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Home , Anthracite Fields, Don Byron, Edie Brickell, Julia Wolfe, Mark Stewart (guitarist), Robert Black (bassist)

Streaming Premiere – Thursday, May 6, 2021, 7pm

Steel Hammer Music and Text by

featuring All-Stars , bass Vicky Chow, piano and melodica David Cossin, percussion Arlen Hlusko, cello Mark Stewart, electric guitar, banjo, mountain dulcimer, harmonica Ken Thomson, and harmonica with Rebecca L. Hargrove, voice Sonya Headlam, voice Molly Netter, voice

Filmed exclusively for Cal Performances on location at Art Factory, Paterson, NJ; Berlin, Germany; David’s Studio, NYC; Hartford, CT; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA in March and April 2021.

The Cal Performances at Home Spring 2021 season is dedicated to Gail and Dan Rubinfeld, leading supporters of Cal Performances and the well-being of our artists for almost 30 years. Major support provided by the U.S. Bank Foundation. This performance is made possible, in part, by Patron Sponsor Françoise Stone. Note: following its premiere, the video recording of this concert will be available on demand through August 4, 2021. 1 Music and Text by Julia Wolfe

Some Say The States Destiny Mountain Characteristics Polly Ann The Race Winner Lord Lord

Steel Hammer was commissioned by Bang on a Can with generous support from Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and .

Steel Hammer Film Credits Jeremy Robins, director, editor, and animator Kharon Benson, camera operator Hugo Faraco, camera operator Clements Wronski, camera operator (Berlin) Ras Dia, set operators coordinator Emily Hart, archival researcher Márion Talán Del Rosa, costume design Theo Kogan, stylist

Steel Hammer Film Soundtrack Credits (2021) Produced by David Cossin David Bloom, music director Recorded at the Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY and David’s Studio, New York, NY, March – April 2021 Engineered by Alex Conroy and David Cossin Edited, mixed, and mastered by David Cossin The Steel Hammer film soundtrack also includes previously recorded audio recorded at the James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio at , November 2011 & February 2012. Produced, edited, mixed, and mastered by Damian leGassick Engineered by Paul Geluso Assisted by Brian A Bourque and Eric Xu Kenny Savelson, executive director for Bang on a Can Publisher: Ricordi New York/Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP) Special Thanks Karl Larson, Sruly Lazaros, Tim McEvoy/MASS MoCA, Allen Moon/David Lieberman Artist’s Representatives, Vince Peterson, Andy Plovnick/The Bunker Studio, Zachary Ritter, Tim Thomas, Philippa Thompson For More Information Juliawolfemusic.com Bangonacan.org

2 PROGRAM NOTES Peter Serling Peter

Julia Wolfe

teel Hammer is a meditation on over 200 I drew upon the extreme variations of the versions of the “” ballad. The story, fragmenting and weaving the contradic- Svarious versions, based on hearsay, recol- tory versions of the ballad that have circulated lection, and tall tales, reveal both the evolution since the late 1800s into a new whole—at times of the story, as well as the timeless tale of human meditating on single words or phrases—in versus machine. Many of the facts are unclear: order to tell “the story of the story” and to em- some say that Henry was from West Virginia; body the simultaneous diverse paths it traveled. some say he was from South Carolina. Some To tell the tale, the Bang on a Can All-Stars have have said that his fate was set before he picked up added a slew of instruments—mountain dul- a hammer, that his woman’s name was Liza Jane cimer, wooden bones, banjo, harmonicas, and or Polly Ann—that Polly drove steel just like a body percussion—to their usual line up, as well man. But regardless of the details, John Henry, as a dynamic trio of three female voices. wielding a steel hammer, faced the onslaught of —Julia Wolfe the industrial age as his super-human strength is challenged in a contest to out-dig an engine.

