Julia Wolfe News
American composer
- contemporary classical music
- United States of America
- composer, music teacher, university teacher, musician
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2024-02-26 20:26:46
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, CardiffWorks by contemporary composers including Julia Wolfe, Freya Waley-Cohen and David John Roche were part of an exhilarating concertTime Machine is the racy title of
2023-12-20 18:01:00
[…] back at 2023, to pick out the biggest musical lowlight: Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic, of all things. Apparently the program the night before was a lot better, including what sounds like a splendid Strauss Alpine Symphony, and I can't comment on the last night, which included Bruckner, but holy moly, the Mendelssohn and Brahms program was the worst concert I have ever heard from such an illustrious conductor and orchestra.The other big disappointment was Julia Wolfe's Her Story, which promised a lot and did not deliver. And while it's always good to hear Britten's War Requiem, last time around Semyon Bychkov conducted, and he was a lot better than Philippe Jordan.The highlights of the year? Well, there were many!Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony. I liked almost every one of his concerts.The orchestra sounded awfully good for him and others, even with many, many substitutes in critical positions. I […]
2023-10-23 07:00:00
2023-05-31 01:19:00
Her Story at San Francisco Symphony
"Foment" from Her StoryPhoto by Kristen Loken, courtesy of San Francisco SymphonyWell, this was a disappointment. Julia Wolfe's Her Story, the latest in her historical oratorio series, played at San Francisco Symphony last week, and...I thought it was not very good. Too few words, unvaried music, a staging that didn't do much for me. Anthracite Fields was so much better! Joshua Kosman was also disappointed. This was the third socially-conscious work I reviewed this year, and by far the weakest. The others were Gabriel Kahane's emergency shelter intake form and Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon. The latter is receiving a couple of performances in NYC, at Lincoln Center, in mid-July, if you're nearby and you're curious. I loved it and I'd suggest reading the book first. Keep an eye on Kahane's web site for future performances of emergency shelter intake form.Joshua Kosman, SF ChronicleLisa Hirsch, SFCVJoshua […]
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