pierced (2007) 15'
solo cello, solo piano, solo percussion, strings
Real Quiet
solo cello, solo piano, solo percussion, strings
Real Quiet
solo marimba
a marimba consortium (Thomas Burritt and the University of Texas Percussion Program, Michael Burritt, David Cossin, Joseph Gramley, Eduardo Leandro, Todd Meehan, William Moersch, Doug Perkins, Steven Schick, Adam Sliwinski, Robert Van Sice)
7 vibraphones or other pitched metal
Brooklyn Botanical Garden for an installation at the BBG Cherry Esplanade: August 7-September 7, 2020 and March 13-May 8, 2021 (David Cossin, vibraphones)
perc. quartet for 4 drum sets
Talujon Percussion Quartet with funds from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
Cal Performances at Home premieres Steel Hammer, a new film featuring the acclaimed oratorio by Julia Wolfe. Film will be available on demand through August 4.
Described by The Boston Globe as “[an] epic explosion and reconstruction of the folk ballad,” Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer is a meditation on over 200 versions of the John Henry legend, with voices and the Bang on a Can All-Stars, along with mountain dulcimer, wooden bones, banjo, harmonicas, clogging, and body percussion…
continue readingJulia 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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