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SOME SAY He was true Some say he’s from He was false some say he He was two hundred pounds some say he’s from He was two twenty-five some say He’s a worker some say he Convict say he Singer he Thirty-five years Twenty-two THE STATES Fifty Georgia Cotton picker Tennessee Steel Driver (hammer, hammer, steel, steel) Columbus, Ohio He was true Kentucky He was false Alabama He was six feet tall New Jersey He was five foot one Yew Pine Mountains He was tall Mississippi He was small Mountain He was small West Virginia He was tall South Carolina POLLY ANN DESTINY John Henry had a little woman John Henry And her name was was a little boy Polly Ann, Mary Ann, Julie Ann, Sary Ann, sitting on his papa’s knee Sally Ann, John Henry Martha Ann, Liza Ann, Lucy Ann, was a little man Mary Magdelena, Magdelena sitting on his mama’s knee John Henry had a little woman a baby boy and she was all dressed in blue, sitting on his daddy’s knee dressed in red, John Henry red, blue, black he said, “I‘m gonna be a steel drivin’ man.” John Henry’s woman said to him, He picked up his hammer and a little piece “My darling Johnny, I’ve been true.” of steel true to you, true to you He said, “This hammer’s gonna be the death John Henry had a little woman of me.” and her name was Ida Red, and her name was Liza Jane, MOUNTAIN and her name was Maggadee, The mountain was so tall Polly Ann, Mary Ann, Julie Ann, Sary Ann, John Henry was so small Sally Ann, Martha Ann, Liza Ann, Lucy Ann, CHARACTERISTICS Mary Magdelena, Magdelena He was small Ida Red, Maggadee, Liza Jane, He was tall Polly He was black When John Henry he took sick to bed, He was white then Polly drove steel just like a man.

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THE RACE two nine pound hammers The captain told John Henry two twenty pound hammers “gonna bring that steam drill ‘round” sixteen pound hammer John Henry told the captain hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer “a man ain’t nothin’ but a man” nothin’, nothin’, nothin’ WINNER but a man, but a man The man who invented the steam drill, John Henry on the right side he thought he was mighty fine. the steam drill’s on the left John Henry sunk the steel fourteen feet, right, left, right, left while the steam drill only made nine, “Before I let your steam drill beat me down, Lord Lord, I’ll hammer my fool self to death.” nine pound hammer LORD LORD ten pound hammer Lord Lord twelve pound hammer This old hammer rings like silver twenty pound hammer This old hammer shines like gold

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Julia Wolfe, composer but also of the sweetness and passion of a way Julia Wolfe’s music is distinguished by an intense of daily life now also lost. The music compels physicality and a relentless power that pushes without overstatement. This is a major, pro- performers to extremes and demands attention found work.” from the audience. She draws inspiration from Upcoming and recent work includes Flower folk, classical, and rock genres, bringing a mod- Power, a concerto for the Bang on a Can All- ern sensibility to each while simultaneously tear- Stars co-commissioned by the Los Angeles ing down the walls between them. Philharmonic and the Danish National Sym - The 2019 world premiere ofFire in my mouth, phony; Oxygen for 12 flutes, commissioned by a large-scale work for orchestra and women’s the National Flute Association and premiered chorus, by the with The by 12 flute choirs (144 flutes); and a new large- Crossing and the Young People’s Chorus of scale work, Her Story, for orchestra with the , received extensive acclaim— women’s chamber choir Lorelei, which will re- one reviewer called the work “a monumental ceive multiple performances in the 2022–23 achievement in high musical drama, among the season with a consortium of five orchestras: the most commandingly imaginative and emo- Nashville Symphony, Boston Sym phony, San tively potent works of any kind that I’ve ever ex- Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, and perienced” (The Nation Magazine). The work is National Symphony Orchestra. the third in a series of compositions about the Wolfe has collaborated with theater artist American worker: 2009’s Steel Hammer exam- ; projection/scenic de- ines the folk-hero John Henry, and the 2015 signer Jeff Sugg; filmmaker ; vi- Pulitzer Prize-winning work Fields, a sual artist Laurie Olinder; and directors concert-length oratorio for chorus and instru- François Girard, Anne Bogart, and Anne ments, draws on oral histories, interviews, Kauffman, among others. Her music has been speeches, and more to honor the people who heard at venues throughout the world, includ- persevered and endured in the Pennsylvania ing Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Anthracite coal region. Mark Swed of the Los Music, , Muziekgebouw (Neth - Angeles Times wrote that “cap- er lands), the Southbank and Barbican centers tures not only the sadness of hard lives lost… (UK), Settembre Musica (Italy), and Théâtre de

