Last year, Julia Wolfe (1958) won the Pulitzer Prize with her oratorio Anthracite Fields. In this poignant piece about the plight of miners, she draws on American folk music. She composed it for the co-founded Bang on a Can All-Stars, a New York ensemble that became known for its rousing mix of rock, mimal music and contemporary classical music.
Also in her riveting Steel Hammer (2009), Wolfe zooms in on a quintessentially American phenomenon: the le...
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