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Big risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade
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. 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…
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Big risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade
Big risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade
Tom 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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Steel Hammer (2009) 70'
SSA, cl, perc, gtr, pf, vc, db
Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Carnegie Hall
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unEarth (2023) 45'
soprano solo, men's chorus, children's chorus, and orchestra 3(picc).3(eh).2+bcl.2+cbn/4.3(C).2+btn.1/timp.4perc/gtr(steel).ebgtr.pno+eorg.hp/strings
New York Philharmonic
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The New York Times
February 1, 2011
By Allan Kozinn
Like most composers, Julia Wolfe is often in two places at once psychically: working on new pieces (with working defined as anything from cogitating and experimenting to actually putting the notes on paper) but also seeing that the backlist is getting attention. In recent weeks she has been putting the finishing touches on “Iron Maiden,” a new solo work for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie, and working on “Combat de Boxe,” for the Asko Ensemble of the Netherlands…
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Lost Objects (2001) 62'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe; Text by Deborah Artman
Sop, 2 countertenors, small chor, DJ, baroque orch, egtr, eb, perc, synth [all instruments and voices amplified]
Dresden Festival
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Thursday, March 3, 2022 – 7:30pm
Steel Hammer performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars
Carnegie Hall
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Lang’s ‘wed’ and Wolfe’s ‘Early That Summer’, performed by ETHEL string quartet at Williams Center for the Arts @ Lafayette College
Lafayette College
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Dark Full Ride (2002) 18'
perc. quartet for 4 drum sets
Talujon Percussion Quartet with funds from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust