From the PBS'
Great Performances website:
THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC LIVE FROM NORTH KOREA
THE CONCERT WILL BE STREAMED LIVE ON FEBRUARY 26 at 4 AM (EST).
The New York Philharmonic's upcoming historic concert in North Korea's capital city Pyongyang premieres via satellite, with Music Director Lorin Maazel leading the orchestra in Dvorák's "Symphony No. 9"("From the New World"); Gershwin's "An American in Paris," and Wagner's Prelude to Act III of "Lohengrin." Opening with the national anthems of North Korea and the United States, the program will be transmitted from the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre, with behind-the-scenes coverage by Bob Woodruff of ABC News. The network has had rare access inside the closed society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, where contact with the outside world is completely forbidden to citizens. The Philharmonic visit marks the first by American artists there. "I have always felt that music is a powerful language," says Maestro Maazel, "in which those of us who are humane and intelligent can speak to each other, in defiance of political and cultural boundaries." The concert is the centerpiece of a 48-hour visit to Pyongyang by the Philharmonic.
The program will be broadcast on PBS on Thursday, February 28, 2008 (check local listings).