Julia Wolfe

Composer Julia Wolfe Awarded MacArthur 'Genius Grant'

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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

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