Silent Voices: Lovestate, New Victory Theater, 2019
Silent Voices: Lovestate (2019)
Silent Voices: Lovestate, the third installment in the Silent Voices series, builds on the success of its earlier premieres at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House, National Sawdust, and PROTOTYPE Festival, in a program including stand-out works from the earlier series and new premieres. In Lovestate, a dynamic roster of composers and artists collaborate with the choristers in confronting the challenges of division and categorization, racism, sexism, immigration, threats to our environment and our understanding of truth, as we seek to affirm our vision of a more inclusive and compassionate future—a world we can all look forward to. Unifying this musically and topically broad work is the distinctively versatile and beautiful sound of the rigorously-trained singers, a chorus of culturally and socioeconomically diverse New York City young people, ages 12–18.
Commissioned composers for Lovestate include: Pulitzer Prize winners David Lang and Caroline Shaw, Olga Bell, Nico Muhly, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Paola Prestini, Toshi Reagon, Shaina Taub, and Shelley Washington.
Produced by Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Performed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus and International Contemporary Ensemble
Conceived and Conducted by Dianne Berkun Menaker
Director - Kevin Newbury
Video Design - S. Katy Tucker
Sound Design - Garth MacAleavey
Dramaturgy - Peter McCabe
Choreographer - Melissa Mahone
Silent Voices is a multimedia, multi-composer, and multi-year series of concert works with spoken word conceived, produced and performed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Silent Voices amplifies the voices of those silenced or marginalized and harnesses the power of young people to be instruments of change. The Chorus has commissioned a diverse group of innovative artists to interpret rich personal stories and historical narratives exploring contemporary themes of identity, orientation, status, boundaries and belonging.
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