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National Music and Dance Performance Held

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- A national music and dance performance "Our Nation Is Best" was given at the Yun I Sang Concert Hall in Pyongyang recently. It was sponsored by the Korean National Music and Dance Institute. Put on the stage of the performance which began with women's chorus "Our Nation Is Best" were songs and dance pieces on colorful themes. Among them were Arirang serial songs, collections of folk songs and songs created in the period of enlightenment, cuckoo serial songs, dance pieces including "Nodulgangbyon", "Water Jar Dance" and "Drum Dance". The performance was acclaimed by the audience for its high artistic value. Vocal solo and pangchang(off-stage song) "Arirang", vocal solos "Sodo Arirang" and "Ryonggang Tharyong" and vocal quartet "Dear Kangnam" and other songs full of national emotion were well represented to suit the spirit of the times and to keep alive traditional characteristcs in playing technique and singing song, thus implanting in the mind of the audience the great pride of being members of the resourceful Korean nation with a long history and brilliant culture.
    The kayagum (Korean harp) solo "Out Post in Spring" left a deep impression on the mind of the audience for its national tone and rich volume.
    Meanwhile, national dance pieces were also applauded by them as the dancers danced well to the traditional Korean tunes and rhythms.
    The Korean National Music and Dance Institute has systematically recovered and arranged national musical heritage to carry forward and develop them in accordance with the demand of the Songun era.
    Kim Tu Il, director of the institute, told KCNA that the performance fully demonstrated the validity and vitality of the literary and art policy of carrying forward the national musical heritage of the country by properly combining folk songs with folk songs created in the Songun era in the form and content on the basis of the achievements made in preserving the national character better.