Bang on a Can All-Stars, Tecwyn Evans at Kings Place

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New York’s electric Bang on a Can All-Stars team up with BBC Singers and conductor Tecwyn Evans for the UK premiere of Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe’s haunting, poignant and relentlessly physical Anthracite Fields, an examination of the coal-mining industry so musically and socially provocative that it netted the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music.\nIn Anthracite Fields, Wolfe draws on oral histories, interviews, speeches, geographic descriptions, local rhymes, and coal advertisements to create a work that gives an intimate look at a particular slice of American life. With visually stunning projections by scenographer Jeff Sugg, Anthracite Fields honors the people who persevered and endured in the Pennsylvania Anthracite coal region during a time when the industry fueled the nation.