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Bong Ihn Koh ’08, a Cabot House resident from South Korea and a gifted cellist, was to make a journey next week to North Korea to perform in the Isang Yun World Peace concert, an event that would have brought together musicians from North and South Korea. But due to recent tensions generated by reports of a North Korean nuclear test last Monday, Koh will no longer be participating...
Nearly 40 years ago, as a consequence of traveling to North Korea, composer Isang Yun was forced to leave his homeland of South Korea and go into exile in Germany. More than 30 years later, cellist Bong Ihn Koh ’08 would also live in South Korea and Berlin, discovering Yun’s music along...
...will make the journey that proved fateful for Yun, traveling to Pyongyang to perform Yun’s “Cello Concerto” as part of a festival honoring the composer, who died in 1995. The Isang Yun World Peace Concert, a rare event that brings together musicians from both North and South Korea, is a joint effort between the South’s Isang Yun Peace Foundation and the North’s Yun I Sang Music Institute. Koh will perform with the Isang Yun Orchestra and renowned Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Chung Myung-Whun...
...Isang says he chose a liberal arts college over a music conservatory deliberately. "I was sort of bored with the whole idea of a conservatory. All the people are competing with one another, whereas here, everyone is here to help each other." Besides, he adds. "It always helps to have a well founded education. In case something happens to my fingers, I have a backup...
...important as his finger are to him, music is more important, says Isang, adding. "I think I could nver live without it. Whether it's rock or classical...