History’s Persistent Voice(San Francisco Symphony)
Curator and Classical Singer Julia Bullock
Conductor Christian Reif
Visual Art and Projection Design by Hana Kim
Additional animation by Patricia Luna, Katerina Pagsolingan
History's Persistent Voice is a multimedia ethnographic anthology envisioned by curator and GRAMMY Award-winning singer Julia Bullock. The program’s focus is on the influence of pre-Emancipation voices across generations, emphasizing that era’s poetic musical traditions while centering the multifaceted identities of the Black American experience, realized through art. These works are given new life through Bullock's powerhouse vocal renditions, far-ranging connective research, and a quintet of newly commissioned compositions crafted by an esteemed roster of American women of color that features Jessie Montgomery, Tania León, Allison Loggins-Hull, Carolyn Yarnell, and Pamela Z.