{"id":739,"date":"2008-02-06T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T07:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/06\/pbsabc-news-to-broadcast-nyphil-from-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:39:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:39:15","slug":"pbsabc-news-to-broadcast-nyphil-from-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/06\/pbsabc-news-to-broadcast-nyphil-from-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"pbs\/abc news to broadcast nyphil from north korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> just hit the wires moments ago – and it’s exciting stuff – I can remember in my lifetime when a major US news organization had a part in broadcasting a classical music concert. The only parallel in my mind might be Leonard Bernstein conducting Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony<\/a> just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.<\/p>\n

The New York Philharmonic<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concert in North Korea<\/a> on Feb. 26 will be broadcast that evening on WNET, Channel 13, and distributed two days later on PBS<\/a>, broadcast officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In an unusual arrangement, ABC News will cooperate with WNET, New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public television station, to produce the broadcast. Bob Woodruff<\/a>, a correspondent for ABC News who has reported from the tightly closed North, will provide \u00e2\u20ac\u0153behind-the-scenes coverage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the concert, WNET said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

the news connection is explained by WNET parent company president Neal Shapiro:<\/p>\n

The joint WNET-ABC News effort came from a desire to jump on the newsworthy nature of the event, said Neal Shapiro<\/a>, president and chief executive of WNET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parent, the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, which also includes WLIW, Channel 21, on Long Island. Mr. Shapiro is a former producer at ABC News and president of NBC News.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to just show a concert,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said in a phone interview. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was a historic place at a historic time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Mr. Shapiro, continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What makes it so interesting is the very nature of North Korea and what it means to have an organization steeped in everything that the free world implies, the center of culture and capitalism, making an appearance in North Korea.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This just hit the wires moments ago – and it’s exciting stuff – I can remember in my lifetime when a major US news organization had a part in broadcasting a classical music concert.<\/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_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":[115,1,2],"tags":[510,159,91],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-abc-news","tag-concert","tag-new-york-philharmonic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-bV","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":739,"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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