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"Keeping the Look Loose": Embodying Change with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus

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Channel: WQXR · 2017 · Music

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"Keeping the Look Loose" features music by composer Kamala Sankaram, and lyrics written by renowned prose-poet Claudia Rankine "(Citizen," "Don’t Let Me Be Lonely"). Performed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus as part of Silent Voices, this piece is an anthem to overcoming the torrent of doubts young women face around issues of body image.

Silent Voices, a multimedia concert series produced and performed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus, harnesses the power of young people to be instruments of change, giving voice to those silenced or marginalized. The Chorus has commissioned a diverse group of innovative artists to interpret rich historical narratives and personal stories in creating music that explores race and identity, gender and sexuality, inequity and social disparity—music that matters.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus serves as WQXR’s 2016-2017 Artist-in-Residence. Throughout the season, the Chorus appears in The Greene Space at WQXR, performs at venues around New York City in concerts webcast live on Q2 Music, and will be featured in associated on-air and online programming at wqxr.org.

Directed and produced by Abe Zverow and Justin Sergi for Q2 Music, with host Helga Davis, sound designer Hannis Brown, and executive producer Alex Ambrose.

Performance footage recorded live by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and WQXR at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on May 12, 2017, and filmed and edited by Oxbow Lake Films.

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