Julia Wolfe: Fire in My Mouth
Jaap van Zweden , New York Philharmonic
Composed by: Julia Wolfe
2019
UMC - Decca Gold
A vivid choral rendering of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 immigrant women died in a New York sweatshop accident. Eschewing linear narrative, composer Julia Wolfe depicts this pivot point in American labor history primarily through the accumulation of fragmentary and repeated vocal lines. Where her Minimalist forbears used this kind of repetition for conceptual explorations in perception, consciousness, and spirituality, Wolfe instead uses it to build kinetic energy and dramatic tension. The techniques bring the listener to the scene of the crime, nowhere more searingly than in the third movement, “Protest.”
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