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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...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e++music/video/performance rights must be cleared++\u003cbr/\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 first start by thanking our hosts for inviting us to Pyongyang.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway wide of news conference \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lorin Maazel, Musical Director, New York Philharmonic Orchestra  \u003cbr/\u003e\"We are also here to meet our counterparts here in Korea.\" (pauses for translation into Korean)  \"When I say counterparts, I mean the young men and women who play instruments, who are in orchestras, who dance, who sing.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway journalists at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e8. 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/\u003e9. 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/\u003e10. Cutaway wide shot news conference\u003cbr/\u003e11. 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/\u003e12. Translator translating Mehta's words\u003cbr/\u003eThe New York Philharmonic Orchestra arrived on Monday in North Korea on a historic trip as 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, 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/\u003eMaazel and orchestra members earlier on Tuesday attended a performance that featured folk dancers and was largely devoid of the ideological content typical of most North Korean shows. \u003cbr/\u003eOnly the last number was overtly political: A woman dressed as a guerrilla and brandishing a red scarf performed a dance dramatising Korean resistance to Japan's colonial occupation before World War II.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Philharmonic accepted the North's invitation to play last year, with the encouragement of the US government,\u003cbr/\u003eat a time of rare optimism in the long-running nuclear standoff involving the two countries.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter successfully testing an atomic bomb in October 2006, North Korea shut down its main nuclear reactor in July and has been working to disable it in exchange for aid and removal from US terrorism and sanctions blacklists.\u003cbr/\u003eBut disarmament has stalled this year because of what Washington says is North Korea's failure to give a full\u003cbr/\u003edeclaration of its atomic programmes to be dismantled, as Pyongyang promised to do under an international agreement.\u003cbr/\u003eThe visit came as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attended Monday's inauguration of South Korea's new\u003cbr/\u003epresident, Lee Myung-bak. \u003cbr/\u003eShe said before leaving Washington she did not plan to stop in Pyongyang during a trip that also included China and Japan.\u003cbr/\u003eThe concert was slated to feature Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 and \"An American in Paris\" by George\u003cbr/\u003eGershwin. Among planned encores was the Korean folk song \"Arirang,\" beloved in both the North and South.\u003cbr/\u003eThe performance was scheduled to begin with the orchestra playing both countries' national anthems, and the US and North Korean flags would stand together on stage, said Mehta.\u003cbr/\u003eBesides holding master classes for North Korean students, members of the orchestra will also play chamber music with members of the North's State Symphony Orchestra. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was not known whether North Korean leader Kim would attend the concert. 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