Ayelet Heller
Americans in Pyongyang
Video Director: Ayelet Heller - Artist: Ayelet Heller - Producer: EuroArts Music International, New York, Seoul, in association with the New York Philharmonic, Thirteen/WNET, in coproduction with Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation & Arte France - Conductor: Lorin Maazel - Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, George Gershwin & Antonín Dvořák - Orchestra: North Korean State Orchestra & New York Philharmonic
Americans in Pyongyang
In summer 2007 the New York Philharmonic received an invitation that was unprecedented in the orchestra's history. North Korea, the world's most isolated and secluded country and technically at war with the United States, invited the orchestra to play in the capital of Pyongyang. Just a few months later, two hundred orchestra members and more than one hundred journalists disembarked from a chartered plane at Pyongyang's deserted airport. They were about to experience a historic moment, the first-ever performance by an American orchestra in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The film 'Americans in Pyongyang' accompanies the orchestra members on their historic trip to Pyongyang in February 2008.