The most telling moment in Julia Bullock’s recital on Saturday evening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art came before she’d sung a note. The five-event series continues on Dec. 2 with a program of new works with texts by Langston Hughes. But with the lights still up in the auditorium, Ms. Bullock modestly entered with the nine string players. Ms. Bullock seemed to be emphasizing that, at the Met, she would truly be an artist, not a diva, in residence. She serves the work she’s singing, even as she makes it better.

Source: New York Times September 16, 2018 17:37 UTC