Gary S. Fagin, Music Director
The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra
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What We Do
○ PERFORM CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL MUSIC IN HISTORIC LOWER MANHATTAN
○ OFFER INTERACTIVE, EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAMS
○ PROVIDE CLASSICAL MUSIC ENSEMBLES FOR DOWNTOWN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EVENTS
The Old Stone House, 336 Third Street Brooklyn
The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, in association with the Old Stone House in Brooklyn, is proud to present a reprise performance of “A Distant Love: Songs of John and Abigail Adams,” libretto by Terry Quinn, music by Gary S. Fagin, celebrating one of the most consequential and influential couples of the Colonial period during a time when our Nation’s fortunes hung in precarious balance.
South Street Seaport, Thompson Warehouse Building
“A Distant Love – Songs of John and Abigail Adams,” libretto by Terry Quinn, music by Gary S. Fagin, is based on the David McCullough biography of John Adams and the letters between John and Abigail Adams.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
“Charlotte: Life? or Theater?,” book and lyrics by Elise Thoron, music by Gary S. Fagin, is a one-act music-theater piece based on the life and paintings of Charlotte Salomon, the German-Jewish painter who created an astonishing visual record of her life in Berlin and France in the 1930s and 1940s, and who lost her life in Auschwitz in 1943.
Battery Maritime Building
This KCO performance will mark the 250th anniversary year - the semiquincentennial - of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Featured will be a world premiere by Gary S. Fagin, “Each and All,” drawing on texts about democracy by Plato, Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Longfellow, Walt Whitman, and Abraham Lincoln.
News from the KCO
The full Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra sent soaring music into the majestic Winter Garden at Brookfield Place in this musical appreciation of the beauty of nature. "Music of Our Sphere" refers to Pythagoras's theory that celestial bodies make music as they move through the heavens.
Belinda Whitney has been Concertmaster of the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra since the Orchestra’s founding.
The KCO was honored to have former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara join us on stage at the Feb. 10, 2018 Renaissance & Renewal concert. A few days later, Mr. Bharara reflected on his performance with the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra at the conclusion of his weekly podcast Stay Tuned With Preet.
