Youth Outreach
We invite you to help support our mission to bring classical music into our neighborhood schools. Our goal is to teach children to appreciate the beauty of classical music, and perhaps reawaken their parents’ connections to classical music, as well.
"I just came from the faculty room where faculty were talking about how great the assembly was -- how accessible you made it for the students. It was a treat to hear such amazing musicians play such beautiful music in the middle of the school day!"
- Grace Church School Choral Director Elizabeth Abrams
Our presentations are generally 45-60 minutes in length and consist of performances by elite professional musicians and internationally known soloists interspersed with anecdotes and entertaining talks on music history and theory. Corporations and individuals who wish to know more about funding the KCO Youth Outreach Program please contact KCO Music Director Gary S. Fagin at info@knickerbocker-orchestra.org for levels of support.
To download a document describing Sample Programs, click here. School administrators and music directors may contact KCO Music Director Gary S. Fagin at info@knickerbocker-orchestra.org to schedule a presentation.
Previous school visits by the KCO
Grace Church School and PS 89 – April 2010
With a quintet of KCO musicians looking on, music director Gary S. Fagin and his student assistant use a jump rope to demonstrate how a string vibrates.
PS/IS 89 - January 2010
KCO french hornist David Wakefield, using a flexible horn (aka garden hose and funnel!), demonstrates how long a french horn would be if unravelled.
Grace Church School -- October 2009
KCO string quartet with KCO music director Gary S. Fagin.
PS 234 and Claremont Prep -- May 2009
Spanish clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester, with pianist Roman Rabinovich
and KCO music director Gary S. Fagin.
Stuyvesant High School, PS/IS 89 and Grace Church School – January 2009
Internationally known violin soloist Elizabeth Pitcairn and her Red Violin,
with pianist John Novacek and KCO music director Gary S. Fagin.