Walking In The Dark

Classical singer Julia Bullock makes her solo recording debut, Walking in the Dark, on Nonesuch Records.  Bullock is joined on the album by London’s Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Christian Reif for Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and an aria from John Adams’s El Niño.  With Reif on piano she also performs a traditional spiritual and songs by Oscar Brown, Jr.; Billy Taylor; and Sandy Denny.  The Connie Converse song ‘One by One’, whose lyrics are featured in the album title, is out now.

Of the album’s varied repertoire, Bullock says, “This music and poetry have contributed to my development as a classical singer.  Over the years, I’ve returned to this material with reconsideration, revision, and review, and that makes me undoubtedly call these songs ‘classics’ – classics, which are inclusive of traditions across cultures, and celebrate a diversity of thought, expression, and experience.”