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New Year Performance, Masterpiece of Juche-oriented Art

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

     Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- The New Year celebration performance "Blue Sky over My Country" is going on at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium before full house, giving confidence and courage to the army and people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea who have turned out in the general advance of the Songun revolution this year. The performance, with a famous song "Blue Sky over My Country" loved by the Korean people as the seed, shows in an epical picture the firm will of the army and people to defend forever the blue sky over their country founded by President Kim Il Sung, under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il. Perfect in ideological content and artistic value are all the numbers of the performance including mixed duet and chorus "Blue Sky over My Country", chorus "Song to Marshal Kim Il Sung" and "Road of Victory" and female solo and chorus "Song to Comrade Kim Jong Il". It constitutes a new development of the Juche-oriented art.
    The grand concert-style performance is given with 60 meter-wide chorus as the main.
    The performance is staged to the accompaniment of chorus from the prelude to the finale. It is well combined with colorful songs and instrumental ensembles including vocal solo, vocal quartet, trumpet duet, violin ensemble and song to musical instrument. A group sculpture dance brings the ideological content of songs in bolder relief.
    The unique gentle and elegant timbre strong in national coloring of the Korean-style mixed orchestra fully reflects ever efflorescing musical art of the country. The kayagum ensemble and male chorus "Song of Mt. Maebong" and oungum ensemble and pangchang "Always with the Guiding Star" to the accompaniment of the mixed orchestra which keeps the inherent playing technique of national musical instruments alive, are loudly applauded by the audience.
    The grand army-people chorus is participated by creators and artistes from the State Merited Chorus of the Korean People's Army, the Mansudae Art Troupe, the KPA Song and Dance Ensemble, the Phibada Opera Troupe and other famous art organizations of the army and society. The performance vividly reflects the ardent love of the army and people for the fatherland with the help of perfect ensemble, high artistic technique and new stage effect.
    Among the performers are more than 200 international concours winners, "February 16 Art Prize" winners, People's and Merited Artistes, People's and Merited actors and actresses including Kim Ki Yong, Hong Kyong Hun, Ri Song Chol, Jo Hye Gyong, Ri Chon Ryong.
    The New Year celebration performance, one more monumental masterpiece in the Songun era, thoroughly embodies the ideas and theories of Kim Jong Il, a great master in literature and art, from its repertoire to conduct, musical arrangement, playing and stage change.