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Lunar New Year 2024

Lunar New Year

with the Minnesota Orchestra

Sat Feb 17, 2024

Orchestra Hall

2 hours including intermission

The Minnesota Orchestra marks Lunar New Year, the Year of the Dragon, a two-week-long festival that encourages family and friends to gather together with a performance featuring music that honors family traditions and themes of unity and health.

农历新年音乐会 (read about the concert in Mandarin Chinese)

A Few Things to Know

  • Did you know: the timing of Lunar New Year changes every year because it is based on the lunar calendar, which typically falls about 20-50 days behind the Gregorian calendar.
  • For the third consecutive year, Principal Bassoon Fei Xie serves as the artistic consultant for the Lunar New Year celebration. Conductor Junping Qian will also lead the program for the third straight year.
  • In China, after it turns midnight on the first day of the Chinese New Year, people first give traditional greetings to their parents or the eldest members of their house, followed then by their siblings.

Explore the concert extras

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Program

  • LI

    Spring Festival Overture

  • KIM

    Dub-Sanjo

  • HSIAO

    The Angel from Formosa

  • VO

    Lullaby for a Country

  • J. STRAUSS, JR.

    Voices of Spring (Frühlingsstimmen) Waltz

  • XIE/HAN

    Flying Dragon and Dancing Phoenix

  • ZHANG/Han

    Welcome Spring

  • TRADITIONAL/Suzuki

    Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon

  • TANG

    Dance of the Golden Snake

Minnesota Orchestra

Junping Qian

conductor

Zhengang Xie

Jing Hu Master

Mei Hu

Yue Qin Master

Vân-Ánh Võ

vocals, đàn bâu and đàn tranh

Roz Tsai

host

Fei Xie

artistic consultant

Plan your visit

  • Pre-concert activities
  • Valet Parking
  • Pre-order Beverages
  • Directions & Parking
  • Helpful Tips

 

Video: Lunar New Year Traditions

  • Armless & Bariatric Chairs
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Noise-Cancelling Headphones
  • Service Animals
  • Wheelchair & Accessible Seating

Additional services are available upon request.

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