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and no, that's not the Brian Laira show theme.

That's a little snippet of some of the sounds from a new site-specific choral work

set at the Brooklyn Navy Yard this week called Port All.

That's P-O-R-T and then parentheses around the A-L, we'll explain.

Now, we're talking a lot about history this year

in our ongoing centennial series on the show

in which we examine the past hundred years

of all kinds of topics

and often how that history influences our lives today, right?

But in this last part of our show today,

we'll look at another approach to history,

this new immersive choral work

being performed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus in the Navy Yards Agarfish Building on Thursday, Friday,

and Saturday. And to talk more about this work, the parentheses in the title included,

and about what port parentheses all has to say about the Navy Yards past,

our future, and more.

We're joined by our old friend composer, musician, and storyteller, Chad Abramrod.

You probably know him best as the creator and former co-host of WNYC's Radio Lab,

but he's here today to talk about this new project as co-composer and librettist.

And he is joined by Diane Birken-Mennacher, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus founder and artistic director,

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