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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and MacArthur Fellow Julia Wolfe will launch her residency as Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair for the 2021–2022 season on February 16 with the digital premiere of Oxygen.
Music tells a story: it can deliver a narrative to the listener with a fully formed plot, it can tell the story of an emotion, of a concept, or of a moment in history. Take any given setting of the Requiem: on the surface, requiems are settings of the traditional Catholic Mass for the dead. The story could be as simple as that: religious text that has been set to music. One peak beyond the surface, however, shows composers facing mortality and grief. For example, Mozart wrote his requiem at the end of his life (perhaps a bit TOO close to the end of his life-he died bef...