American composer Julia Wolfe (1958) has a thing for the social history of her homeland. Steel Hammer reflects on the unequal struggle of man versus machine, as described in the folk ballad John Henry. Anthracite Fields zooms in on the hard life of miners in Pennsylvania. She won a Pulitzer Prize with it in 2015. The full-length oratorio will have its Dutch premiere at the Haarlem Choral Biennale on two July. Daniel Reuss conducts Bang on a Can All Stars, Cappel...
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