Ring In The New Year With The Legendary Doc Severinsen

Count down the clock with "The Doc" and Seattle Symphony at a very special New Year's Eve Concert on Sunday, Dec. 31, at 9:00 p.m. Experience the grandeur of Benaroya Hall in all its glory as Doc Severinsen leads the Symphony in performances of works by Johann Strauss, Jr., Duke Ellington, Tommy Newsom, George Gershwin, Giacomo Puccini and others.

Assistant conductor Carolyn Kuan will take the podium for a special performance of Herman Bellstedt's Napoli. Ticket-holders are also invited to a swinging post-concert party that will include dancing to a live band, party favors and a countdown to 2007.

Beginning in 1962, Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson ruled late-night TV for 30 years. Within a week of the final telecast, Doc Severinsen and His Big Band were on the road entertaining audiences with Ellington and Basie standards, pop and jazz songs, ballads, big band classics and, of course, The Tonight Show theme. A Grammy award winner, Severinsen has made more than 30 albums, from big band to jazz-fusion to classical. Today, he still has a flair for outrageous fashions and witty banter and is continually regarded as one of music's most technically proficient trumpeters.

Assistant conductor Carolyn Kuan was heralded in 2004 when, of her Kennedy Center debut with the National Symphony, The Washington Post noted, "It is exciting news when any young conductor makes a debut with a major ensemble."¦Kuan won her case." Kuan holds the distinction of being the first female to be awarded the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship in 2003, which resulted in her residency at the 2004 Salzburg Festival. She was named the first Taki Concordia Fellow in 2003 and has received awards from the Women's Philharmonic, Conductors Guild, Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship and Susan W. Rose Fund for Music. She joined Seattle Symphony as Douglas F. King Assistant Conductor in September 2006.

Special packages are available for New Year's Eve Concert & Gala: Bubbly & Brass that include a cocktail reception, pre-concert dinner, admission to the concert and dancing in the Samuel & Althea Stroum Grand Lobby. Gala tickets start at $350 per person. For more information or to make your reservation, contact Special Events at (206) 215-4834.

Single tickets for the concert, from $50 to $150, can be purchased by calling the Seattle Symphony Ticket Office at (206) 215-4747 or toll-free at (866) 833-4747, faxing the Symphony at (206) 215-4748, ordering online at www.seattlesymphony.org with the "Select-Your-Own-Seat" option, or visiting the Seattle Symphony Ticket Office in Benaroya Hall at Third Avenue & Union Street, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 1 to 6 p.m.

Subscriptions are still available for Seattle Symphony performances. For group sales information, call (206) 215-4784. Student and senior rush discount tickets, subject to availability, go on sale in person at the Seattle Symphony Ticket Office at 6:30 p.m. prior to evening performances and two hours prior to afternoon performances.

By www.seattlesymphony.org
Assistant conductor Carolyn Kuan will take the podium for a special performance of Herman Bellstedt's Napoli. Ticket-holders are also invited to a swinging post-concert party that will include dancing to a live band, party favors and a countdown to 2007.

Beginning in 1962, Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson ruled late-night TV for 30 years. Within a week of the final telecast, Doc Severinsen and His Big Band were on the road entertaining audiences with Ellington and Basie standards, pop and jazz songs, ballads, big band classics and, of course, The Tonight Show theme. A Grammy award winner, Severinsen has made more than 30 albums, from big band to jazz-fusion to classical. Today, he still has a flair for outrageous fashions and witty banter and is continually regarded as one of music's most technically proficient trumpeters.

Assistant conductor Carolyn Kuan was heralded in 2004 when, of her Kennedy Center debut with the National Symphony, The Washington Post noted, "It is exciting news when any young conductor makes a debut with a major ensemble."¦Kuan won her case." Kuan holds the distinction of being the first female to be awarded the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship in 2003, which resulted in her residency at the 2004 Salzburg Festival. She was named the first Taki Concordia Fellow in 2003 and has received awards from the Women's Philharmonic, Conductors Guild, Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship and Susan W. Rose Fund for Music. She joined Seattle Symphony as Douglas F. King Assistant Conductor in September 2006.

Special packages are available for New Year's Eve Concert & Gala: Bubbly & Brass that include a cocktail reception, pre-concert dinner, admission to the concert and dancing in the Samuel & Althea Stroum Grand Lobby. Gala tickets start at $350 per person. For more information or to make your reservation, contact Special Events at (206) 215-4834.

Single tickets for the concert, from $50 to $150, can be purchased by calling the Seattle Symphony Ticket Office at (206) 215-4747 or toll-free at (866) 833-4747, faxing the Symphony at (206) 215-4748, ordering online at www.seattlesymphony.org with the "Select-Your-Own-Seat" option, or visiting the Seattle Symphony Ticket Office in Benaroya Hall at Third Avenue & Union Street, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 1 to 6 p.m.

Subscriptions are still available for Seattle Symphony performances. For group sales information, call (206) 215-4784. Student and senior rush discount tickets, subject to availability, go on sale in person at the Seattle Symphony Ticket Office at 6:30 p.m. prior to evening performances and two hours prior to afternoon performances.

By www.seattlesymphony.org