Thursday, October 27, 2022 – 8:00pm
Michael Gordon
8 performed by Cello Club (Lithuanian premiere)
Gaida Festival
St. Catherine's Church
Vilnius, Lithuania
Vilnius, Lithuania
Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon
str (min 6.3.3.3.1) [all instruments amplified]; mvmt 2 + electronics, mvmt 3 + audio playback
Siemens Kulturprogram for Ensemble Resonanz
Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer-Prize winning oratorio for chorus and instruments, Anthracite Fields, will be released on Cantaloupe Music on September 25, 2015. Wolfe wrote the piece after doing extensive research about the coal-mining industry in an area very near where she grew up in Pennsylvania. Her text draws on oral histories, interviews with miners and their families, speeches, geographic descriptions, children’s rhymes, and coal advertisements…
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