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Carnegie Hall Presents

Beijing Youth Orchestra

Sunday, August 4, 2024 4 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Lü Jia by China NCPA Orchestra, Wu Man by Wind Music
This Sunday matinee concert—presented as part of Carnegie Hall’s World Orchestra Week (WOW!)—features the Beijing Youth Orchestra, an ensemble newly created by China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). Lü Jia, who has performed at Carnegie Hall as conductor of the renowned China NCPA Orchestra, leads this exceptional youth orchestra and the inimitable pipa virtuoso Wu Man in a program that includes both Western and Chinese orchestral works.

Part of: World Orchestra Week

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Performers

Beijing Youth Orchestra
Lü Jia, Conductor
Wu Man, Pipa

Program

BAO YUANKAI Selections from Chinese Sights and Sounds
- Happiness at Sunrise
- Bamboo-flute Tune
- Antiphonal Flower Song

ZHAO JIPING Pipa Concerto No. 2 (NY Premiere)

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

Lead Donors: Hope and Robert F. Smith, Michael ByungJu Kim and Kyung Ah Park.

Major funding has been provided by Ronald E. Blaylock and Petra Pope.

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