Won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Gives an impression of life in coal country around the turn of the century; the same sort of milieu that spawned songs like “16 Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford. It’s artsy fartsy music through and through, but I think it’s very effective in its aims. The composer intended it as an exploration and tribute to American labor history.
Anthracite Fields by Julia Wolfe
Won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Gives an impression of life in coal country around the turn of the century; the same sort of milieu that spawned songs like “16 Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford. It’s artsy fartsy music through and through, but I think it’s very effective in its aims. The composer intended it as an exploration and tribute to American labor history.