Lunar New Year

Celebrating the Year of the Horse, this performance is sure to sell out once again as audiences from across our communities come together to feast on a colorful presentation of Eastern and Western music and dance.

Artists
Carl St.Clair, conductor
Ron Banks, emcee
Xiangdong Kong, piano
Yang Liu, erhu
Dennis Kim, violin
Yaya Dance Academy, Yaya Zhang, artistic director
T.O.P. Awards Dancers 
OCMD Violin Studio of Wendy Castille
American Feel Young Chorus —  Sam Wei-Chi Sun, director
Pacific Chorale —  Robert Istad, artistic director

Program
HUANZHI LI: Spring Festival Overture
     Yaya Dance Academy
TBD: Erhu Solo
     Yang Liu, erhu
JIANG LIU: Echoes of the Earth A Musical Odyssey, Part II
Arr. Shizhe Wang            
     OCMD Violin Studio of Wendy Castille
DEBUSSY: Claire de lune
     Yaya Dance Academy
TCHAIKOVSKY:  Piano Concerto No. 1 
      Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso
       Xiangdong Kong, piano

 ~ INTERMISSION ~

LIU/SHIZHE WANG: My Homeland
TRADITIONAL IRISH: Suzhou River
     Arr. Shirunyu Liu
    American Feel Young Chorus and Pacific Chorale
     Lyrics Cheng Zhang/Yue Yin/Shridhar Solanki
     Orch. Elbert Liu                
JOHN WILLIAMS: "Finding Neverland" from Hook
     Yaya Dance Academy/T.O.P Awards Dancers
HAN-KI KIM: Spring of Hometown
     Dennis Kim, violin
ORFF: Carmina Burana
     O Fortuna
     Ecce gratum
     Tanz (dance piece)
     Blanziflor et Helena
     Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
      Yaya Dance Academy, AFYC, Pacific Chorale
SAMUEL WARD: "America the Beautiful"
     Arr. Greg Prechel            
     Lyricist Katherine Lee Bates
     American Feel Young Chorus and Pacific Chorale