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Article: Vienna meets Dixieland in New Year's Eve concert; Lancaster Symphony Orchestra joined by Dukes of Dixieland on American Music Theatre stage
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- December 31, 2004
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Central Pennsylvania apparently had long supressed its need to
celebrate New Year's Eve Vienna style.
The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra's inaugural New Year's concert in
2002, with an emphasis on Vienna waltzes, drew about 1,000 people to
American Music Theatre. Last year, the crowd swelled to near the
theater's capacity of 1,600. As of 4 p.m. Thursday, only 120 tickets
remained for tonight's concert.
"That's a lot of people who aren't going to parties, or who may go
to parties and a musical event," said Stephen Gunzenhauser, artistic
director of the Lancaster Symphony. He's thrilled to have found a New
Year's niche for the orchestra.
"I"m trying to capture the essense (of Vienna)," ...