Julia Wolfe

Composer Julia Wolfe Awarded MacArthur 'Genius Grant'

Anastasia Tsioulcas

The New York composer is one of 23 individuals picked this year for the prestigious annual prize, which comes with $625,000.

Julia Wolfe's <em>Anthracite Fields</em> is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. The official recording of the piece was released this week.

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A Dark But Redeeming Tour Of Coal Country, With Composer Julia Wolfe

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Wolfe has just released the recording of Anthracite Fields, which won the 2015 Pulitzer for music. The piece is based on the knotty history of coal-mining families in her home state of Pennsylvania.

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Exploring PA's Historic Coal-Mining Culture...Through Song

The Mendelssohn Club Choir mounted its biggest-ever production last April, 2014 with the premiere of Anthracite Fields by the cutting-edge composer Julia…

Composer Julia Wolfe has won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for music for <em>Anthracite Fields, </em>an oratorio about coal miners and their families.<em></em>

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Julia Wolfe Wins Music Pulitzer For 'Anthracite Fields'

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The composer is the second from the New York music collective Bang on a Can to win the award with a choral work. Her oratorio explores the lives of coal miners and their families a century ago.

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Chamber Orch. of Phila.'s New Music Director--Friend or Faux at Rosenbach--NYC Composer Julia Wolfe

Susan Lewis

Jim Cotter speaks with Dirk Brosse, the newly appointed music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.Susan Lewis visits Friend or Faux, an…