’s the national anthems; with special guests the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Lorelei Ensemble, and Steiger Butte Singers joining the Cincinnati Symphony and May Festival Chorus…
Read MoreFire in my mouth European Premiere
January 23, 2024
Julia Wolfe’s critically-acclaimed Fire in my mouth receives its European premiere January 26-27 by the Gothenburg Symphony, Santtu-Matias Rouvali — conductor, and the Gothenburg Symphony Womens’ and Girls’ choir, with Anne Kauffman (director), Jeff Sugg (scenic, lighting, video and production designer) and Márion Talán (costume designer).
Listen to New York Philharmonic recording
Premiered in January 2019 by the New York Philharmonic, Fire in my mouth is based on the garment industry in New York at the turn of the century, with a focus on the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and its aftermath…
Read MoreHouston Symphony gives US premiere of ‘Pretty’
September 29, 2023
Pretty
Houston Symphony
US premiere
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
November 17, 18, 19
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. Louis Symphony Orchestra…
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