Julia Wolfe

Cruel Sister: Music for String Orchestra by Bang-on-a-Can's Julia Wolfe

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
April 1, 2011

For all my exposure to the marvelous Downtown New York institution Bang-on- a Can, I have not had the pleasure of hearing much of the music of co-founder-composer Julia Wolfe. There is no good reason for this. It simply is an omission on my part. The situation has been rectified by listening to her new release of compositions for the string orchestra Ensemble Resonanz, Cruel Sister (Cantaloupe 21069). The album contains two longish works: “Cruel Sister" (2004), based on the ...
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