Julia Wolfe | The New York Review of Books

Julia Wolfe

Julia Wolfe is an American composer. She is a co-founder and co-artistic director of New York’s music collective Bang on a Can, and the artistic director of NYU Steinhardt Music Composition. Her most recent work, premiered in 2019, is Fire in My Mouth, the third in a series of compositions about the American worker: 2009’s Steel Hammer, which examines the folk hero John Henry, and the 2014 Pulitzer prize-winning work Anthracite Fields. In 2015 she was a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Music, and in 2016 was a MacArthur Fellow. (October 2019)

Saving ‘New Sounds’

Just days ago, when it seemed that John Schaefer’s show might be cancelled by WNYC, there was a public outcry. Listeners wrote in, artists spoke up, and the incredible thing is that the station listened.

October 29, 2019