The Yeosu Gifted Youth Orchestra, in tandem with the Southern High School Manta Ray Band, filled the American Memorial Park stage last Wednesday night with music.<\/p>\n
The orchestra featured dozens of student musicians from South Korea\u2019s city of Yeosu, and the renowned Manta Ray Band. The Public School System and Yeosu Office of Education recently established a memorandum of understanding to establish a sisterhood relationship to promote educational and cultural exchange.<\/p>\n
Wednesday night\u2019s performance featured a joint concert with the Yeosu Orchestra and Mantas jointly playing the compositions Stars and Stripes Forever and Arirang.<\/p>\n
Separately, the orchestra first wowed the packed crowd with compositions like Light Cavalry Overture, Yesterday, Gabriel\u2019s Oboe, tunes from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie and Tears in Mokpo.<\/p>\n
The Mantas, with their conductor William Dewitt, played Sinatra!, Land of Make Believe and other pieces.<\/p>\n
Conductors for the Yeosu orchestra were Du-Sup Park and Sung-Won Kang.<\/p>\n
Park said in an interview that he hoped to visit Saipan again soon. He said one piece they chose was a \u201cvery famous Korean song.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody knows that piece,\u201d he said, adding that they hoped to connect with the Korean community here, as the piece would remind them of their home country.<\/p>\n
The Korean Association of Saipan facilitated the event.<\/p>\n
Association president Hong Kyun Kim said they decided to do this because of the sisterhood relationship between Yeosu and the CNMI.<\/p>\n
Yeosu performers have performed in the CNMI in events in the past, he said through a translator.<\/p>\n
He said the Yeosu musicians are comparable to adult musicians.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are still in elementary and junior high school but their quality and their play of music is wonderful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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