Photo by Liz Ligon

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.

This free concert featured works by Adams, Mahler, Copland and Weill, and the world premiere of KCO founder and music director Gary S. Fagin's new cantata "In Every Grain of Sand," which takes its title from words by Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring:

“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”

The event concluded, as KCO concerts in the Winter Garden always do, with a waltz under the palms.

Photo credits:

Header: Fadi Kheir