Category: Arts

At KO, 70% of students visit Paraguay as part of the Team Tobati community service trip. Most students document their trip using cellphone cameras or digital cameras, but senior Taline Norsigian decided to raise the bar and experiment with a film camera. She tried out both black and white and colored film in her 35mm […]

The most overwhelmingly beautiful moments music teacher Richard Chiarappa has experienced have been standing atop the rostrum, waving his baton excitedly through the air. When asked what he envisions while conducting and playing music, he immediately begins to express the feeling of the sounds in his heartbeat, so peaceful and moving. “When you are standing […]

The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Contest takes place every year in which both Upper and Middle School students can participate. Any student can take part in the contest by submitting up to three poems. Three student poems will be selected from the Upper School as winners and three students from the Middle School. Each winner receives […]

Mark Kravetz is not a fame-seeker. Some at KO  might not even recognize this name, and if you go to the KO News website and type in his name, the only time it appears is in the third paragraph in an article on the fall play. So who is Mark Kravetz? Well, according to him, […]

“Honestly, at first, I was kind of nervous, but then in my mind, I was thinking ‘It’s just another concert.” This is how junior Rohan Naik described his experience on stage at one of the most prestigious venues for music, Carnegie Hall. However, for Rohan, performing at Carnegie Hall was the rewarding result of considerable […]

On the evening of Friday, May 17, students, family, friends, and faculty gathered together in Black Box Theatre to enjoy a comfy and entertaining night full of singing, acting, and fun: the One Act was directed by senior Janvi Sikand while the Cabaret was led by seniors Olivia Coxon, Charlie Coxon, Emma Kate Johansen, Katherine […]

The Portfolio Prep art class, taught by creative arts teachers Scott McDonald and Greg Scranton, allows form five and six students the freedom to pursue different mediums of art. In addition, all of the finished pieces from the year are documented so they can be sent to colleges. Over the past five years, the class […]

On Tuesday, March 5, the English 4 Honors students performed their adaptations of “Macbeth” in the Black Box Theatre. This is the first time that English teachers Catherine Schieffelin and William Martino ave organized this project. The inspiration came from a previous school Ms. Schieffelin once taught at, where all the seniors would read “Hamlet” […]