Arts & Entertainment
Brooklyn Philharmonic Bed-Stuy Series: Full Orchestra Concert: Featuring Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)
A profound and authentic lover of language, renowned Bed-Stuy artist Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) is one of the most influential hip-hop stars of all time. He joins Artistic Director Alan Pierson and the Brooklyn Philharmonic in bringing together the aggressive energy and charged lyrics of American hip-hop, the classic ballads of legendary Bed-Stuy singer and activist Lena Horne, and the revolutionary music of Beethoven, remixed anew by emerging artists living and working in East Brooklyn today (more info about the Brooklyn Philharmonic Beethoven Remix Project is here).
This concert is presented in partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
Featuring:
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), rapper
Leslie Uggams, voice
String players from the Noel Pointer Foundation Youth String Orchestra
Alan Pierson and Linda Twine, conductors
Brooklyn Philharmonic
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Program:
Beethoven Symphony no. 3, Finale
Two Beethoven remixes, arr. Andrew Norman
Lena Horne Tribute
Cole Porter, From this Moment On written for Out of This World (1951)
Fats Waller and Andy Razaf, Honeysuckle Rose (1928)
Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, Lady is a Tramp from Babes in Arms (1937)
Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, Stormy Weather (1933)
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) arr. Derek Bermel, Life in Marvelous Times (2008) and other songs
