On Saturday night, February 10, the Winter Garden was filled long before the musicians took the stage. The audience came to see Elizabeth Pitcairnplay her Red Violin, a Stradivarius from 1720; they came to applaud Preet Bharara, the former District Attorney for the Southern District of New York as he spoke the stirring words of Abraham Lincoln in Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait;” but most of all they came to celebrate ten years of music from Lower Manhattan’s own Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra.
Marking the start of the KCO’s tenth anniversary season, founder and conductor Gary Fagin welcomed the crowd and spoke of coming full circle back to Winter Garden, where the inaugural concert had taken place. Just as he did at the end of that very first concert, Mr. Fagin invited the audience to rise and waltz under the palms for the concluding musical piece of the concert, the world premiere of Mr. Fagin’s Winter Garden Waltzes.
Next up in the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra’s tenth anniversary season: Kurt Weill’s “Zaubernacht (Magic Night)” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on March 14 and 15 at 7pm and on March 18 at 2pm.
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Preet Bharara reading the words of Lincoln
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