When: Thu, November 12, 2009 at 8pm
Where: State Theatre
Tickets: $32-67

Long Yu, conductor
Yuja Wang, pianist

“The arrival of Chinese-born pianist Yuja Wang on the musical scene is an exhilarating and unnerving development. To listen to her in action is to re-examine whatever assumptions you may have had about how well the piano can actually be played.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO) is the earliest and the best-known ensemble of its kind in Asia, through which Chinese symphonic music has developed. Formed in 1879 as the Shanghai Public Band, it developed into an orchestra in 1907, and was renamed the Shanghai Municipal Council Symphony Orchestra in 1922. Notably under the baton of the Italian conductor Mario Paci, the orchestra promoted Western music and trained young Chinese talents in this style. It introduced the first Chinese orchestral work to Asian audiences and has been reputed as the “the best in the Far East.”

*Poetic pseudonym or imaginary figure, Iris was (in the 17th and 18th centuries) the name of a mysterious woman to whom a poem was dedicated. Iris Devoilee includes 3 sopranos (Peking Opera style) and 3 traditional Chinese instruments, the Pipa, Erhu, and Zheng.

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