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Meet the Arts
Experience high-quality youth and family programming for regional schools and families. Now in its 36th season!
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27th Biannual Stearns-Cottrell
Instrument Petting Zoo
The Crane School of Music, October 17, 2025, 9:00 am
Experience a wide-range of string, wind, brass, and percussion instruments in this long-running educational event.
This event runs again this season on March 20, 2026.
The Crane School of Music Opera Ensemble presents:
Down In the Valley
Proscenium Theater, October 30, 2025, 9:30 am
Explore themes of justice and the struggles of ordinary people in this 60-minute one-act play by Arnold
Sundgaard.
Doktor Kaboom: Under Pressure!
Proscenium Theater, March 4, 2026, 9:30 am & 11:00 am
Be amazed by the power of pressure - and what it can teach us.
There is an additional showing for the general public on Tuesday, March 3 at 7:00 pm.
The Crane School of Music Opera Ensemble presents:
Crane Spring Opera
Proscenium Theater, Spring 2026
More information about this event will be released once known.
28th Biannual Stearns-Cottrell
Instrument Petting Zoo
The Crane School of Music, March 20, 2026, 9:00 am
Experience a wide-range of string, wind, brass, and percussion instruments in this long-running educational event.
PAST PROJECTS AND EVENTS
Oceanophony
A collaborative project with the Orchestra of Northern New York, this performance of Bruce Adolphe's Oceanophony for narrator and chamber ensemble was recorded live for the children of St. Lawrence County.
Kenneth Andrews, conductor; Chip Lamson, narrator; John Lindsey, violin; Marie-Élaine Gagnon, cello; Emily Wood, bass; Brian Dunbar, flute; Julianne Doyle, clarinet; Carol Lowe, bassoon; Timothy Sullivan, percussion; Julie Miller, piano
February 2025 Instrument Petting Zoo
On February 28, 2025, CPS welcomed 146 students from three local school districts to the SUNY Potsdam campus for the Stearns-Cottrell Instrument Petting Zoo. With the guidance of music education students at the Crane School of Music, visiting students had the opportunity to try many wind, brass, string, and percussion instruments. The Zoo culminated with an hour-long concert showcasing these instruments on-stage.
Want to learn more? Check out this video from SUNY Potsdam and hear from students who planned and presented the Petting Zoo.