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The NYPO in February begins with Fire (2/2) and Fireworks (2/9) @ 3pm

Composer Julia Wolfe's latest composition, Fire in My Mouth, looks at American labor history, and one of the most tragic and deadly workplace disasters in American history (2/2), and then Handel's Royal Fireworks Music (2/9)

Members of the 146-voice chorus, dressed as garment workers, in composer Julia Wolfe's Fire In My Mouth, which documents the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York.
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Members of the 146-voice chorus, dressed as garment workers, in composer Julia Wolfe's Fire In My Mouth, which documents the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York.

2/2 Wolfe: Fire in My Mouth (Women of The Crossing, Donald Nally, dir; The Young People’s Chorus of New York, Franciso Núñez, dir; Jaap van Zweden, cond)

2/9 Handel: Royal Fireworks Music, Water Music Suites 2 and 3; Ode to St. Cecilia (Pierre Boulez and Leonard Bernstein, cond)

2/16 Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 Reich: Music for Ensemble and Orchestra Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (Yefim Bronfman, p; Jaap van Zweden, cond)

2/23 Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 (Yefim Bronfman, p; Alan Gilbert, cond)