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Flower Power premieres with LA Phil and 3 European orchestras

Julia Wolfe’s Flower Power had three European premieres before the pandemic (each featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars): London, February 28, 2020 with the BBC Concert Orchestra; Dublin, March 28, 2020 with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra; Copenhagen, March 5, 2020 with the Danish Radio Symphony.

The work received its world premiere January 18-19, 2020 at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles by the LA Philharmonic, with conductor John Adams and the Bang on a Can All-Stars…

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Portrait Concert at National Sawdust: Bang on a Can All-Stars

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…

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Nashville Symphony performs ‘Flower Power’

[IMAGE] Julia Wolfe's Flower Power

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…

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Concertgebouw Orchestra streams ‘Fountain of Youth’

Until February 6, the fiery Concertgebouw Orchestra, with the terrific conductor Klaus Mäkelä, streams Wolfe’s recent piece: Fountain of Youth. Click here to watch their performance.

The piece is noisy, it’s youthful. Washboards! Wild trumpet screams!

People have searched for the fountain of youth for thousands of years. The thought was that if you bathed in or drank from the fountain of youth you would be transformed, rejuvenated…

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Berlin Philharmonic premieres ‘Pretty’

Pretty Berlin Philharmonic
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Kirill Petrenko, conductor
June 8, 9, 10

Berlin Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall

June 8-10, conductor Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic gave the world premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Pretty. Co-commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Pretty was the third premiere of Wolfe’s in as many weeks — beginning May 25 in San Francisco with the west coast premiere of Her Story, and then June 1-3 with the New York Philharmonic’s world premiere of unEarth

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