Wi-Fi TV Inc. (Pink Sheets:WTVN) plans to provide Internet users around the world with a live feed from North Korean television of the historic live concert today by the New York Philharmonic. It will open with the playing of the United States and Korean national anthems, something no one would have expected to be possible a year ago. Zubin Mehta, the great conductor who is now president of the New York Philharmonic orchestra, has said that he hopes the show in North Korea will help rid the country of isolation, and develop contacts with the outside world.
The show can be seen in its entirety, the same way it will be seen in North Korea, at 7 PM Pacific time, 10 PM Eastern time, live on the home pages of www.Wi-FiTV.com.
Music Director Lorin Maazel leads the orchestra in Wagner’s Prelude to Act III of "Lohengrin," Dvorak’s "Symphony No. 9" ("From the New World"), and Gershwin's "An American in Paris." The program will be transmitted from the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre. The Philharmonic visit marks the first by American artists there.
"I have always felt that music is a powerful language," says Maestro Maazel, "in which those of us who are humane and intelligent can speak to each other, in defiance of political and cultural boundaries." The concert is the centerpiece of a 48-hour visit to Pyongyang by the Philharmonic.
Both Dvorák's "Symphony No. 9" and Gershwin's "An American in Paris" are works commissioned and premiered by the Philharmonic. Written primarily while Dvorák was living in a five-room apartment in Manhattan, "Symphony No. 9" is in four movements and is best known for its "Largo" section. That melody, with words by a Dvorák pupil, is popularly known today as "Goin' Home." Gershwin's sparkling homage to the City of Lights debuted, like the Dvorák work, at Carnegie Hall. Commemorating the short-lived composer's fifth and last trip to Europe, just months before its premiere, it continues to delight listeners with its lush and energetic evocation of the sights and sounds of the French capital in the 1920s.
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