Michael Gordon July live.bangonacan.org JULY 1 – 31 In spring of 2020, in isolation, I wrote a short piano piece every day. At the end of the day I would send the piece to the pianist Vicky Chow. On each day in July 2020, Vicky released the 31 piano works, one a day, on Instagram. Now […]
Read MoreJulia 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 […]
Read MoreCal 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 […]
Read MoreLA Opera releases the latest in their online series “On Now”: David Lang’s let me come in features soprano Angel Blue, with conductor Bryan Wagorn, violist David Creswell, cellist Anja Wood, and percussionist Miles Salerni. Co-commissioned by LA Opera and the Fisher Center at Bard College, this online premiere of let me come in is accompanied by […]
Read MoreRecorded by Frode Andersen (accordion) featuring Shara Nova (guest vocals on “I cross the field”) The film premieres April 27 at the Moscow International Film Festival. Soundtrack now streaming on all digital services Conceived as a suite for a single accordion, David Lang’s soundtrack for the forthcoming Bill Morrison film (slated for theatrical release later […]
Read MoreMichael Gordon’s 8 (for eight cellos) available now in digital audio or CD (score and parts available through Ricordi NY/Universal Music Group) is part of a series of works for multiples of a single instrument that began with Timber for six pieces of wood, and includes Rushes for seven bassoons and Amplified for four electric guitars. Each of these works is meant […]
Read MoreMichael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe have signed an exclusive global publishing agreement with G. Ricordi and Co., New York — the American wing of the international publishing giant Universal Music Publishing Group. Lang comments, “Ricordi has a great catalogue of composers — it is an honor to be on the same roster with […]
Read MoreJulia 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 […]
Read MoreWhen a Critic Hosts the Premiere [link to article] Zachary Woolfe February 14, 2020 “Please silence your cellphones.” There are few phrases I hear more often in my life as a music critic. But it was strange — like a child playing dress-up — to speak the sentence myself, and in the incongruous setting of […]
Read MoreFire in my mouth, conducted by Music Director Jaap van Zweden, is nominated for two Grammy awards: Best Contemporary Classical Composition (Julia Wolfe) Best Engineered Album, Classical (Bob Hanlon and Lawrence Rock, engineers; Ian Good and Lawrence Rock, mastering engineers). Lawrence Rock is Audio Director of the New York Philharmonic; Ian Good is Assistant, Digital […]
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