BED-STUY SERIES | YOU’RE CAUSING QUITE A DISTURBANCE
Saturday, June 8, 2013, 7:30 pm
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
$35 – $125
“Trust Brooklyn to have the hippest philharmonic.”
-The New York Times
Four-time Grammy Award winner and “First Lady of Neo-Soul” Erykah Badu comes home to Brooklyn for a groundbreaking concert that redefines the scope and depth of hip-hop-orchestral fusion.Pairing Badu with Brooklyn composer Ted Hearne, the Brooklyn Philharmonic will perform an evening of seamlessly integrated new music featuring collaborative arrangements of songs from Badu’s 2008 album New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War, along with new music by Hearne featuring perspectives from prominent contemporary African-American thinkers on New Amerykah’s ideas about identity, hip-hop, and community.
Support for the 2012-2013 has been provided by TD Bank, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Hearst Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, Fund for the City of New York, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Tiger Baron Foundation, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Lead supporters of education and community programming include National Grid Foundation, HSBC Philanthropies, Brooklyn Community Foundation and Macy’s.Public support for the Brooklyn Philharmonic has been provided by the 21st Century Community Learning Center, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development as well as the New York City Department for the Aging. The Brooklyn Philharmonic especially thanks New York City Council Members Lewis Fidler, Domenic Recchia, Brad Lander, and Jumaane Williams, as well as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
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