Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
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The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1945, is the oldest and most famous orchestra in South Korea. Its first foreign tour came on a 1965 trip to Japan, followed by performances in Southeast Asia in 1977, the United States in 1982, 1986 and 1996, a 1988 tour of Europe before the Seoul Olympics that year, and a 1997 performance in Beijing. The Philharmonic is under the control of the Seoul city government, with whom it has occasionally clashed.
Its current music director is Myung-Whun Chung.
[edit] External links
- (Korean)Homepage
- "Seoul Philharmonic aiming to become world-class orchestra", Yonhap News, January 13, 2006.
- "Seoul Philharmonic Protests With Music", The Korea Times, March 31, 2005.
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