On Tuesday, the orchestra performed an historic concert in Pyongyang, North Korea, becoming part of the largest American delegation to visit that country since the early 1950's. We'll have excerpts from that concert, including Lorin Maazel conducting Gershwin's "An American in Paris." And we'll talk with WNYC's John Schaefer, who was at the concert.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Gioachino Rossini: "William Tell" Overture
The New York Philharmonic with conductor Leonard Bernstein
Gioachino Rossini: Overture to "La Cenerentola" ("Cinderella")
The Buffalo Philharmonic with conductor JoAnn Falletta
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo
Franz Schubert: Impromptu No. 3, Op. 90
Violist Helen Callus and pianist Robert Koenig
Unitarian Society, Santa Barbara, California
George Gershwin: "An American in Paris"
The New York Philharmonic with conductor Lorin Maazel
East Pyongyang Grand Theater, Pyongyang, North Korea
Hour 2
W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan: "Oh! Is There Not One Maiden Breast?," from "The Pirates of Penzance"
Tenor John Mark Ainsley and soprano Rebecca Evans with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera and conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
Gareth Farr: "Waipoua"
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with conductor Kenneth Young
Gioacchino Rossini and C.E.F. Weyse: Comic Duet for Two Cats
Soprano Byung-Soon Lee, contralto Meredith Arwady and pianist Spencer Myer
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63
Violinist Julia Fischer with the Netherlands Philharmonic and conductor Yakov Kreizberg
Weimar Hall, Weimar, Germany
Alessandro Striggio: "Ecce Beatam Lucem"
The Huelgas Ensemble with conductor Paul Van Nevel
Abbaye de Noirlac, Bourges, France
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