Musical Diplomacy?
Who knew that driving home from Bible study last night would be an historic event? Enjoying a rare bit of solitude, I turned on NPR and was transported by the passionate horns in the last movement of Dvorak's "New World Symphony" - as I listened, I was thinking about how it would make a good soundtrack for an old-fashioned Western...
Turns out I was hearing a replay of Tuesday's landmark concert by the New York Philharmonic - in Pyongyang, North Korea! Invited by the North Koreans, the orchestra helped put aside the stalemate over nukes for one night of beautiful music masterfully performed.
It ended with a lively Gershwin piece. I found a bit of humor in it:
The New York Philharmonic was playing "An American in Paris" in Pyongyang.
Truly, the language of music is universal.
Turns out I was hearing a replay of Tuesday's landmark concert by the New York Philharmonic - in Pyongyang, North Korea! Invited by the North Koreans, the orchestra helped put aside the stalemate over nukes for one night of beautiful music masterfully performed.
It ended with a lively Gershwin piece. I found a bit of humor in it:
The New York Philharmonic was playing "An American in Paris" in Pyongyang.
Truly, the language of music is universal.
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