Julia Wolfe: Anthracite Fields
This Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio commemorates the history of coal mining in northeastern Pennsylvania around the turn of the 20th century and utilizes oral histories, interviews with miners and their families, speeches, and children’s stories in a moving musical tableaux. The Choir of Trinity Wall Street performed the piece in Zankel Hall in 2018 and collaborated on the 2015 GRAMMY-nominated recording on the Canteloupe Music label.
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Bang on a Can All-Stars
This Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio commemorates the history of coal mining in northeastern Pennsylvania around the turn of the 20th century and utilizes oral histories, interviews with miners and their families, speeches, and children’s stories in a moving musical tableaux. The Choir of Trinity Wall Street performed the piece in Zankel Hall in 2018 and collaborated on the 2015 GRAMMY-nominated recording on the Canteloupe Music label.
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Bang on a Can All-Stars