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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Dua Lipa's "Good in Bed" is one of the best songs of March. Hugo Comte/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
On their new album, Bang on a Can All-Stars wear stethoscopes to perform music by Arcade Fire member Richard Reed Parry. Lisa Bauso/Cantaloupe Music hide caption
Bang On A Can Plays Straight From The Heart (Literally)
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
A Dark But Redeeming Tour Of Coal Country, With Composer Julia Wolfe
On the Bang on a Can All-Stars' new album, Field Recordings, composers riff on a range of recorded sounds. Peter Serling/Bang on a Can hide caption
Songs We Love: Bang On A Can, 'An Open Cage'
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
Anthracite Fields - 'Flowers' (performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street)
Two of the Bang on a Can All-Stars immortalized on the kids' cartoon Arthur. Courtesy of 'Arthur' hide caption
Members of the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing in Shanghai in 2009. Christine Southworth/courtesy of the artists hide caption
The new CD of music by composer Steve Reich pairs the Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet with the rock-inflected 2x5. Nevin Shalit hide caption
