Credits

Carolyn Yarnell’s I Come Up The Hard Way and this world ain’t my home (2022) commissioned by Yale Schwarzman Center as part of Bryce Dessner’s Artist-in-Residence Series, Produced by ArKtype.

Photo of Nellie Mae Rowe, Vinings, Georgia 1971 ©Melinda Blauvelt (Yale BA'71, Yale MFA'73) All Rights Reserved

Jessie Montgomery’s Five Freedom Songs was co-commissioned by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Alasdair Neale, Music Director and Elaine Carroll, CEO. These are NHSO’s premiere performances of the work.

Cassie Kinoshi’s blue skies, bluer seas was commissioned by Philharmonia Orchestra, London

Julia Bullock wishes to express thanks and appreciation to lawyer Bryan Stevenson and social worker Maria Morrison at the Equal Justice Initiativefor facilitating correspondence with their clients over the past years; artist Nicola White, who helped make connections with poets and their family members at San Quentin Prison; for administrators at the Artists Rights Society, the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, the High Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The San Francisco Symphony, Arktype and Yale Schwarzman Center. 

Musicians of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra 

Violin I 

Stephan Tieszen, Concertmaster
Bin Gui, Assistant Principal
Jorhendi Esquivel 
Emma Carleton

Violin II

Stephanie Hug, Principal
Elisabeth Ewe, Assistant Principal
Gregory Tompkins
Marika Basagoitia

Viola

Marvin Warshaw, Principal
Ellen Higham, Assistant Principal
Yaroslav Kargin

Cello

Rebecca Patterson, Principal
Olivia Jakyoung Huh, Assistant Principal
Jill Emerson 

Bass

Chris Johnson, Principal
Samantha Donato, Assistant Principal and Electric Bass

Percussion

Aya Kaminaguchi, Principal
Christopher Smith

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