Event Listing - Music
Fri Mar 14 - Sat Mar 15

Peninsula Symphony’s Chinese Spring Festival concert


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Date and Time
San Mateo Performing Arts Center
600 N Delaware St
San Mateo, CA 94401 map
district: San Mateo

Fri Mar 14 (8pm)
Sat Mar 15 (8pm)

Description
March 14, 8pm, San Mateo Performing Arts Center
March 15, 8pm, Flint Center/DeAnza College, Cupertino

These concerts will concert will present a vibrant array of traditional Chinese works for voice and instrument and will feature two dynamic South Bay musical ensembles, the Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra and Crystal Children’s Choir, plus several eminent Chinese soloists. The Peninsula Symphony highlights fascinating symphonic and choral music from China, as well as one of the greatest and most entertaining of the great masterworks, Stravinsky’s Firebird.

Also included in the evening’s selections is the Yellow River Concerto. This piece takes the listener on a journey through a boatman’s struggle against a violent storm in search of calm waters. The concert will culminate with the World Premiere of the celebrated Chinese-born composer, Gang Situ’s Leaving Bai-Di, based on a seventh century poem describing life along the Yangtze River.