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After acclaimed South Korean cellist Bong-Ihn Koh ’08 finished performing Isang Yun’s cello concerto in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Friday night, a crowd of 30 girls surrounded his bus—but all they could do was wave good...
Koh’s visit to North Korea marked the first performance of a piece by Isang Yun, a Korean-German composer, by a joint group of North and South Korean musicians, and the first performance of Yun’s signature work—his cello concerto—in North Korea...
...Hong, the manager of the music business department at the Isang Yun Peace Foundation, wrote in an e-mail that the concert’s organizers invited Koh to perform Yun’s cello concerto because “Bong-Ihn’s playing Isang Yun’s music has the infinite possibility to contribute to the peace and reunification of North and South Korea...
Koh’s performance tends to be expressive. In concert, he often shuts his eyes and waves his body back and forth with the cello, as if embracing a lover...
...said that the cello concerto conveys the anguish Yun felt when he was tortured in a South Korean prison and exiled from his homeland...