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The New York Philharmonic has awarded David Lang the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music — one of the world’s largest new-music prizes. In addition to a monetary award, the Kravis Prize includes a commission for a new work that the NY Philharmonic will premiere in the 2025–26 season.

Lang’s receipt of the Kravis Prize builds on a decades-long history of premieres and performances by the NY Philharmonic — most recently, in 2019 the NY Phil co-commissioned and premiered Lang’s fully-staged opera, prisoner of the state, with then-Music Director Jaap van Zweden…

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This week, February 27 through March 1, two recent Wolfe works for orchestra receive commissioner premieres: Her Story (for orchestra and women’s vocal ensemble) is performed by conductor Marin Alsop, the National Symphony Orchestra and Lorelei Ensemble. Pretty, is performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Her Story

Her Story (1-min video excerpt) performed by
Boston Symphony with Lorelei

Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and National Symphony Orchestra, Julia Wolfe’s Her Story is written for orchestra and women’s vocal ensemble …

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