Composers: Julia Wolfe
Compositions: Fire in my Mouth
Performers: The Crossing, Young People’s Chorus of New York City, New York Philharmonic/Jaap van Zweden
Catalogue Number: Decca Gold 4818606

Tragic tales of people smuggling from our own age resonate strongly with this tale of immigrant workers in New York from last century. On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory claimed the lives of 146 garment workers. Julia Wolfe commemorates these mostly young, female immigrants of either Jewish or Italian heritage in a work of searing intensity that was performed as part of Jaap van Zweden’s inaugural season with the...