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la Ville (France.) Wolfe’s music has been ment with period instruments and new re- recorded on Decca Gold, Naxos, Cantaloupe search in musicology.” She joins the Raritan Music, Teldec, Sony Classical, and Universal. Players on the recently released recording In the In addition to receiving the Salon of Madame Brillon. Recent opera roles in- in Music, Wolfe was a 2016 MacArthur Fellow. clude le Feu in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, She received the 2015 Herb Alpert Award in Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, and the title Music, and was named Musical America’s 2019 role in Delibes’ Lakmé. Other recent soloist per- Composer of the Year. Julia Wolfe is co- formances include Beethoven’s Mass in C with founder/co-artistic director of New York’s Bang Downtown Voices, ’s dreams of the on a Can, and artistic director of NYU Stein- new world at the 2018 Prototype Festival, and hardt Music Composition. Her music is pub- Orff’s Carmina Burana with the West Village lished by Ricordi New York (ASCAP). Chorale. Music-making during the Covid-19 pandemic has included several virtual recitals, Rebecca L. Hargrove, voice and the premiere of a short opera film, How Rebecca L. Hargrove is an actress and singer. They Broke Away, music and film direction by She is a recent Grammy Award winner (Best Andy Teirstein. Headlam received her doctor- Opera Album) for her participation in the en- ate in music arts from Rutgers University, semble of the Metropolitan Opera’s Porgy and Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she has Bess. She has also been featured in the compa- also worked as a part-time lecturer in the music nies of Evita and Cabin in the Sky at New York department. City Center. During the 2019–20 season, Har - grove starred (title role) in the New York Times’ Molly Netter, voice “Critic’s Pick” performances of Acquanetta at A versatile and joyous musician, Canadian- Bard Summerscape; The Grey Land mono- American soprano Molly Netter enlivens com- opera as The Mother at Roulette Intermedium plex and beautiful music, both old and new, (album available on all streaming platforms); with “a natural warmth” (Los Angeles Times) and as Yum-Yum in The Mikado with New York and “clear, beautiful tone and vivacious person- Gilbert & Sullivan Players. Previous engage- ality” (New York Times). She can be heard on ments include Two Wings: The Music of Black five Grammy-nominated albums since 2017 America in Migration with and and has performed as a soloist with ensembles Alicia Hall-Moran at Carnegie Hall; In the such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New Parlour as Nellie Quander at the National Black World Symphony, the Boston Early Music Theater; and a series of new plays at the Lucille Festival, Apollo’s Fire, the Smithsonian Chamber Lortel Foundation. Follow her updates at Orchestra, Juilliard415, and Heartbeat Opera. www.RebeccaLHargrove.com and on Insta - Netter has been a full-time member of the gram @Rhargrov. Choir at Trinity Wall Street since 2015 and is an active performer, curator, educator, and advo- Sonya Headlam, voice cate of new music, regularly commissioning Soprano Sonya Headlam is a soloist, chamber, new works by living composers. Recent collab- and ensemble singer who performs a diverse orators include , Julia Wolfe, Amy range of repertoire that ranges from the Beth Kirsten, Doug Balliett, Katherine Balch, Baroque period to the 21st century. She is a Molly Joyce, and Jessica Meyer. Notable cham- member of the Grammy-nominated Choir of ber performance highlights include inaugural Trinity Wall Street, and performs regularly with casts of Pulitzer-winning operas Angel’s Bone the Vocalis Consort, a group of musicians de- (, 2015) and (Ellen Reid, 2017). voted to sharing their passion for art song, and Netter was a featured curator/performer on with the Raritan Players, an ensemble that “ex- Trinity Wall Street’s 2018 acclaimed Time’s plores lost performance practices and repertoire Arrow Festival, programming an eclectic of the 17th and 18th centuries through engage- evening of Barbara Strozzi paired with newly

