Conductor Chung Chi-yong and Flutist Lee Yerin Present 2020 Masterpiece Chung Chi-yong

Conductor Chung Chi-yong, a professor of the School of Music, presented 2020 Masterpiece Chung Chi-yong with the National Orchestra of Korea. This concert highlighted repertoires that had never been re-performed by the National Orchestra of Korea for the past 25 years after their premieres. It introduced a total of four gugak pieces: gugak orchestral music River, House of Emotions, a flute concerto, Long Arirang, and another gugak orchestral music Academic Ritual and Tomorrow. In the flute concerto, Long Arirang, flutist professor Lee Yerin joined as a performer. Long Arirang with the original sound of rhythmic changes in melodies bases on the local folk songs originated from Gyeonggi-do and Seo-do.

Composer Chang Sukjin recomposed it into a traditional orchestra and introduced it in 2018 with the National Orchestra of Korea. In the meantime, before the concert day, the National Orchestra of Korea gave a melodic dictation party for the audience. In this event, composers Kim Sung-kook, Kim Take-su, Choi Ji-hye, and Chang Sukjin introduced composers’ intentions and the key characteristics of each musical piece while playing the music for the attendants. The audience could acquire a better understanding of the music before the concert.