BEIJING, Dec. 28 -- A harmonious way to ring in 2008 is to attend the New Year's concert at the 10,000-seat Great Hall of the People under the baton of conductor Zubin Mehta. The world-famous conductor is known for four New Year's concerts in Vienna. But Mehta is no stranger to China, having visited the country six times.

Leading the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, he will open the show with a score called Olympic Fanfare to mark the start of the year of the Olympic Games in Beijing. Other works would include Anton Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 From the New World, Johann Strauss II's Where Lemon Trees Bloom and Edward Strauss's Ohne Bremse Polka Schnell Op. 238, organizers say.