Chinese New Year Concern
I am very exciting to tell you about the Chinese New Year Concert that held on Feb 2, 2013 in San Francisco Symphony Hall. This is a program concert that conducted by Mei-Ann Chen. I picked this concert because the program contains traditional Chinese Lion Dance, Spring Festival melody with children’s dance, Geoge Gao’s erhu solo, The Butterfly Lovers. Tyzen Hsiao’s The Angel from Formosa and my favorite music piece with singing Ali Mountain Evergreen. Geoge Gao’s erhu solo, The Butterfly Lovers. I feel so happy to join this event this year because since I came to U.S from China. This is my first time to spend holiday celebration in Davies Symphony Hall! Before the New Year Concern, the people are from difference cultural background that you can tell by looking at their faces. There are children’s wearing Chinese classical customs, cute and lovely. There are fortune tree hangs up red envelope, there is exciting drum sound, craft, and Chinese calligraphy giving this Concert more traditional celebration mood in the air. Along with the traditional lion dance, children’s warm dance of for welcoming the spring festival, I feel I really going to 2013 but not in 2012 now. After a pretty Asian lady’s announcement, the stage shows up Geoge Gao with his erhu instrument. Geoge Gao was playing erhu since he was six years old. He is a popular erhu player at present. He has been featured as a soloist in many Symphony Orchestras, Such as Toronto, Shanghai, Taiwan national Chinese Orchestra and National Arts Center Orchestra. His erhu performance had been recorded and made into many video clips posted on youtube, facebook, and other social media. Today, the audiences seem really expecting his live appearance on stage. Geoge Gao starts play with melody with a slow beat after the piano does an introduction. Erhu’s strings sound in Davis Symphony Hall catch all the audience’s attention immediately. The Butterfly Lovers is a story about two lovers can’t be together, and they