“Join us for Pacific Symphony’s annual festivities honoring Lunar New Year!

Celebrating the Year of the Snake, 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
Joyce Yang, piano
Bei Bei Monter, guzheng
Yang Liu, erhu
Chelsea Chaves, soprano
Tom Li, tenor
Lotus Bud Guzheng Academy
Verena Lo, cello
Yaya Dance Academy
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
HUIRAN WANG, Orch. Adam Giberti: Yi Dance
  Bei Bei Monter, Lotus Bud Guzheng Academy
SAUNDER CHOI: Blossom
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: "The Swan" from Carnival of the Animals
  Verena Lo, cello, Yaya Dance Academy
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
 Joyce Yang. piano
~ Intermission ~
Arr. Ying Tang: Happy Valley
  Yaya Dance Academy
 JIANG LIU, Arr. Shizhe Wang: Echoes of the Earth: A Musical Odyssey
   Violin Studio of Wendy Castille
YAOXING CHEN: Galloping Horses
  Yang Liu
Arr. Ying Tang:  Red Coral
  Yaya Dance Academy
  American Feel Young Chorus
  Pacific Chorale
QIGANG CHEN Arr. David Dunford: You and Me
  Chelsea Chaves
  Tom Li
  American Feel Young Chorus
  Pacific Chorale
JOHN WILLIAMS: "Exsultate Justi" from Empire of the Sun
   American Feel Young Chorus
   Pacific Chorale
LEONARD BERNSTEIN:  "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide
   American Feel Young Chorus
   Pacific Chorale
 SAMUEL WARD Arr. Greg Prechel, Lyricist Katherine Lee Bates: "America the Beautiful"
   American Feel Young Chorus
   Pacific Chorale

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Connor Licharz sings as a member of Pacific Chorale