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Wide of news conference held by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zarin Mehta, President and Executive Director, New York Philharmonic Orchestra: \"A few hours from now, the New York Philharmonic will give its...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of news conference held by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zarin Mehta, President and Executive Director, New York Philharmonic Orchestra: \u003cbr/\u003e\"A few hours from now, the New York Philharmonic will give its 14-thousand-589th concert.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zarin Mehta, President and Executive Director, New York Philharmonic Orchestra: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Of course this is our first concert in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.\" (pauses for translation into Korean)  \"I would like to start by first thanking our hosts for inviting us to Pyongyang.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway wide of news conference \u003cbr/\u003e6. Cutaway journalists at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lorin Maazel, Musical Director, New York Philharmonic Orchestra:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"That is I understand that the concert will be televised live throughout Korea, so that anyone who has a television set, and I would imagine quite a few people do, will be able to follow the concert and see the musicians of the New York Philharmonic on stage making music.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zarin Mehta, President and Executive Director, New York Philharmonic Orchestra: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Let me add also that it will be broadcast on the radio in Korea, in North Korea, and....\" (pauses for translation into Korean)  \"Let me add that we've been informed that the concert being televised and broadcast in the DPRK live is a most unusual event and almost unheard of.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway wide shot news conference\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zarin Mehta, President and Executive Director, New York Philharmonic Orchestra: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The way it was explained to me by Ambassador Hill back in September in New York was that this is a process, as part of the multi-lateral talks, of going towards normalisation of relations with the DPRK, and an effort by the New York Philharmonic to perform here should help in those future normalisations.  When we came here in October, we were given the same message from the DPRK side, that they wish to establish greater trade relations, and the relationship of a culture organisation being welcomed here would be an important first step.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Translator translating Mehta's words at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of rehearsal by New York Philharmonic, applause, zoom into Lorin Maazel, conductor of New York Philharmonic, as Korean presenter introduces him\u003cbr/\u003e13. Tilt down on North Korean audience applauding\u003cbr/\u003e14. New York Philharmonic playing North Korean national anthem, zoom out to wide\u003cbr/\u003e15. Audience standing for North Korean national anthem\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of New York Philharmonic playing US national anthem, zoom into musicians on stage\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of audience standing for US national anthem, North Korean flag\u003cbr/\u003e18. Maazel is presented with bouquets, applause\u003cbr/\u003e19. People leaving concert hall, pan right\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lorin Maazel, Conductor of New York Philharmonic:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Musicians make music. That's what we should be thinking about and nothing else. But in view of the difficulties we've all been having in communicating in this part of the world and vice versa, the fact we received this very friendly invitation from the North Korean government to make music here was of significance to us and the State Department and so forth. So if there are extra-musical values attached to this event, which would be eventually of a positive nature, well so much the better.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of snowy cityscape\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of monument with statue of figures and hammer and sickle\u003cbr/\u003eThe New York Philharmonic Orchestra made final preparations on Tuesday ahead of an historic performance in Pyongyang later on Tuesday.\u003cbr/\u003eThe orchestra arrived in North Korea a day earlier - the most prominent American cultural institution to visit the isolated communist country.\u003cbr/\u003eNorth Korea made unprecedented accommodations for the orchestra, allowing a delegation of nearly 300 people -\u003cbr/\u003eincluding musicians, staff and journalists - to fly into Pyongyang on a chartered plane for a 48-hour visit.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Philharmonic's concert on Tuesday was scheduled for live broadcast on North Korea's state-run TV and radio, unheard of in a country where all events are carefully choreographed to bolster the personality cult of leader Kim\u003cbr/\u003eJong Il.\u003cbr/\u003eSenior orchestra figures held a news conference in Pyongyang on Tuesday, at which its President and Executive Director, Zarin Mehta, thanked his hosts.\u003cbr/\u003eAlso speaking at the news conference was Lorin Maazel, the orchestra's Musical Director.\u003cbr/\u003eMehta was asked about how the visit came about.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said it had been explained to him by Ambassador Christopher Hill that \"this is a process, as part of the multi-lateral talks, of going towards normalisation of relations with the DPRK, and an effort by the New York Philharmonic to perform here should help in those future normalisations.  When we came here in October, we were given the same message from the DPRK side, that they wish to establish greater trade relations, and the relationship of a culture organisation being welcomed here would be an important first step.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe New York Philharmonic earlier in the day, held a full dress rehearsal for its historic performance at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre.\u003cbr/\u003eMaazel conducted the US and North Korean national anthems while members of the orchestra and an audience of North Korean musicians remained respectfully standing. \u003cbr/\u003eFlags of the two countries stood on opposite sides of the stage.\u003cbr/\u003eThe evening concert will include Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 - popularly known as the \"New World Symphony,\" written while the Czech composer lived in the United States and inspired by native American themes - and George Gershwin's \"An American in Paris.\" Among planned encores was the Korean folk song \"Arirang,\" beloved in both 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