Brooklyn Youth Chorus: Silent Voices

MUSIC
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2018
7:30 PM

(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$25-$30
https://lpr.com/lpr_events/brooklyn-youth-chorus-november-6th-2018/

The Brooklyn Youth Chorus is great, let's get that out of the way.  And this project (the release of which in album form is being celebrated tonight) features a formidable list of composers in the contemporary easy-to-listen-to-but-in-no-way-Easy-Listening vein, including such out-and-out faves as Caroline Shaw, Kamala Sankaram, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Nicho Muhly, and DJ Spooky.  But to tell you the truth, I found this project -- which includes edifying spoken-word passages (by really good writers, to be fair) along with the music -- a wee bit too earnest in prior performances.  I mean, sure, earnestness is an appealing thing in teenagers.  But that doesn't mean you want to sit down andlisten to it.  OTOH, that music . . . .

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:   Maybe this is a show you'd actually want to eat before.  In that case, Berber Street Food or Llamita or South of the Clouds(Crossing the Bridge Noodles by the son of the Yun Nan Flavor Garden folks!).  Afterwards, I'm not going to be cynical enough to send you to Existing Conditions for cocktails.  No, I'm going to send you to Bessou, for some of the most delicious Japanese home-style cooking you've ever had in some of the most charming surroundings you've ever experienced (outside of a Japanese home, of course).