Name: Fire In My Mouth
Start: 2024-08-21
End: 2024-08-21
Location: Usher Hall

Admin

Edinburgh International Festival

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Others

National Youth Choir of Scotland

Conductor

Marin Alsop

Chorus master

Christopher Bell

Fire In My Mouth

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Usher Hall

Fire In My Mouth: Fire In My Mouth Wolfe, Julia

Public

Sushant Karmakar

Approved

Trailblazing (New York Times) conductor Marin Alsop, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the female voices of the National Youth Choir of Scotland come together for the first UK performance of Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth.

Fire in my mouth commemorates the most fatal industrial disaster in New York’s history. Against the backdrop of the worker’s protest movement, the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire stole the lives of 146 garment workers, who were mostly women of immigrant backgrounds. Here, every victim is represented by a choir member. Yiddish and Italian folk songs, along with the clatter of the factory and the terror of the inferno, create a haunting soundscape.

This multimedia performance includes cutting-edge scenic, lighting and video designs by Tony Award-winner Jeff Sugg.

English

Fire In My Mouth by Wolfe, Julia, Wed 21 Aug 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Marin Alsop, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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