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ㆍSubject		People & Performance 2
ㆍDate		2009-06-25
ㆍLink		www.worldmusicinstitute.org/event.php?id=887
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Isabel Soffer, Director of Programming of World Music Institute,

                             she talks about KIM Juhong and Noreummachi.

While my organization World Music Institute (WMI) in New York has presented a fascinating array of traditional Korean music and dance groups throughout our 24 years of concert programming, we have never included a Korean group in our annual touring roster.  

 
I was thrilled to attend the PAMS meeting last year with a special focus on traditional music and dance of Korea through KAMS. Our small group of presenters from a cross section of countries were introduced to an extraordinary selection of Korean traditional groups in some astonishing venues throughout Seoul.  
 
While keeping in mind the possibility that I may find a group to tour throughout North America, I kept an open mind to all the groups I would see perform. I have always been intrigued by the arts of Korea due to its gorgeous diversity from shaman and pansori songs to its b-boy groups and contemporary dance. WMI has made a valiant effort to expose the arts of Korea to as wide a public as possible in New York City, with varying degrees of success. Trying to tour a group across North America would be another matter.
 
One series of daytime performances included the group Noreummachi, a captivating group that performs the virtuosic percussion, vocal and dance tradition known as Samulnori. Led by Kim Juhong, since the Samulnori tradition has had good exposure in North America but has not toured for many years I thought this would be an ideal group to try to tour.  I knew Noreummachi’s blending of the traditional with contemporary, dance and percussion, its virtuosic artists and the group’s commitment to touring and reaching new audiences made this group an easy choice. Plus the tradition has a story to tell: its music and dance had a huge effect in galvanizing the student movement and in re-engaging Koreans with their traditions. 
 
As I was to soon find out, P’ungmul nori, the origin of Samulnori, represents the soul of Korea . Whereas court music died out for the most part with the end of dynastic rule in the early 20th century, p’ungmul nori, a folk medium, was maintained in the villages and rural areas. After the 1961 military coup and throughout the latter half of the 20th century, students throughout employed p’ungmul nori as a medium to empower the masses and demonstrate against the authoritarian government. 
 
Samul-Nori today, with its emphasis on percussion, has dramatically changed the way that Korean music had been perceived both in the West and by young Koreans; here is a music that is easily accessible and speaks a universal language.
 
Founded in 1994 by Kim Juhong, a graduate of the Korean Traditional University, who studied singing, shaman rhythms, and pansori with masters of these genres, Noreummachi is steeped in the tradition of P’ungmul nori and its derivative Samulnori while embracing outside elements and improvisation in their entrancing performances.
 
We are thrilled to bring this group to the United States in January and February 2010, and we hope this will begin a long relationship of touring in this country.  Visit our website worldmusicinstitute.org for details on the tour.

 

-> Find more about Kim Juhong and Noreummachi at WMI's website

http://www.worldmusicinstitute.org/event.php?id=887


World Music Institute is a not-for-profit concert presenting organization dedicated to the research and presentation of the finest in traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the world. WMI supports and encourages musicians from immigrant communities and collaborates with universities, cultural organizations, and other presenting organizations that have similar goals. Each year WMI presents more than 60 concerts, organizes several tours and has a mailorder catalog and website with more than 5,000 recordings and books.

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