SF Symphony Collaborative Partner and classical vocalist Julia Bullock curates a SoundBox program, featuring members of the SF Symphony and Chorus, pianist Sarah Cahill, and violinist Benjamin Beilman.

This century-spanning program bridges defiant contrasts and unearths surprising connections. See the sparks fly when history bends and legacies collide.

Program:
NINA SIMONE (arr. Julia Bullock): ‘Revolution’
J.S. BACH: Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN: ‘O frodens virga’
NINA SIMONE: ‘Images’ (text, William Waring Cuney)
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON: Plain Blue/s from ‘Blues Forms,’ for solo violin
GEORGE WALKER: Lyric for Strings
ARUAN ORTIZ (transcribed Edmar Colón): ‘Mompouana’
ESPERANZA SPALDING: ‘Little Fly’
ELIZABETH OGONEK: variations on many forms, from ‘In Silence’
FRANCIS POULENC: Pastorale–Modéré and Final–Presto et pas plus, from ‘Rapsodie Nègre
ELIZABETH OGONEK: In this uncontainable night, from ‘Orpheus Suite’ (after Rilke)
RICKY IAN GORDON: ‘Litany’