2010-2011 Season
Stravinsky's
The Soldier's Tale
(L'histoire du soldat)
June 9, 10 & 11, 2011
Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
3 Spruce Street, New York City
The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra concluded its third season with an energetic production of Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale (L'histoire du soldat)," in collaboration with Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects. Performed June 9, 10 and 11 at Pace University's Schimmel Center for the Arts, The Soldier's Tale drew hundreds of dance and music fans each night, as well as unprecedented critical interest and appreciation.
At right, KCO Founder and Music Director Gary Fagin conducts. Click here for a preview feature story entitled "Stravinsky's Devil, Reignited" in The New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure section of June 3. Prior to the production, the Huffington Post featured the show, as did numerous local publications and citywide blogs. Thrilled by the enthusiastic response, KCO and JODP are hoping to mount future productions of The Soldier's Tale. If you have input about possible venues for the production, please contact the KCO at info@knickerbocker-orchestra.org.
Photos by Paula Court.
January 15, 2011
World Financial Center Winter Garden
The power and the spirit of New York City were celebrated when the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra was joined by visionary performer Rinde Eckert ("iconoclastic, category-smashing, ...riveting," Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times) portraying master builder Robert Moses in excerpts from KCO Music Director Gary S. Fagin's new composition, "Robert Moses Astride New York."
The Brooklyn Youth Chorus ("...a polished ensemble of miniature professionals," Steve Smith, The New York Times) came on stage to sing the music of Bob Dylan, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers and James Taylor in celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
The performance also included "Twelfth Street Rag" by Euday L. Bowman and "Bethena" by Scott Joplin, "Putnam's Camp" by Charles Ives and "Quiet City" by Aaron Copland. The performance concluded with what has become the KCO's customary finale to its Winter Garden performances: a public dance. For the audience's pleasure on this evening, the KCO played The Carousel Waltz.
