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New Jersey Festival Orchestra May 22
May 22, 2016, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
$13 – $75
XIAN Yellow River Cantata
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 “Choral”
David Wroe Music Director and Conductor
Shuang Guo Conductor
International guest soloists
Chinese American Music Ensemble
Haiyun Chorus
New Jersey Festival Orchestra
The season concludes with two monumental masterpieces featuring Chinese choirs from New York and New Jersey. Xian’s Yellow River Cantata, with its famous “Ode to the Yellow River,” is the undisputed champion of choral work in China, commemorating the seismic revolutionary events of the country’s recent history. Symphony No. 9 with the awe-inspiring “Ode to Joy” chorus also presents Beethoven at his most revolutionary, most uplifting and most beloved. Musical solidarity, humanism and heroism heralding from opposite ends of the earth.
Tickets $75 | $60 | $48 | $26 | students $13