November 13, 2002 – A special concert of Orchestral Music Influenced by China and Japan will be held on Monday, December 9 at 8 p.m. at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville. Guest artist Wang Guowei will perform on the Chinese erhu, a two-stringed fiddle that is the principal bowed instrument in the modern Chinese orchestra.

The C.W. Post Orchestra will perform under the gifted leadership of conductor Susan Deaver and graduate assistant conductor George Glikos. C.W. Post Concerto winners Katie Stager and Lon Steven Stetz will perform on the flute and xylophone respectively.

The concert will include a performance of Saint-Saens: "Orient et Occident, Op. 25," a brief presentation on orchestral music influenced by China and Japan with short orchestral excerpts from Tchaikovsky: "Chinese Dance from the Nutcracker Suite" and Stravinsky: "The Song of the Nightingale;" a short demonstration of Chinese traditional instruments by Wang Guowei; Hovhaness: "Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints (Han-ga Genso), Op. 211" featuring Lon Steven Stetz, xylophone soloist as second place winner of the 2002 C.W. Post Concerto Competition; Tan Dun: "Song of Peace" from Symphony 1997 with a full orchestra, children’s chorus, and Chinese bells; Debussy: "Fêtes from Nocturnes" and "Butterfly Lovers (Gaohu Concerto)" with Wang Guowei as erhu soloist. In addition, the C.W. Post Chamber Orchestra will perform Ravel: "Laideronnette, empress of the pagodas" from Mother Goose Suite; Quantz: "Concerto for Flute & Strings (1st movement)" featuring Katie Stager, flute soloist as first place winner of the 2002 C.W. Post Concerto Competition.

The C.W. Post Orchestra recently participated in an Educational Residency at Tilles Center with members of the New York Philharmonic in which both the orchestral works by Debussy and Saint-Saens to be performed at the December 9 concert were coached and conducted by members of the New York Philharmonic.

The concert will take place at 8 p.m. on Monday, December 9, 2002 at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, 720 Northern Blvd. (Route 25A), Brookville. Tickets: general admission $6; students and seniors $4. For additional information call the C.W. Post Department of Music at (516) 299-2474 or the C.W. Post Orchestra Concert Information Line at (516) 299-3007.