Allan Kozinn's article lists Julia Wolfe as one of many composers with recent percussion performances. (Allan Kozinn/New York Times)
Wolfe's Take My Hand is included in Guy Livingston's film One Minute More: 60 Seconds More. (guylivingston.com)
"LAD for nine bagpipes is a glorious work featuring drones (of course), expressive melodic fragments, life-altering glissandi, and the most revelatory emergence of tunes this side of Denis Smalley’s Pentes." (Jay Batzner/Sequenza21)
"Interestingly, where you would think it would have come with the nine bagpipes, it's with the six pianos of my lips from speaking (here remarkably performed by Lisa Moore) that Wolfe really pushes things over the edge." (Molly Sheridan/NewMusicBox)
'"“Dark Full Ride” is perhaps the album’s most intriguing selection, combining rhythms in a conglomeration that, while tightly composed and performed, seems ever on the verge of erupting into something more akin to the drum room at Guitar Center.' (Adam Strohm/DustedMagazine)
About a performance of Steel Hammer: "The piece called for piano, clarinet, cello, bass, guitar/banjo/mountain dulcimer, and quite an assortment of percussion (including performers’ feet and hands, and “the bones”) as well as the wonderful Trio Mediaeval, three female vocalists from Scandinavia." (The Melody at Night)
In February, Mills College in Oakland has a concert of her music, where she is composer-in-residence. (musicnow.mills.edu)
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