Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields

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Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields

Bang on a Can All-Stars & Chorus Pro Musica

The Boston Premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio Anthracite Fields is a powerful tribute to the coal miners of Pennsylvania and the communities built on their labor. Scored for New York’s electric Bang on a Can All-Stars and chorus, the work weaves together miners’ names, oral histories, speeches, children’s rhymes, and coal advertisements into deeply moving musical portraits of a vanished way of life — and the human cost behind it.

Equal parts documentary, elegy, and celebration, Anthracite Fields is a strikingly original addition to the American musical canon, blending dynamic amplified chamber music with the raw power of the human voice.

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Show Credits

Presented by Chorus Pro Musica Produced by Bang on a Can

• Julia Wolfe – music and texts

• Jeff Sugg – scenography and projection design

BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS

• Lizzie Burns – bass

• Vicky Chow – piano and keyboard

• David Cossin – percussion

• Arlen Hlusko – cello and voice

• Mark Stewart – guitar and voice

• Ken Thomson – clarinet and bass clarinet

• Andrew Cotton – sound engineer

CHORUS PRO MUSICA

• Jamie Kirsch – conductor

The Creation of Anthracite Fields

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1 Hour 5 Mins

All Ages

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