The Composer Who Just Can't Write For Normal Ensembles
That would be Bang on a Can's Julia Wolfe, whose latest album has works for four drum sets, six pianists, eight double basses, and nine bagpipers. She's written an accordion concerto and a piece for musicians in pedicabs. "The last time I did something practical … was [in graduate school] at Yale - I wrote a woodwind quintet." Philadelphia Inquirer 11/15/09

Posted November 19, 2009 09:56 PM