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Our biggest orchestras are finally playing more music by women. What took so long?

Composer Julia Wolfe at the Nashville Symphony Orchestra's world premiere of her piece Her Story on Sept. 15, 2022. Kurt Heinecke/Nashville Symphony hide caption

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Our biggest orchestras are finally playing more music by women. What took so long?

As the new concert season gets underway, composers and orchestra administrators say they are feeling a shift in whose music gets heard.

Our biggest orchestras are finally playing more music by women. What took so long?

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Big risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade

Composer Julia Wolfe's latest work, Her Story, receives its world premiere in Nashville on Sept. 15, 2022. Peter Serling/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Big risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade

The Pulitzer-winning, MacArthur "genius" co-founder of Bang on a Can looks for the grit in music, whether she's writing a string quartet or one of her history-based oratorios.

Tragic Fire Sparks Julia Wolfe's Latest Look At American Labor History

Members of the 146-voice chorus, dressed as garment workers, in composer Julia Wolfe's Fire In My Mouth, which documents the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York. Chris Lee/Decca Gold hide caption

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Tragic Fire Sparks Julia Wolfe's Latest Look At American Labor History

On her new album, Fire in My Mouth, the Pulitzer-winning composer documents the tragedy behind New York City's 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Tragic Fire Sparks Julia Wolfe's Latest Look At American Labor History

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A Dark But Redeeming Tour Of Coal Country, With Composer Julia Wolfe

Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. The official recording of the piece was released this week. Peter Serling/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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A Dark But Redeeming Tour Of Coal Country, With Composer Julia Wolfe

Wolfe has just released the recording of Anthracite Fields, which won the 2015 Pulitzer for music. The piece is based on the knotty history of coal-mining families in her home state of Pennsylvania.

A Dark But Redeeming Tour Of Coal Country, With Composer Julia Wolfe

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Julia Wolfe Wins Music Pulitzer For 'Anthracite Fields'

Composer Julia Wolfe has won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for music for Anthracite Fields, an oratorio about coal miners and their families. Peter Serling hide caption

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Julia Wolfe Wins Music Pulitzer For 'Anthracite Fields'

The composer is the second from the New York music collective Bang on a Can to win the award with a choral work. Her oratorio explores the lives of coal miners and their families a century ago.

Anthracite Fields - 'Flowers' (performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street)

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