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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Its history echoes and r

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Its history echoes and resonates... Its history is also interpreted, so art continues to derive from it... Among so many creative forces, I was honored to lend my voice and contribute.
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Based on the novel by Colson Whitehead. Directed by @bandrybarry [Barry Jenkins]. Music composed by @nicholasbritell. Now available on @amazonprimevideo
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[Image description: Slide 1 is a 30 second excerpt of a short Aria from the limited series THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, with composer at the piano and me singing. Slide 2 is an excerpt of the official trailer, featuring actors @thuso.mbedu @williamjacksonharper @aaron_pierre1, with my voice singing oo’s and ah’s]
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An a cappella Birthday Song transformed into a Mot

An a cappella Birthday Song transformed into a Mother’s Day comedy routine! @christianreifconductor and I send lots of love from quarantine in London, Mama!!!

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On this day, I must say,
Especially when you’re far away...

You’re a mother like no other,
Wouldn’t trade you for another...

‘Even when you fight with each other?’

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY @allyce.bullock
♥️😆♥️
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[Image description: a selfie video of my husband, Christian, and me in black t-shirts, sitting at an electric keyboard and singing a Mother’s Day dedication to my mom! Lyrics provided above!]
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#HappyMothersDay #mothers #daughters #quarantine #musicmaking #HomeIsWhereTheHeartIs

I love how personal experiences become realized in

I love how personal experiences become realized in musical contexts.
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Here’s a timeline...
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2009: my last year @eastman.school I went to an independent, used-bookstore across the street on a whim and bought THE PORTABLE BLAKE, by poet, painter, printmaker William Blake (1757–1827)
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2010: composer, singer, bassist @esperanzaspalding released her recording of “Little Fly” — a setting of William Blake’s poem “The Fly”, which Spalding also found on a whim, in a bookstore...
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2012: first time I read through my portable Blake book while doing research for my graduate recital at @bardcollege. I titled the program, “Songs of Innocence and of Experience” after one of Blake’s greatest volumes of poetry (pub. 1794) — opening the recital with musical settings of William Blake, closing with settings of Langston Hughes (I was still unaware of esperanza spalding’s song at this time)
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2020: I was reconsidering how to translate the live @sfsymphony concert program, LINEAGE, into a virtual one, and recalled esperanza spalding’s “Little Fly”...
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2021: this tune and many more were released as a part of LINEAGE at website www.sfspymphonyplus.org! Check it all out & read more details in the digital program book!
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[image description: Slide 1 is a performance of Julia Bullock singing “Littly Fly” on the SFS program LINEAGE with San Francisco Symphony musicians. Slide 2 is the title page of the book, THE PORTABLE BLAKE. Slide 3 is a @newshour interview of composer Esperanza Spalding explaining the creation of the song “Little Fly.” Slides 4-6 are pictures of the poem “The Fly” by William Blake. Slide 7 included for fun is a short clip of Arúan Ortiz’s MOMPOUANA inspired by @esperanzaspalding’s album “Junjo” with @sfsymphonymusicians
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THE FLY (by William Blake)
Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
Thy thoughtless hand
has brushed away.

Am not I a fly like thee
Or art not thou a man like me

For I dance
and drink and sing
Till some blind hand
shall brush my wing.

If thought is life
and strength and breath
and the want of thought
is death.

Then am I
A happy fly.
If I live
Or if I die.
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needing to fill the world with some celebration of

needing to fill the world with some celebration of life today... here’s my niece, Arya, and my sister, Sarah, releasing butterflies after caring for them at home...
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I will continue to talk about, sing about, cry about, dream about, grieve about, and be angry about the loss of young Black lives, but I need to continue celebrating life today. Every day.
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wish I was with my family to enjoy this moment... and honestly every moment.
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📸 @allyce.bullock
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#blacklivesmatter #butterflies #celebratinglife #family #springtime

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