10/09/2026
The breaker boys of Pennsylvania's coal region started working the mines as young as eight years old. They sat for hours sorting coal with their bare hands, breathing black dust. Julia Wolfe listened to their stories and built Anthracite Fields around them. Chorus pro Musica performs it at the Cutler Majestic on November 14th. Learn more at https://choruspromusica.org/event/julia-wolfe-anthracite-fields/
Lewis Hine, photographing for the National Child Labor Committee, January 1911. Library of Congress