US Orchestra to Play in NKorea
SEOUL, South Korea - The oldest U.S. orchestra is using the power of music to pierce North Korea’s isolation, playing a historic concert in the communist nation as the two countries struggle to resolve a protracted standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.The New York Philharmonic will be the most prominent American cultural group to travel to North Korea since the peninsula’s division after World War II. The orchestra departs Monday for the North following a tour of the greater China region, and will perform Tuesday evening at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater in a concert to be televised internationally and live inside the country.”Our hope is to bring this great music to as many people living there as possible, people who may not otherwise be exposed to such a performance, and touch their lives in the way that this music so often touches ours,” Philharmonic President Zarin Mehta said in a statement this week.
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