Gary S. Fagin

April 10, 2026

Battery Maritime Building

This KCO performance marked the 250th anniversary year - the semiquincentennial - of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, featuring the world premiere of “Each and All” by Gary S. Fagin, drawing on texts about democracy by Plato, Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Longfellow, Walt Whitman, and Abraham Lincoln. Also on the program works by Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and Ricky Ian Gordon.

May 31, 2026

Museum of Jewish Heritage

“Charlotte: Life? or Theater?,” book and lyrics by Elise Thoron, music by Gary S. Fagin, 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.

June 30, 2026, South Street Seaport Museum

July 24, 2026, The Old Stone House, Brooklyn

The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, in association with The South Street Seaport Museum and The Old Stone House, Brooklyn, presents “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. Featuring soprano Elizabeth Dabey and baritone Thomas Megloranza.

Winter Garden at Brookfield Place
Presented by Arts Brookfield, the "Renaissance & Renewal" concert celebrates the rebirth of Lower Manhattan since the KCO’s first concert in the Winter Garden ten years ago.

Program:
Copland: Fanfare For The Common Man
Vaughan Williams: A Lark Ascending
Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
     Elizabeth Pitcairn, violin
Fagin: Proclamation At A Birth
Copland: Lincoln Portrait

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Central Bucks High School East
2804 HOLICONG RD
DOYLESTOWN, PA 18902

Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
    Tomer Gewirtzman, piano
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Museum of Jewish Heritage
Weill: Zaubernacht

An enchanting work about children whose toys come to life as they dream, Zaubernacht is Kurt Weill's first work for the stage, published in 1922. This production by the KCO at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park City will be the first since Weill's long-lost, original orchestration for Zaubernacht was rediscovered.

Special Sunday performance with Jody Oberfelder Projects

March 14, 15, 18, 2018
 

DelVal Student Activities Center
St. Patrick’s Day Pops Concert

Robert White, tenor

Delaware Valley University
Student Center Auditorium
700 East Butler Avenue
Doylestown, PA 18901

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Central Bucks High School South
1100 FOLLY ROAD
WARRINGTON, PA 18976

Borodin: Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor
Korngold: Violin Concerto
Simone Porter, violin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Saturday, April 28, 2018 8:00pm

Michael Schimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Fagin: The Struggle To Forgive (world premiere)
Guns, a documentary film by Nick Davis (world premiere)

n this world premiere of a new musical dramatic work by Gary S. Fagin, the KCO will give voice, hauntingly, to those most affected by the gun epidemic in America: victims of gun violence and their families. 

May 4, 2018 7:30pm  8:30pm

Time: 7:00pm
Location: Hudson River Park's Pier 45 (cross at Christopher Street)

Time: 8:00 PM

Anton Dvorak: The Water Goblin
Launy Grøndahl: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra
Duke Ellington/arr. Gary Fagin: Rose of the Rio Grande
Brittany Lasch, trombone
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in Bb

Time: 3:00 PM

Dmitri Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto, Mvt. I
Anya Chan, Youth Concerto Competition Winner
Mary Lynn Lightfoot: Festival Fanfare
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Rodgers & Hammerstein/arr. Mark Brymer: Medley from The Sound of Music
Holicong Middle School Robe Choir, James Glaser, Director

Time: 5:30pm

Tango-Waltz-Foxtrot!

Kick up your heels with Gary S.Fagin and the KCO for “Sweet Sounds of Summer!"—a stylish selection of classical melodies for your dancing pleasure, including foxtrots, tangos and waltzes. Or just sit back and enjoy the timeless tunes of Johann Strauss, Irving Berlin and other great song and dance masters!