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Tue, March 19, 2019 | 17:29

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Changgeuk meets Peking opera in 'Farewell My Concubine'

Can "changgeuk," a type of theater style based on Korean narrative singing pansori, blend well with Peking opera, the iconic Chinese performance style combining music, mime, dance and acrobatics?The National Changgeuk Company of Korea (NCCK), which has been pioneering modernization of the genre, joined hands with Taiwanese actor and director Wu Hsing-kuo to experiment with ch...

Performances | 2019-03-14 16:51

This year, the Kumho Art Hall is featuring a performer every Thursday to spread classical music culture in Korea. The next concert will feature cellist Laurence Lesser and pianist Sohn Min-soo. Lesser is an American cellist who has performed as a soloist with some of the world's leading orchestras such as the Boston Symphony and the London Philharmonic. He is currently workin...

Performances | 2019-03-14 15:26

The Kumho Art Hall will be featuring a performer every Thursday to spread classical music culture in Korea. One of the upcoming performers is classical ensemble Lux Trio featuring pianist An Eun-yoo, violinist Lee Jae-hyeong and cellist Chae Hoon-sun. The trio was founded in Berlin in 2014. All three musicians studied together from a young age throughout middle and high schoo...

Performances | 2019-03-07 16:29

Korea Times hosts star-studded spring concert

The Korea Times presented its spring concert at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in central Seoul, Thursday, to celebrate the newspaper's 69th anniversary. Its readers were invited to the show as a token of gratitude for their support.

Performances | 2019-02-21 22:15

In 2019, Kumho Art Hall will be featuring a performer every Thursday to spread classical music culture in Korea. One of the upcoming performers is violinist Kim Dong-hyun, who was born in 1999 and made his first debut performance as a solo artist in 2012. He has worn several domestic competitions and even an nternational competition at the young age of 16 in 2016 in Romania.

Performances | 2019-02-21 18:15

CJENM participates in Broadway conference

CJ ENM took part in the Broadway League's Biennial Conference 2019 as the first-ever Korean corporate full member of the Broadway theater industry association from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1.The Korean media and entertainment giant was approved as an associate member of the Broadway League in 2014, the first Korean and third Asian company. CJ ENM has produced the Broadway shows "Kinky...

Performances | 2019-02-20 15:53

In 2019, the Kumho Art Hall will be featuring a performer every Thursday to spread classical music culture in Korea. One of the upcoming performers is violinist Dami Kim, who started the violin at the young age of five. She attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the New England Conservatory in Boston.

Performances | 2019-02-14 14:16

Bruno Mars puts on stellar concert show ahead of Super Bowl

Bruno Mars may have wrapped up his massive “24K Magic World Tour” last year, but the singer gave one more glimpse into his stellar show the night before the Super Bowl.It seemed like everyone appreciated his show.Some concertgoers danced down the aisles, others threw their hands up high and the majority recited Mars' lyrics at the Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest on Saturday n...

Performances | 2019-02-03 21:53

iKON, Chung Ha to perform at big annual U.S. music festival

K-pop stars including boy band iKON and solo artist Chung Ha will perform for a K-pop showcase during the annual U.S. music festival South by Southwest (SXSW), the American event's website showed Thursday."(The Korea Creative Content Agency) is back for their seventh annual SXSW Music Festival showcase," the website said, announcing the participation of the Korean team, title...

Performances | 2019-01-31 15:44

Pablo Neruda's poems meet pansori in changgeuk 'Poetry'

How would Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's rhyming verses sound in "pansori," a form of traditional Korean narrative singing? "Poetry," a new changgeuk, a type of theater style based on pansori, brings in Neruda's passionate poetry exploring love, loss, hope, life and death sung through pansori vocal techniques.

Performances | 2019-01-21 18:46

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