6 ABOUT THE ARTISTS commissioned contemporary works. In 2020, scribed her recording of Michael Gordon’s she began commissioning an entirely new Sonatra as “a milestone of composition, and repertoire for self-accompanied singer and clav- Vicky Chow’s recording of it is a milestone of icytherium, emphasizing the florid voice, early pianism.” Her album Surface Image, composed music vocal techniques, and improvisation as a by Tristan Perich, was among the top ranked bridge between style and genre. Netter holds a avant albums in the Rolling Stone magazine. As bachelor’s degree in composition and contem- an artist frequently broadcasted on WNYC porary voice from Oberlin Conservatory and radio, her recorded work can be found on the an master’s in early music voice from the Yale Nonesuch, New Amsterdam, Tzadik, and Can- Institute of Sacred Music. She is currently on taloupe Music labels. Interviews and articles voice faculty at the Oberlin Baroque Perfor - featuring Chow have been published in the mance Institute. www.mollynettervoice.com. Huffington Post, Gramophone, the New York Times, and elsewhere. As an educator, she has given master classes, seminars, and workshops BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS at the , Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, New York Robert Black, bass University, Beijing Conservatory, Moscow State Robert Black, a founding and current member Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Bard College, and of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, tours the world Syd ney Conservatorium of Music. Chow is on creating unheard-of music for the , faculty at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at collaborating with the most adventurous com- MASS MoCA in North Adams (MA) and has posers, musicians, dancers, artists, actors, and also been on faculty at the Banff Centre for Arts technophiles from all walks of life. Current and Creativity. She is also on the board of advi- projects include First Fridays with Robert sors for Composers Now, and is a mentor for Black—a monthly series of streamed solo bass the Juilliard School mentoring program. Chow recitals; a 10-channel audio/video double bass is a Yamaha Artist. www.vickychow.com. installation reflecting on the Anthropocene with sound artists Brian House and Sue Huang, David Cossin, percussion filmed at the Freshkills landfill in NYC; an out- David Cossin was born and raised in Queens door environmental work for 24 basses with (NY) and studied classical percussion at the composer Eve Beglarian, and commissions Manhattan School of Music. His interest in clas- from Carman Moore, Joan Tower, Nick Dun- sical percussion, drum set, non-western hand ston, Žibuolkė Martinaitytė, Krists Auznieks, drumming, composition, and improvisation Jakhongir Shukurov, and Daniel Sabzghabaei. has led to performances across a broad spec- Solo recordings include Possessed (Cantaloupe trum of musical and artistic forms. Cossin has Records), Modern American Bass (New World recorded and performed internationally with Records), The Bass Music of Christian Wolffand and Musicians, , Yo-Yo Giacinto Scelsi (Mode Records), and State of the Ma, , Tan Dun, Cecil Taylor, Bass (O.O. Discs). Black teaches at the Hartt Talujon Percussion Quartet, and the trio Real School/University of Hartford, the Manhattan Quiet, as well as with Sting on his Symphonicity School of Music, and the New Music on the world tour. Theater work includes Blue Man Point Festival. Group, Mabou Mines, and projects with the di- rector Peter Sellars. Cossin was featured as the Vicky Chow, piano solo percussionist in Tan Dun’s award-winning Chinese-Canadian pianist Vicky Chow has score to the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden been described as “brilliant” (The New York Dragon. As a soloist, he has performed with or- Times) and “one of our era’s most brilliant pi- chestras throughout the world including the anists” (Pitchfork). She is currently the pianist and Orchestra for Bang on a Can All-Stars. The New Yorker de- Radio France. His sonic installations have been

