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Julia Wolfe’s music is distinguished by an intense physicality and a relentless power that pushes performers to extremes and demands attention from the audience. She draws inspiration from folk, classical, and rock genres, bringing a modern sensibility to each while simultaneously tearing down the walls between them.

Wolfe’s recent premieres include Pretty, premiered in June 2023 by conductor Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic. Co-commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Pretty is a raucous celebration — embracing the grit of fiddling, the relentlessness of work rhythms, and inspired by the distortion and reverberation of rock and roll.

unEarth, commissioned and premiered in June 2023 by the New York Philharmonic, is a large-scale work for orchestra, men’s chorus, and children’s chorus that addresses the climate crisis. Performed in three movements, the 40 minute piece is realized with spatial staging and scenic design projected on a large circular screen.

Her Story, a 45-minu

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Julia Wolfe

American composer (born 1958)

This article is about the American composer. For the British mathematician, see Julia Wolf. For the British composer, see Julia Woolf.

Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958)[1] is an American composer and professor of music at New York University. According to The Wall Street Journal, Wolfe's music has "long inhabited a terrain of its own, a place where classical forms are recharged by the repetitive patterns of minimalism and the driving energy of rock".[2] Her work Anthracite Fields, an oratorio for chorus and instruments, was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music.[3][4][5][6][7] She has also received the Herb Alpert Award (2015) and was named a MacArthur Fellow (2016).

Life

Born in Philadelphia, Wolfe has a twin brother and an older brother. As a teenager, she learned piano but she only began to study music seriously after taking a musicianship class at the University of Michigan, where she received a BA in music and theater as a member of Phi

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BENT ON SUCCESS:
JULIA WESTALL WOLFE (1860-1945)

Julia’s Youngest Son: Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

Shortly after Julia purchased the Old Kentucky Home, she moved into the boarding house full time while W.O. and most of her children remained in the family home a few blocks away. However, Julia took her youngest son, six-year-old Thomas, with her. Tom would spend much of his childhood hauling coal to the boarder’s rooms, weeding his mother’s garden, and doing other chores to support his mother’s business.

As an adult, Tom pursued a career in play writing and literature. His debut novel Look Homeward, Angel, published in October 1929, was semi-autobiographical and depicted the Old Kentucky home as well as Julia. Look Homeward, Angel was an international success, launching Tom on a prolific, if tragically short, career. After his death from tubercular meningitis in 1938, Julia would go on to promote his plays and novels, and often indulged sight-seers in tours of the Old Kentucky Home. 

Left: Photo of Thomas Wolfe courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photogra

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