THE PYONGYANG CONCERT

Live in HD Broadcast

Sunday, Jan 22, 2:00 pm
Saturday, Jan 28, 2:00 pm

Lorin Maazel conductor

The New York Philharmonic performs an historic concert in North Korea. Music became diplomacy when conductor Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic, opened the concert in East Pyongyangs Grand Theatre with both the American and the North Korean national anthems. The program includes music by Wagner, Dvořk, Gershwin, Bizet and Bernstein. This courageous musical project also united Korean and American musicians, who, together, produced a technically brilliant performance. The musicians barely spoke to one another, communicating in exchanged glances and body language, and when Lorin Maazel raised his baton at the end of the concert and the orchestra embarked on Arirang, a lilting folk song emblematic of the North and South Korean people, the audience was obviously touched. Many concerns and doubts arose before departing to the most inaccessible country in the world. However, music knows no borders and can touch hearts and unite people everywhere this concert provides impressive proof.

Running Time: approx. 115 minutes

REPERTOIRE: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act III Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No.9 in E minor "From the New World George Gershwin: An American in Paris George Bizet: Farandole from L'Arlesienne Suite No.2 Leonard Bernstein: Candide, Ouverture Traditional: Arirang.

Tickets: $17 General, $7 Students, $2 off for Lincoln Theatre Members