Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Barbra together? Thank BP Markowitz!
The Grammy-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus, which has performed with Lou Reed, Elton John, The New York Philharmonic, Grizzly Bear, Ray Davies and other music luminaries, will soon perform with Barbra Streisand – thanks, in part, to Borough President Marty Markowitz.
The chorus will be performing with Streisand on Oct. 8 at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center and, in her first-ever public performances in Brooklyn, on Oct. 11 and 13 at the new Barclays Center.
A spokesperson for the chorus said that it remains to be seen what songs the chorus will perform with Streisand. “That’s part of the surprise,” he said. He also said that it was initially Markowitz who arrange for them to perform with Streisand, who grew up in the Vanderveer housing complex in Flatbush and went to Erasmus Hall High School.