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Marathon concert that crosses genre and generation

Posted April. 26, 2016 07:24,   

Updated April. 26, 2016 07:33

한국어
The Right Now Music 2016 Marathon Concert will be taking place at Ewha Womans University Samsung Hall at 2 P.M. on April 30, featuring musicians from different generations, instruments and genres.

 

The concert is in a marathon format, consisting of two 3-hour sessions, from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. (including 1-hour intermission). A total of seven bands will be on the stage during the 6-hour long concert, some of them performing in collaboration. Popular musicians from Korea and the world will be breaking barriers between genres and show off their vision of contemporary and future music.

The Right Now Music Concert was inspired by annual marathon concerts being held in New York City, which first began 28 years ago at a gallery in the city, opening up a new concert culture. The April performance will be the second annual concert in Korea.

Korean pianist Park Jong-hwa will be the first to be on the first session stage playing Steve Reich’s “Piano Counterpoint,” the next stage followed by Flux Quartet, an American string quartet. Gayageum (a Korean traditional 12-string zither with silk strings) player Park Gyeong-so, the New York-based Mantra Percussion group, accordion player Shim Seong-rak, and bandoneonist Gosangji Band will demonstrate collaboration stages.

The second session will be featuring “The Labyrinth,” composed and played by South Korean Gayageum master Hwang Byung-ki, followed by other musicians who appeared on the first session.

Kim In-hyeon, CEO of ETM, an entertainment agency and art director of the concert, said he hopes to redefine contemporary music “right now,” through the performance.



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