The Sound of Spring: A Chinese New Year Concert with The Orchestra Now

Celebrate two holidays in one! On Valentine’s Day weekend, bring your loved ones and welcome the Year of the Horse at the 7th annual The Sound of Spring Chinese New Year concert. The Orchestra Now and conductor Jindong Cai perform a program in praise of love and horses — filling the Rose Theater with joyful Chinese and Western symphonic music for the whole family.

Special guest soloists include winds virtuoso Yazhi Guo, plus a selection of outstanding young performers with top international accolades from the legendary Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the groundbreaking US-China Music Institute at Bard College.

Be sure to arrive up to one hour before curtain for the ever-popular Chinese instrument demonstration and Chinese New Year activities, courtesy of the US-China Music Institute.

Learn more about this program at barduschinamusic.org/events/spring26

Program

Spring Festival Overture
Li Huanzhi (1919–2000)

Cloud and Blossom concerto for pipa and orchestra (Excerpts)
Wang Danhong (b. 1985)
      Xiaoyan Zoey Luo, pipa

Concertino for Horn and Orchestra in E minor, Op.45
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
      Jin Zhicheng, French horn

The Sun Shines on Tashkurgan
Chen Gang  (b. 1935)
      Luo Chaowen, violin

Polonaise de concert in D Major, Op. 4
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
      Luo Chaowen, violin

Intermission

“Ride of the Valkyries” from Die Walküre
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

A Grand Victory Shanxi folk music for winds and percussion
Traditional; arr. Zhang Shiye; orchestra arr. Lin Miaoling
      Yazhi Guo and Hiu Man Chan, suona

Light Cavalry Overture
Franz von Suppé (1819-1895)

Xu Beihong Capriccio
Huang Anlun (b. 1949)