Silent Voices Album Review from Textura

Textura

December 27, 2018

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“Don't mistake Brooklyn Youth Chorus for a grade-school choir belting out gleeful tunes for the school assembly. Though the group's singers range in age from twelve to eighteen, they're a preternaturally mature bunch unafraid of tackling topically relevant issues and injustice in all its forms. A natural tension emerges in the contrast between the youthful sonorities of their voices and the dramatic political content presented in the group's sophomore album, but if anything that contrast accentuates how central such issues already are for a generation on the cusp of adulthood. It's not hard to understand how the singers come to be so enlightened: members of the Grammy Award-winning outfit (for its involvement in the premiere recording of John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls) are drawn from five boroughs and thus represent a socio-economically diverse portrait of NYC youth.”

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Silent Voices Album Named Top 10 Contemporary Classical Music Albums

I Care If You Listen

By Amanda Cook | December 21, 2018

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"Silent Voices not only gives voice to those who have been historically marginalized, but also gives the members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus agency over their message and their music making, allowing them to act as catalysts for change. The young choristers not only demonstrate a mature comprehension of the subject matter, but also exhibit an impressive command of vocal styles ranging from hip hop to gospel to contemporary techniques to bel canto singing."

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Hagoromo Album Review from Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

By Grego Applegate Edwards | December 20, 2018

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"A lively vaguely Asian percussion singularity and an alto flute in harmonics mode begins the work mysteriously and the very pronounced resonance of the work is established. The work falls naturally into the performative of soloists and chorus and the instrumental parts too seem natural. Yet all of it has an almost ritual primality at times, as definite echoes of the Noh music from the original. At the same time in varying degrees there is a High Modernity of harmonic-melodic intent. All this works quite well for a result very intriguing and worthwhile. It all falls most nicely onto the ears. The youth chorus gives the sound quality a heightened mythical aura as does the orchestration as well. It is most lovely music! Nathan Davis is a natural! Brilliant!"

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Silent Voices Album Review from I Care If You Listen

I Care If You Listen

By Jeremiah Cawley |

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"The truth of Silent Voices is that the Brooklyn Youth Chorus displays tremendous musicianship, stylistic sensitivity, and vocal flexibility while powerfully demanding that listeners confront hard truths about racism, gender roles and discrimination, ageism, the social responsibilities of politics, and displaced populations. Period."

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How This Brooklyn Entrepreneur Disrupted Children’s Music

December 9, 2018

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"What a lot of people don’t realize is that there is an entrepreneur behind the Brooklyn Youth Chorus: Dianne Berkun Menaker, a former music teacher who founded the 600-member choir in 1992."

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I Care If You Listen on Silent Voices: If You Listen

I Care if You Listen

July 17, 2018

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"For their part, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus endeavors to “celebrate the power of young people to be instruments of change, amplifying the voices of those who have been overpowered, marginalized, or rendered silent.”

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Watch Silent Voices composer Toshi Reagon Discuss “Brooklyn Bound”

September 14, 2017

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Silent Voices composer Toshi Reagon discusses her work "Brooklyn Bound" in WQXR's Q2 Music short documentary "Holding Gentrification."

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25 Years of Brooklyn Youth Chorus

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It has been a milestone year for us at Brooklyn Youth Chorus. We released our first album, were Artists-in-Residence at WQXR, had our Broadway debut and realized an impactful evening-length work, Silent Voices, on the BAM Opera House stage. In this video, we interview current students and alumni, New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert, and our own Founder & Artistic Director Dianne Berkun Menaker to show you what Brooklyn Youth Chorus is all about.

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Black Mountain Songs Album Receives Rave Reviews from The New Yorker

The New Yorker

By Russell Platt | March 27, 2017

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“Black Mountain Songs” earned a rave review in the Times—and when you hear the astonishingly secure performance of the young singers, who have been tasked with executing some formidably complex choral textures, you immediately understand why. But when divorced from the production the unevenness of the selections is inevitably apparent."

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New Amsterdam Records to release Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ debut album, Black Mountain Songs, March 31

February 14, 2017

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New Amsterdam Records is proud to announce the release of Black Mountain Songs, the debut album from the Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus, out March 31.

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Watch Brooklyn Youth Chorus Perform “Silver Bells” with Sarah McLachlan

December 5, 2016

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Brooklyn Youth Chorus performs at the 90th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

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Caroline Shaw paves the way for new music

The Guardian

By Stacey Anderson | June 9, 2016

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Dianne Berkun Menaker comments on Caroline's music for the chorus and new music in general.

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Let Their Voices Soar!

Brooklyn Daily

By Dennis Lynch | March 24, 2016

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Brooklyn Youth Chorus's Ready, Set, Sing Program at PS 1 in Sunset Park takes the spotlight in an article that appeared in the Brooklyn Daily.

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Watch Caroline Shaw’s Anni’s Constant from Black Mountain Songs

October 27, 2015

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Brooklyn Youth Chorus performs Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw's "Anni's Constant" from their groundbreaking production, Black Mountain Songs. Recorded live in concert at BAM, Nov 20-23, 2014, as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival.

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Collaboration with Caroline Shaw and Kanye West

October 21, 2015

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Composer and friend Caroline Shaw collaborated with Kanye West for his latest song "Say You Will." Listen to it here:

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