Brooklyn Village

For its second major concert event under Alan Pierson, the Brooklyn Philharmonic teams up with the vivacious voices of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. They'll construct a multimedia portrait of Brooklyn’s evolution from riverside village to booming industrial metropolis to the arty center of millennial New York. Broadway veteran Ted Sperling, the event’s stage director, weaves a rich tapestry out of world premieres by Brooklynphile composers David T. Little, Matthew Mehlan and Sarah Kirkland Snider; music by 19th-century Brooklyn native George Frederick Bristow, Copland, Beethoven and folk-pop superstar Sufjan Stevens; and an overarching libretto from postclassical collaborator Royce Vavrek.