Julia Wolfe

with Libby Van Cleve

August 14, 1997

New York, NY

                                                            TABLE OF CONTENTS

DAT 1

Side a                                                                                                                         pp. 1-22

Earliest musical memories and preferences--high school--piano study--composing--University of Michigan--music studied--teachers as role models--theater company--piece/or trapeze group--Seamarks--meeting with Michael Gordon--Aspen--Densure[sp?]--prize won at Aspen--Wild Swan Theater.

Side b                                                                                                                        pp. 22-44

Wild Swan Theater--Drumming Woman--Rainstorm--learning sign language--meeting Michael Gordon and David Lang--Martin Bresnick--interview at Yale--attending Yale--more on Bresnick--On Seven Star Shoes; arrangement for woodwind quintet--Song at Daybreak--She--Judaism--influence of Judaism on music--Tell Me Everything--Bang on a Can.

DAT 2

Side c                                                                                                                         pp. 44-65

Bang on a Can--John Cage--Steve Reich--Milton Babbitt--”Guitars and Poets”--downtown-uptown--influence of world musics--Philip Glass--move of Bang on a Can to Lincoln Center--looking for a new location--success of new art--Bang on a Can All-Stars--Believing--Airport Music.

Side d                                                                                                                        pp. 66-87

Female manner of working and aesthetic--Arsenal of Democracy--Four Marys--The Vermeer Room--Orpheus--more on Four Marys--mountain dulcimer--more on Vermeer Room--Believing--Daybreak--Meredith Monk--piece to be written with Michael Gordon--Window of Vulnerability--Arsenal of Democracy--Led Zeppelin--Beethoven.

Side e                                                                                                                         pp. 87-101

Beethoven--influence of rock music--Arsenal of Democracy--Louis Andriessen--minimalism--Andriessen’s influence on Wolfe’s music--Early That Summer--Tanglewood--acceptance by the “establishment” as a goal--Early That Summer--program notes vs. no program notes--photograph on Wolfe’s CD.