Julia Wolfe’s Oratorio: A Win For Women Composers

Composer Julia Wolfe has won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for music for Anthracite Fields, an oratorio about coal miners and their families. CREDIT PETER SERLING / HTTP://WWW.NPR.ORG/

Northwest Public Radio’s classical music programming staff has lately been making sure to include women composers on our playlists. Here’s one you might not have heard of — but now you will. Julia Wolfe has received the Pulitzer Prize for her oratorio about coal miners and their families.

Listen to the award-winning piece and learn more about Wolfe here.