The Sight of Music in North Korea
This blog is supposed to be about photography, but the topic of this post is basically music. Well, there is...
This blog is supposed to be about photography, but the topic of this post is basically music. Well, there is a video angle, but it’s pretty tangential. Hope you’ll forgive me for stretching the boundaries a little. I got to watch the PBS presentation of the New York Philharmonic’s concert in North Korea the other night, and I was very moved by it. It wasn’t necessarily the politics surrounding the event that seem remarkable, but the music itself. I’ve heard Rhapsody in Blue a million times, but it sounded so powerful, so convincing. The highlight was the concert-ending performance of Arirang, the popular Korean folk song. The video of that is below. If you want to see a New York Time slide show (photos by Chang W. Lee) on the orchestra’s trip, go here.–David Schonauer
