The New York Philharmonic's concert in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, led by Music Director Lorin Maazel on Tuesday February 26, 2008, will be broadcast live nationally by Korean Central Television, it was confirmed by the DPRK Mission to the United Nations in New York. The live national broadcast will allow a wider audience of the people within the country to view the concert, which will be performed in the East Pyongyang Grand Theater during a 48-hour visit by the New York Philharmonic to Pyongyang, February 25-27. The concert program will include the National Anthems of both the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United States of America; the Prelude to Act III of Wagner's opera Lohengrin; and two works that received their world premieres by the New York Philharmonic: Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, From The New World, and Gershwin's An American in Paris.

"We are very pleased that the DPRK has confirmed this internal national broadcast," said Zarin Mehta, President and Executive Director of the New York Philharmonic. "A wide distribution of the concert within the country has been a central element of our agreement to perform in Pyongyang from the start. Our hope is to bring this great music to as many people living there as possible, people who may not otherwise be exposed to such a performance, and touch their lives in the way that this music so often touches ours."

The Philharmonic's concert in Pyongyang will be broadcast live internationally in a production by the New York Philharmonic and EuroArts Music International (a Medici Arts company) in co-production with MBC (Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation) of the Republic of Korea and ARTE France, and in cooperation with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union). In the United States, the concert will be broadcast in the New York area on Thirteen/WNET on Tuesday, February 26 at 8:00 p.m., ET, and nationally on PBS on February 28 at 9:00 p.m., ET (check local listings).