Montgomeryville native Julia Wolfe, 56, has won a Pulitzer Prize for Music for her powerful piece "Anthracite Fields," first performed in Philadelphia.
The work is an oratorio composition for a chorus and a sextet - a formation containing exactly six members – and evokes Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th century, according to The Pulitzer Prizes website.
Wolfe describes herself as a musical renegade, with inspirations that come from folks, classical and rock, the AP reports.
"Anthracite Fields" was performed in April 2014 by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, of which she is the co-founder, and the Mendelssohn Club Chorus, a Philadelphia choral group.