Finally finished “To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music and Mystery of Connie Converse” — it took three, 1.5 hr reading sessions, almost 2 months apart, because…? Time... and demands on time… Writer Howard...
Hans Werner Henze’s El Cimarrón (The Runaway Slave) is a tour-de-force sonic onslaught based on the oral autobiography of Esteban Montejo, an enslaved Afro-Cuban who escaped bondage on a sugar plantation, survived in the jungle,...
Powerful and incisive poems by Langston Hughes are recited and set to music in a recital curated by Julia Bullock. A Dream Deferred became a New York Times Critic’s Pick when first presented in 2018....
Julia Bullock was the first singing artist to be invited “in residence” at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, and it also marked her first-ever artist residency. This hallmark 2018-19 season led to the...
