A Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes in Song

Julia Bullock and Friends

Langston Hughes’s poems such as “Harlem,” “Genius Child,” and “Song for a Dark Girl” are set to music in this recital curated and performed by Julia Bullock, who is joined by soprano Nicole Cabell (“sheer sumptuous gorgeousness,” The Mercury News), New York Philharmonic Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill (“trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character,” The New York Times), Jessie Montgomery, violin, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, as well as pianist/composers Ricky Ian Gordon and John Musto.