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February 25, 2008

NY Philharmonic lands in North Korea for Tuesday concert...

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The New York Philharmonic Orchestra arrived in North Korea Monday to perform a historic concert in the secretive communist nation’s capital.

When the tour was announced in December, orchestra president and executive director Zarin Mehta billed it as “a manifestation of the power of music to unite people.”

Tuesday’s concert in Pyongyang is part of an extended Asian concert series that has already taken the orchestra to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. The orchestra will perform in South Korea on Thursday.

In December, the orchestra’s chairman, Paul Guenther, said he hopes that “the music of the Philharmonic, can, in some way, serve as a catalyst for positive change.”

“The… concerts on the Korean Peninsula are unique—they grow out of the Philharmonic’s tradition of speaking on a world stage, on significant occasions, in the international language of music,” he said.



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