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presented in New York, Italy, and Germany, and toured with Simon since 1998. A founding he is also an active producer, composer, and in- member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the strument inventor, expanding the limits of tra- duo Polygraph Lounge with keyboard and ditional percussion. Cossin teaches percussion theremin wizard Rob Schwim mer, Mark has at the Aaron Copland School of Music and the also worked with Steve Reich, Sting, Anthony Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Braxton, , Wynton Marsalis, Mere- Performance Program. dith Monk, Stevie Wonder, Phillip Glass, , Terry Riley, Ornette Coleman, Arlen Hlusko, cello Edie Brickell, , Joan Baez, Hugh Internationally acclaimed Canadian cellist Arlen Masakela, Paul McCart ney, Cecil Taylor, Bill Hlusko is a dynamic, versatile young artist who Frisell, Jimmy Cliff, Charles Wourinen, the has performed extensively as a soloist and Everly Brothers, Steve Gadd, , Alison cham ber musician across North America, Asia, Krauss, David Krakauer & Klezmer Madness, and Europe. A laureate of numerous competi- Bobby McFer rin, , James Taylor, tions, a Grammy Award winner for her collab- The Roches, Aaron Neville, Bette Midler, and oration with The Crossing, and a recent . He is the inventor of the Whirly - graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Copter, a bicycle-powered Pythagorean choir of Hlusko is currently a member of Ensemble singing tubes and the Big Boing, a 24-foot sonic Connect (the resident ensemble of Carnegie banquet table mbira that seats 30 children play- Hall) and regularly performs with several en- ing 490 found objects, and he is a visiting sembles based on the East Coast, including the lecturer in musical instrument design and per- Bang on a Can All-Stars and Dolce Suono formance practice at MIT. Stewart is also a cu- Ensemble. She has recently been featured per- rator at MASS MoCA of the immersive Gunnar former with groups including the Los Angeles Schonbeck exhibit of musical instruments and Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, and the co-founder of SoundstewArt, a company that National Arts Centre Orchestra. Hlusko has designs immersive sound environments and also been on the roster of preeminent summer community music-making experiences. He festivals including Music from Angel Fire, lives in Brooklyn and North Adams, MA, play- Tippet Rise, Spoleto USA, and Bay Chamber ing, singing, and writing popular music, semi- Concerts. As a teacher, she has served on faculty popular music, and unpopular music, while of Curtis Summerfest, the New York Philhar - designing instruments that everyone can play. monic, and Orchestra Teaching Artists, and given master classes in the USA, Ken Thomson, clarinets and harmonica Canada, and Germany. Committed to using her A staple of New York City’s contemporary music to serve her community, Hlusko founded music and jazz communities, Ken Thomson is her own interactive concert se- widely respected for his ability to blend a rich ries, Philadelphia Performances for Autism, and variety of influences and styles into his own is involved with several communities in Phila - musical language while maintaining a voice un- delphia and New York City, including Carnegie mistakably his own. Thomson has a growing Hall’s “Musical Connections” at Sing Sing catalog of music written for ensembles of dif- Correctional Facility. arlenhlusko.com. fering sizes, and has toured with and released a number of albums with groups that he has cre- Mark Stewart, electric guitar, banjo, ated. His latest project combining the sounds of mountain dulcimer, harmonica jazz and contemporary music, Sextet, has Multi-instrumentalist, singer, song leader, com- toured across the US and Europe and selected poser, and instrument designer Mark Stewart one of the top recordings of 2018 by websites has been heard around the world, performing Second Inversion and AnEarful. Thomson re- old and new music. As the music director for leased two albums with his previous project, a 's band, Stewart has recorded and five-piece group called Slow/Fast, that were

