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...York Philharmonic (NYP) concert last February at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre - a recording of which has just been released on DVD by Medici Arts - began with a welcome from a comely young North Korean woman in traditional dress. She expressed the hope that the performance would "herald the first step in rapprochement between the two countries," just before the esteemed orchestra entered the stately 2,500-seat auditorium...
...established until 1979. Even if you watch the NYP's Pyongyang adventure in slo-mo, you won't spot Kim Jong Il making nuclear concessions in a balcony suite while seduced by the universal language of music (he didn't attend). But at least you will see, at the concert's close, rows of North Koreans quietly moved by a poignant rendition of Arirang, the Korean folk tune beloved on both sides of the DMZ, and a touching song whose harps and violins are borderless. Perhaps rapprochement can start from there...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON to host Nobel Prize concert. Finally, she'll be the most attractive person in the room...
Yannatos took over as music director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in the fall of 1964. He vividly recalls his first concert with...
...very exciting. We did the Berlioz Overture, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, and the Bertoz Concerto for Orchestra that had just been written 20 years ago,” he says. “I didn’t think anything of the concert, but everyone else thought, ‘Wow.’ Everybody was blown away, and I guess, basically my job was assured...