{"id":467,"date":"2007-10-05T07:05:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/05\/ny-phil-to-play-in-n-korea\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:52:05","slug":"ny-phil-to-play-in-n-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/05\/ny-phil-to-play-in-n-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Phil to play in N. Korea?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From today’s NY Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n

With the encouragement of the State Department, officials of the New York Philharmonic<\/a> were en route to North Korea yesterday to discuss a possible concert in Pyongyang in February.<\/p>\n

The idea of a visit to North Korea, where the totalitarian government keeps a tight rein on the people and sharply restricts access to the outside world, began with a somewhat vague invitation in August but has taken shape in recent weeks. Zarin Mehta, the orchestra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s president, and Eric Latzky, its public relations director, were in Beijing yesterday and are due in North Korea tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Complete article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From today’s NY Times: With the encouragement of the State Department, officials of the New York Philharmonic were en route to North Korea yesterday to discuss a possible concert in Pyongyang in February. The idea of a visit to North Korea, where the totalitarian government keeps a tight rein on the people and sharply restricts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,55,3656],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-new-york-philharmonic","tag-orchestra","tag-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-7x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":580,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/10\/new-york-phil-to-play-pyongyang\/","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":0},"title":"new york phil to play pyongyang","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's finally official: the New York Philharmonic will play a concert in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, in February 2008. 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