All Entries Tagged With: "North Korea"
Why Arirang Made Me Cry
[also appears in Friday's Arts Blog @ The Guardian]
Watching the NY Phil play the Korean folksong Arirang at the end of their concert in Pyongyang, North Korea was profoundly moving. I first heard the encore on the CNN website before seeing the concert in full last night via PBS feed but the effect was the [...]
NYPhil in North Korea Liveblogging (For Reals This Time)
Ok folks, the listings have been checked and rechecked. Contact has been made with people at Channel Thirteen and it seems that the concert should be ready to stream after midnight tonight.
Everything is set. Allons-y!
0:00 The Channel 13 man has played fast and loose with the truth again. The video is [...]
NYPhil in North Korea: Post Concert Press Roundup
(photo credit: David Gray/Reuters)
Daniel J Wakin in the NYTimes and International Times Herald. More interesting is the audio interview.
Warwick Thomspon has a rather lame write up on Bloomberg.com that describes the playing of the Koran folksong Arirang, a moment all other press has described as the most moving of the concert, as “long dull [...]
NYPhil in North Korea Liveblogging
Morning folks. It’s 3:50am, that grey area between night and the next morning when most sensible people are in a blissfully deep sleep. Miss Mussel is, however, awake and readying herself for the biggest concert event of the millennium.
In the style of the great Guardian Over-by-Over reports, what is follows is a [...]
DPRK & The NY Phil: The Game So Far
For those of you keeping score at home, here are the teams as of right now: (26th Feb, just after 11:30am)
On the Bad Idea Team, we have Terry Teachout and Norman Lebrehct and Greg Sandow weighing in with:
“What would you have thought if Franklin Roosevelt had encouraged the Philharmonic to accept an official invitation [...]
Maazel Hopes NY Phil Visit Will “Nudge Open The Door”
NY Phil conductor Lorin Maazel has an op-ed piece in today’s Wall Street Journal entitled simply “Why We’ll Play Pyongyang.” Miss Mussel’s first question was why the WSJ and not the NY Times, but then she remembered Terry Teachout’s WSJ piece published when news of the tour first broke. After re-reading, the handwringing seems [...]
Friday Links
Loads of wonderful things to link to this morning. Sometimes it’s a shame that there aren’t more hours in the day, or at least less items that are irreparably labelled “need to be done now.”
First thing’s first. Jeremy Denk has a piece up at the NewMusicBox on what he what he likes in [...]
North Korean Orchestra To Tour UK
This just in from the CBC:
And North Korea’s State Symphony Orchestra may be planning to play three concerts in Britain this September, its largest tour to date.
The BBC will broadcast all three concerts live, according to a report Friday on Radio Free Asia.
Neither state sources nor the BBC would confirm the tour, but a spokeswoman [...]
When Is A Gig Just A Gig?
Miss Mussel read Terry Teachout’s article on the NY Phil’s planned visit to North Korea with interest that, by the end of the first paragraph, turned to bewilderment. Since there are several points for which Miss Mussel has a contrary opinion, it seems most efficient to respond to each individually.
Mr Teachout begins by saying [...]
