San Francisco Symphony Celebrates Chinese New Year

San Francisco Symphony presents Chinese New Year Virtual Celebration: Year of the Ox

Concert will focus on themes that coordinate with the Year of the Ox — prosperity, unity, and growth.

The free event will be released on Feb. 20 on its website: http://sfsymphonyplus.org, also broadcasting locally in the Bay Area on NBC Bay Area at 4 p.m. on Feb. 20.

Works featured on the program include:

Chen Yi’s Romance of Hsiao and Ch’in from Romance and Dance

Zhou Long’s Chinese Folk Songs

Julian Yu’s Flower Riddle and Dry Boat Dance

Yao-Xing Chen’s Gallop of Warhorses

Yuan-Kai Bao’s Little Cabbage

Wenying Wu’s arrangement of the traditional tune Tajiks Festival

 

Performances will feature

conductor Ming Luke

Bay Area erhu player Tao Shi

yangqin player Wenying Wu

pianist Samantha Cho

members of the San Francisco Symphony.