NICO MUHLY for the BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS
NICO MUHLY, SAM AMIDON, BRYCE DESSENER and BISHI
Tell The Way is a commissioned collaborative work created for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus (Dianne Berkun, Artistic Director) by BMP’s long-term collaborator, composer Nico Muhly. Loosely based on medieval and colonial English travel narratives, the work draws from American folk sources, prayers for the Royal Navy, early colonial diaries, Mandeville, Herodotus and Marco Polo. Nico Muhly’s music is propulsive travel-music, but at the heart of Tell The Way are three meditative collaborations between Muhly and Bishi, Muhly and Bryce Dessner and Muhly and Sam Amidon. ACME, an ensemble of strings, percussion, trombone, and flute augment the voices of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Bryce’s guitar, Sam’s banjo and fiddle, and Bishi’s sitar.
Tell the Way was commissioned and developed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus with funds from Meet the Composer and the Educational Foundation of America.
Commissioned and developed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus with funds from Meet the Composer and the Educational Foundation of America. World premiere presented by St. Ann’s Warehouse and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Co-produced by Beth Morrison Projects.
