Thank you for uploading this....very good music to listen to while working. Classical music is the best, stands the test of time and can fit all moods, unlike most pop music which is really just recycled pulp. I dread the day that AI will brainwash people in their musical appreciation also...but classical will always be with us, I hope.
The music level of North Korea should not be lower than that of China. Even if there is no special music education at all, the music rhythm of North Koreans is far higher than that of the Chinese. North Korea's backward ideology is not equal to the level of backward music.
In 2008, a historic event took place: The New York Philharmonic, under the baton of acclaimed conductor Lorin Maazel (1930-2014) traveled to Pyongyang, North Korea to perform a concert at East Pyongyang Grand Theatre. It was the first time since the Korean War that significant US-American cultural representatives were permitted to visit the secluded country. This event captures a historic moment in which music found itself navigating sensitive political realities, and revealed its unique power - the power to awaken human minds and to push for change by creating moments of communication, unity, and hope. The New York Philharmonic began the concert by performing the national anthems of North Korea and the United States, followed by a program that introduced the audience to European and US-American classics (such as Richard Wagner, George Bizet or Leonard Bernstein), and created moments of symbolic meaning: After performing pieces such as Antonín Dvořák's Symphony "From the New World" and George Gershwin's "An American in Paris", the orchestra closed the concert with the famous Korean folk song "Arirang", which is beloved in both, South and North Korea.
