Article: Vienna meets Dixieland in New Year's Eve concert; Lancaster Symphony Orchestra joined by Dukes of Dixieland on American Music Theatre stage

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)," ...

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