Bang on a Can All-Stars: Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields
MASS MoCA 87 Marshall St., North Adams, Massachusetts 01247
“A major, profound work.” –Los Angeles Times
The electric Bang on a Can All-Stars team with the transcendent voices of Choir of Trinity Wall Street for Julia Wolfe’s haunting, poignant, and relentlessly physical Anthracite Fields, an examination of the coal-mining industry so musically and socially
provocative that it netted the 2015 Pulitzer. With visually stunning projections, Anthracite Fields draws on oral histories, interviews, speeches, geography, local rhymes, and coal advertisements to create a work honoring the region’s people who persevered, endured, and fueled a nation.
