Word: yun
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...three-day event—a joint venture between South Korea’s Isang Yun Peace Foundation and North Korea’s National Isang Yun Institute—will include the first-ever performance of a piece by Isang Yun by both North and South Korean musicians together...
...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...
...said that the cello concerto conveys the anguish Yun felt when he was tortured in a South Korean prison and exiled from his homeland...
...solo cellist represents [Yun] as a person, and the orchestra represents the world that he lives in,” Koh said. “If you listen to the orchestra, there is a lot going on, and it’s just really frantic and chaotic, and I think that’s how he saw the world at the time...
During his lifetime, Yun sought to reunify the two Koreas through music. Koh said his own dream is to perform someday at a ceremony celebrating the reunification of the two Koreas...