The Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, led by Music Director Urs Leonhardt Steiner, presents Sent-Down Youth: An Intercultural Exchange. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of China's "sent-down youth" movement, the program will showcase a rare performance of Ask the Sky and the Earth, a classical oratorio-cantata for orchestra, chorus and solo voices, by Chinese composer Tony Fok and librettist Wei Su, that reflects upon one of the largest cultural experiments in human history. Also featured on the program is the World Premiere of Remembering for Atonement by Bay Area composer Michael Kimbell and Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral).
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The Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, led by Music Director Urs Leonhardt Steiner, presents Sent-Down Youth: An Intercultural Exchange. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of China's "sent-down youth" movement, the program will showcase a rare performance of Ask the Sky and the Earth, a classical oratorio-cantata for orchestra, chorus and solo voices, by Chinese composer Tony Fok and librettist Wei Su, that reflects upon one of the largest cultural experiments in human history. Also featured on the program is the World Premiere of Remembering for Atonement by Bay Area composer Michael Kimbell and Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral).
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