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Music & History from the Navy Yard
Episode 1256

Music & History from the Navy Yard

Jad Abumrad, creator of Radiolab, and Dianne Berkun Menaker, Brooklyn Youth Chorus founder & artistic director, talk about Port(al), their new site-specific work for the chorus set at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

The Brian Lehrer Show

April 29, 202519m 47s

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Show Notes

Jad Abumrad, composer, musician and storyteller, creator of WNYC's Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America, and More Perfect, a professor of research at Vanderbilt University, and the co-composer and librettist for Port(al), and Dianne Berkun Menaker, Brooklyn Youth Chorus founder and artistic director and co-creator of Port(al), talk about the new site-specific work about the history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.  They're joined by chorus member Josie Devlin.

Topics

musicbrooklyn_navy_yardlocal_wnycyouthlocal_newshistoryculture