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Big risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade
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…
continue readingSunday, May 4, 2014
Julia Wolfe
Light is Calling performed by Fulcrum Point New Music
Chicago, IL
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Julia Wolfe
Fuel performed by Fulcrum Point New Music
Chicago, IL
Sunday, December 18, 2016
David Lang
‘are your experienced’ performed by Fulcrum Point New Music
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
David Lang
Hunk of Burnin’ Love – Fulcrum Point New Music Project
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…
continue reading‘death speaks’ CD released
“Art songs have been moving out of classical music in the last many years,” writes composer David Lang. “Indie rock seems to be the place where Schubert’s sensibilities now lie, a better match for direct story telling and intimate emotionality.”
Lang’s death speaks, along with his work depart, is released on Cantaloupe music on April 30.
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In death speaks — co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Stanford Lively Arts, and written for Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, Owen Pallett and Shara Worden — Lang explores art song with the help of a group of classically trained artists who made their careers in the indie rock world…
continue readingWolfe named 2021-2022 Carnegie Hall’s Debs Composer’s Chair
Julia Wolfe named Carnegie Hall’s
2021-2022 Debs Composer’s Chair
Julia Wolfe has been announced as the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall for the 2021–2022 season. Wolfe creates music that has been described as emotionally charged, viscerally powerful, and socially conscious. As a composer, she responds to the world around her, bringing unsung histories to life in riveting musical tableaux, with a focus on the multifaceted history of the American worker…
continue readingTimber Tours…. Timbernationally
Michael Gordon’s percussion sextet Timber, “six players, six two-by-fours, one hour of aural hypnosis” (TimeOut NY) is toured from Canada to Ireland to Germany and beyond by co-commissioners Slagwerk Den Haag and Mantra Percussion.
- 8 March Muziekgebouw — Amsterdam (SDH)
- 9 March Vancouver New Music — Canada (MP)
- 15 March Maerzmuzik — Berlin (SDH)
- 21 March den Toonzal — Den Bosch, Holland (SDH)
- 7 April Music Biennale Zagreb — Croatia (SDH)
- 30 April TimberRemixed — Brooklyn, NY (MP)
- 4 May Drogheda Arts Festival 2013 — Louth, Ireland (MP)
- 26 May Landgoedconcerten Oranjewoud — Langezwaag, Holland (SDH)
Recognized by The New Yorker Magazine as one of the ten most memorable performances of 2012, Timber is a mesmerizing and unique evening-length work…
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