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June 19, 2022: Good Trouble: A Juneteenth Tribute Concert
June 19, 2022, 3:00 P.M. – 5 P.M.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
$10 Suggested Donation
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra for a special concert on Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the United States.
Presenting music that celebrates the Black experience, the featured work will be the world premiere of KCO Music Director Gary S. Fagin‘s Good Trouble, inspired by the late Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. The Good Trouble libretto pays tribute to Representative Lewis, and also includes texts by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, James Baldwin, and Barbara Jordan.
This program is made possible in part by support from the Battery Park City Authority and the Frances Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts.
The audience can register to be present in person or see the concert live online.
Saturday, April 22, 2023: Music of Our Sphere Concert
Saturday, April 22, 2023
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Winter Garden at Brookfield Place
Rescheduled to Saturday, April 22, 2023, Earth Day
The full Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra will send 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 will feature works by Vivaldi, 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 will conclude, as KCO concerts in the Winter Garden always do, with a waltz under the palms.