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Sufjan Stevens presents The BQE, a film and musical suite exploring New York Citys infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Sufjan Stevens presents The BQE, a film and musical suite exploring New York Citys infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, at The Brooklyn Academy Of Musics Next Wave Festival in November 2007. The critically applauded performance featured 36 performers including a band, a wind and brass ensemble, string players, a horn section, projected film footage of the expressway and five hula hoopers.
The BQE is available as a double-disc format (CD/DVD), which includes the original 16mm/8mm film (in widescreen triptych display), the original motion picture soundtrack, a 40-page booklet (with extensive liner notes and photographs), and a stereoscopic image reel (playable in all Viewmaster viewers).
The limited edition vinyl (1000 copies) is available as a double gatefold and includes the soundtrack on 180-gram vinyl, a large-scale 32-page booklet with liner notes and photographs, and a black and white version of the 40-page Hooper Heroes comic book.
[The BQE] uses swirling, glimmering Romantic orchestration (by way of soundtracks and 1950s pop) to make [Stevens] private ruminations more quizzical and more alluring at the same time The New York Times;
Stevens film and score managed to turn the city into an object of such joy it felt like an honor to be from the place Artslant.
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