You wouldn't hand your Uncle Ed a baton and have him stand up in front of the New York Philharmonic. You wouldn't stick a Kia engine under the hood of a Mercedes. And you surely wouldn't short-change or cut corners with an NFL team worth of Super Bowl aspirations, chintzing by with also-rans or haven't-yets at quarterback. At least not if you could help it, right?
She is only 37 years old, but violinist Midori Goto has already spent 25 years taking center-stage with the world's best orchestras.
A Power of music
updated: Thu Nov 06 2008 22:48:00
Midori Goto's love affair with the violin goes beyond the pleasure of playing to the way in which music connects people.
For most journalists, traveling into North Korea is like the holy grail of assignments.
Aid groups suggest Pyongyang executed 15 refugees to deter its citizens
from fleeing to China amid food shortages
A New York Philharmonic violinist sees her trip to North Korea as a lesson in family history. CNN's Alina Cho reports.
CNN's Alina Cho joins her family in Korea to rediscover their heritage and search for relatives lost during the Korean War.
An American orchestra performed a historic concert Tuesday in the communist state of North Korea -- one of the most secretive societies in the world. A group of 105 musicians made the journey to Pyongyang, but for one of them this trip was not just about music. It was about family history.
Beside diplomatic realities, the New York Philharmonic's historic trip to Pyongyang fostered true warmth and emotions
The New York Philharmonic will step up its role in cultural diplomacy next year by becoming the first U.S. orchestra to play in North Korea.
Fortune: Coughs Includedupdated: Mon Feb 02 1998 00:01:00
The ten-disk New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts, 1923 to 1987 (New York Philharmonic Special Editions, 800-557-8268) features the era's greatest conductors and soloists--and some truly ...
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