Julia Wolfe, the Pulitzer-winning, MacArthur genius co-founder of 'Bang on a Can' looks for the grit in music, whether she's writing a string quartet or one of her history-based oratorios.
something! And in a way, because I was coming from the outside, I probably didn't feel the oppression and inhibition of being a woman composing.
So once you felt like writing music was a thing, how did you eventually find your voice as a composer? Or are you still looking for it? Then I got a spot at the Yale School of Music — miraculously, because I hadn't written that much yet — and studied with Martin Bresnick for all four semesters. He handed me a score of[by Louis Andriessen], and I just looked at it and thought,"Whoa, what the heck is this?" It was so bold and direct. It's not trying to be subtle and mysterious, it's just like,, right in your face! And I loved that.
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