28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
At the Kennedy Center, the NSO offers a bracing history lesson
On Thursday night at the Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra gave the D.C. premiere of Julia Wolfe's masterfully crafted two-movement piece 'Her Story,' in a riveting performance led by Marin Alsop and enhanced by the 10 voices of the Grammy-nominated Lorelei Ensemble.
An urgent, engrossing 30-minute oratorio on the fight for women's suffrage, 'Her Story' is the kind of provocative, inventive music that American orchestras — and American arts centers — should pursue and program (posthaste). If you can make the repeat on Saturday, you should.
