Boston Globe: Sounding ‘Her Story’ and the music of loss

Giancarlo Guerrero led the BSO in a potent new work by Julia Wolfe dramatizing the struggle for women’s rights across the centuries

Music Review by Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe on March 19, 2023

On Wolfe: “Visiting conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, who has been engaged with this work since its 2022 premiere, deftly held the pieces together. By implicitly placing today’s activism in relationship to these sharply etched moments drawn from the history of the struggle, “Her Story” ultimately sounds both a viscerally moving tribute and a forceful call to continue the fight”

On Górecki: “Guerrero layered the various elements with care and restraint.”

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