8 ABOUT THE ARTISTS praised by the New York Times for their “intri- residency program that uses music to bridge the cate long-form compositions” and earned a gulf between young American musicians and five-star review in All About Jazz. He has two young musicians from developing countries; full-length CDs available of his chamber music cross-disciplinary collaborations and projects compositions: 2013’s Thaw with the JACK with DJs, visual artists, choreographers, film- Quartet and 2016’s Restless with cellist Ashley makers, and more. Each new program has Bathgate and pianist Karl Larson. Thomson is evolved to answer specific challenges faced by also active as a freelance clarinetist and saxo- today’s musicians, composers, and audiences, phonist, performing with groups including the in order to make innovative music widely ac- Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble Signal, cessible and wildly received. Bang on a Can’s International Con temporary Ensemble, and inventive and aggressive approach to program- Novus. He is also on faculty on the Bang on a ming and presentation has created a large and Can Summer Institute at MASS MoCA. vibrant international audience made up of peo- Thomson is a D’Addario Woodwinds artist. ple of all ages who are rediscovering the value of www.ktonline.net contemporary music. Bang on a Can has also recently launched its new digital archive, CAN- Bang on a Can LAND, an extensive archive of its recordings, Founded in 1987 by composers Michael Gor - videos, posters, program books, and more. don, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, Bang on a Thirty-three years of collected music and asso- Can has been creating an international com- ciated ephemera have been digitized and munity dedicated to innovative music, wher- archived online and is publicly accessible in its ever it is found, and has grown from a one-day entirety at www.canland.org. New York-based marathon concert to a multi- For more information about Bang on a Can, faceted performing arts organization with a please visit www.bangonacan.org. broad range of year-round international activ- ities. In addition to its festivals LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA and LONG PLAY, current Bang on a Can Board of Directors projects include live.bangonacan.org, a digital Betto Arcos, Daniel Baldini, Jeffrey Bishop, streaming platform launched during the Stephen Block, Jeffrey Calman, Michael Gor - pandemic with an ongoing schedule of live - don, Lynette Jaffe, Alan Kifferstein, Michael streamed concerts and world-premiere per- Kushner, David Lang, Lesley Lassiter, George formances of new commissions; The People’s Lewis, Raulee Marcus, Elizabeth Murrell, Robert Commissioning Fund, a membership program A. Skirnick, Jane Stewart, Sandra Tait, Julia to commission emerging composers; the Bang Wolfe, Adam Wolfensohn. on a Can All-Stars, who tour to major festivals and concert venues around the world every Bang on a Can Staff year; recording projects; the Bang on a Can Michael Gordon, artistic director Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a pro- David Lang, artistic director fessional development program for young com- Julia Wolfe, artistic director posers and performers led by today’s pioneers Kenny Savelson, executive director of experimental music; Asphalt Orchestra, Tim Thomas,development director Bang on a Can’s extreme street band that offers Philippa Thompson,project manager and mobile performances re-contextualizing un- summer festival manager usual music; Found Sound Nation, a new tech- Sruly Lazaros, producer nology-based musical outreach program now Brian Petuch, accounts manager partnering with the US State Department to Adam Cuthbert, licensing and store manager create OneBeat, a revolutionary, post-political Jensen Artists, publicity

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Bang on a Can’s 2021 programs are made pos- Arts Foundation, Jeremy Mindich & Amy sible with generous lead support from: Smith, Elizabeth Murrell & Gary Haney, Amphion Foundation, ASCAP and ASCAP National Endowment for the Arts, New Music Foundation, Atlantic Records, Daniel Baldini, USA, New York Community Trust, New York Stephen A. Block, Bishop Fund, Jeffrey Calman, State Council on the Arts (with the support of Charina Endowment Fund, City of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Aaron Copland State Legislature), Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Fund for Music, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Scopia Capital Management, Mat - Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia thew Sirovich & Meredith Elson, Maria & University, Exploring the Arts, Howard Gilman Robert A. Skirnick, Jane & Dick Stewart, Sandra Foundation, Jaffe Family Foundation,, Alan Tait and Hal Foster, Trust for Mutual Under - Kifferstein & Joan Finkelstein, Michael Kushner, standing, Williamson Foundation for Music, Leslie Lassiter, Herb Leventer, MAP Fund, Adam Wolfensohn & Jennifer Small, and Raulee Marcus, MASS MoCA, Mid Atlantic Wolfensohn Family Foundation.

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