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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...
...perform in Pyongyang with the South Korean conductor Chung Myung-Whun, who will also not be participating, wrote in an e-mail that he is "utterly disappointed" that he will not be performing in the concert commemorating the 89th birthday of the late Korean composer, Isang Yun...
...concert, scheduled for Oct. 20, would have been the first joint tribute to Yun by the two Koreas...
...event itself is taking place, but the South Korean performers will not be participating this time," said an official of the Isang Yun Peace Foundation in Seoul—the South Korean organization planning the concert with the North—in a phone interview with The Crimson. The official asked not to be named because of the sensitive nature of the situation...
Both his performance and choice of repertoire caught the attention of Yun’s widow as well as Siegfried Palm, the cellist for whom the concerto was originally written. Sooja Yun, who currently resides in North Korea, was so impressed that she personally recommended that Koh be the soloist in the upcoming festival...