The BQE has been immortalized by the likes of Sufjan Stevens in his musical film about our favorite local highway.

Saturday, November 7 / 7:30 PM (early show)  $12 at the Bell House.

OSSO QUARTET
PLUS SUFJAN STEVENS' THE BQE

Osso and Sufjan Stevens' The BQE.  String quartet with a modernist pulse, members of the New York- and Berlin-based Osso have collaborated and performed with an array of artists and genres, including My Brightest Diamond, DM Stith, Jay-Z, Alice and Ravi Coltrane, The New Pornographers, The Polyphonic Spree, The National, Devotchka, Jens Lekman and Kanye West. Osso will be performing interpretations of Sufjan Stevens' electronica album Enjoy Your Rabbit–each song named for a year of the Chinese zodiac–recomposing computer keystrokes into rhythmic classical arrangements.

The performance is paired with a showing of Sufjan Stevens' new film, The BQE, a 40-minute symphonic and cinematic exploration of the infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of their Next Wave Festival in November 2007, the film tells a quintessentially American tale through an original film by Stevens and a live soundtrack.
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