Celebrate Asia! concert tonight

January 22, 2010 at 4:55 PM | Virginia Wright

Tonight Carolyn Kuan, the conductor who we featured in our December 2008 Seattle issue, will be guest conducting the Seattle Symphony at a special Celebrate Asia! concert at Benaroya Hall. The concert begins at 7:30pm, but there will be pre-concert activites, including a Chinese Lion Dance at 6:30pm. Following the concert, at 9:00pm, there will be a performance of Japanese Taiko drumming.

The concert program consists of: Mendelssohn: Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61, Li Bo: The Tale of Matou Qin, Franz von Suppe: Overture to Light Cavalry, Traditional: “Arirang,” Bizet: Excerpts from Carmen, Gang Chen / Zhanhao He: The Butterfly Lovers Concerto