Korean performers to present musical medley

The aesthetics of traditional Korean music will be experienced on Saturday, Nov. 15, when the UB Faculty of Arts and Letters welcomes six of Korea's outstanding performers to the stage of Slee Concert Hall on the North Campus.

The program, titled "Korean Music: Tradition and Innovation," will begin at 8 p.m. It is free of charge and open to the public.

Co-sponsors are The Korea Society of Washington, D.C., and the Korean Culture Program of the Korea Foundation in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

The performance will be an exciting complement to the UB Korean Studies Program, which recently became part of the East Asian Languages and Cultures section of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and is experiencing steady growth due to the increasing popularity of Asian languages.

Hae-Kyung Um, a research fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at Queen's University of Belfast in the United Kingdom, will discuss the characteristics of Korean classical and folk music.

The concert will consist of five classical pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries and three contemporary compositions from the 20th century.