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House on Fire
project
works
Julia Wolfe
Fire in my mouth (2019) 48'
SSAA, girls choir, and orchestra 3.3.3.3/4.3.2.1.1/4perc.timp/hp.pf.egtr.ebass/strings
The New York Philharmonic; Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley; the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
event
Sunday, March 13, 2022 – 3:00pm
David Lang
‘burn notice’ performed by House on Fire
Westwood United Methodist Church
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
works
Michael Gordon
Van Gogh (1991) 63'
Text by Michael Gordon (based on the letters of Vincent Van Gogh)
Cast: S,T,B,cl(bcl),perc,egtr,pn,vn,va,vc,db
New York State Council on the Arts
works
Michael Gordon
Lightning at our feet (2008) 75'
four singer/performers playing violin, cello, piano, electric guitar, and electronics [all instruments and voices amplified]
BAM 2008 Next Wave Festival and Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston
interviews
Big risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade
September 15, 2022
Sometimes, all you need is a little push. In the fall of 1976, when Julia Wolfe arrived at the University of Michigan from Pennsylvania, she was just 17 and viewed herself as a “wild teenager” with her sights on social sciences and politics. Activism was a possible path. Music wasn’t on her radar.
But one day, a friend coaxed Wolfe into taking a peculiar music class, taught by a forward-thinking Quaker who didn’t care how much you knew about composing…
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Big risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade
Big risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade
Tom Huizenga (NPR)
September 15, 2022
Sometimes, all you need is a little push. In the fall of 1976, when Julia Wolfe arrived at the University of Michigan from Pennsylvania, she was just 17 and viewed herself as a “wild teenager” with her sights on social sciences and politics. Activism was a possible path…
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Flower Power premieres with LA Phil and 3 European orchestras
Julia Wolfe’s Flower Power had three European premieres before the pandemic (each featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars): London, February 28, 2020 with the BBC Concert Orchestra; Dublin, March 28, 2020 with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra; Copenhagen, March 5, 2020 with the Danish Radio Symphony.
The work received its world premiere January 18-19, 2020 at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles by the LA Philharmonic, with conductor John Adams and the Bang on a Can All-Stars…
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