| On June 10, Gary Fagin, longtime Seaport resident and founder/music director of Lower Manhattan’s Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra (KCO), hosted the organization’s last event of the 2015/2016 season: the Hurrah for the Harbor soirée in the Melville Gallery of the South Street Seaport Museum.
The program honored local parks and 100 years of the National Park Service, and Joshua Laird, commissioner of the National Parks of New York Harbor spoke briefly to the audience.
The musicians also performed songs with a nautical theme composed by Charles Ives in honor of the late Peter Stanford, who insisted on the preservation of the old Seaport district and, with his wife Norma, founded the Seaport Museum.
Click here to see the KCO musicians perform The Sycamore, a concert rag composed by Scott Joplin in 1904. |
