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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
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Julia Wolfe has carved out her brilliant career with the same raucous drive and profound spirit that is reflected in the music she writes. Wolfe’s co-founding of the New York new music collective Bang on a Can in 1987 set her on a path to help alter the musical landscape not only in New York City, where she lives and works, but around the world…
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The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage
April 24, 2014
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NPR’s Deceptive Cadence
September 26, 2015
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Julia Wolfe Miller Theater Portrait Concert February 3 works for string orchestra
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Miller Theater at Columbia University presents a portrait concert of the music of Julia Wolfe on February 3.
New York’s Signal Ensemble, conducted by Brad Lubman, gives the NY premieres of Wolfe’s two string orchestra works, Fuel and Cruel Sister.
New CD: Cruel Sister“Though Ms. Wolfe never directly quotes this mournful song, she painstakingly depicts the story…
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Pretty (2023) 25′
2.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp.3perc/hp/strings
Commissioners:Berlin Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony First Performance:
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Berlin PhilharmonicPhilharmonie Berlin
Berlin, Germany
The word “pretty” has had a complicated relationship to women. It implies an attractiveness without any rough edges, without strength or power. And it has served as a measure of worth in strange, limited, and destructive ways…
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Julia Wolfe named 2016 MacArthur Fellow
Julia Wolfe has been named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to “talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.”
Go to macfound.org for more information.
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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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2022 Artistic Director of Finland’s Avanti! Summer Sounds Festival
I am excited to join the Avanti musicians for the 2022 festival entitled “Body Language.” Each concert has its own unique design – setting up sympathetic resonances and contrasts to create unfolding sonic journeys. New American music abounds. Historic renegades sit side by side with music hot-off-the press. Many of my own works will be performed in Finland for the very first time, including Steel Hammer featuring the magical voices of Trio Mediaeval, and riSE and fLY with the rapid-fire body percussion of Colin Currie, Cruel Sister, Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (version for orchestra), among others…
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