The New York Philharmonic’ concert in Pyongyang on February 26, conducted by Lorin Maazel, will be broadcast live, worldwide, on satellite television, a statement from the orchestra said on Friday, January 25.
The announcement of this historical concert was made on December 11 in New York during a press conference to which participated Pak Gil Yon, alongside the orchestra’s president Paul Guenther and Zarin Mehta, who has been music director since 2002.
The orchestra will perform the American and North-Korean national anthems, then will proceed to play the Prelude to Act III of Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, Anton Dvorak’s ninth symphony, “From the New World” and George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris”.
The concert will take place in the East Pyongyang Grand Theater, at the end of a tour that will take the New York Philharmonic to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. The musicians, who will be staying in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from February 25 to 27, will then go to Seoul, where they are scheduled for a concert on February 28.
The live broadcast of the concert will be co-produced by the Philharmonic and EuroArts Music International (a Medici Arts company), the South-Korean television channel “Munhwa Broadcasting Company” (MBC), ARTE France and the EBU (European Broadcasting Union). The broadcast will be directed by Michael Beyer, with Paul Smaczny and Thomas Baer as executive producers. The performance can be watched on Thursday, February 26 at 8 p.m. (ET) on Thirteen/WNET New York GREAT PERFORMANCES on PBS (check local listings). The DVD of the event will be released in spring 2008 by EuroArts.
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