KoreaTimes(682) - Music, Entertainment, page 9

Site Map E-paper Subscribe Register LogIn
Site Map E-paper Subscribe Register LogIn

Entertainment

Music

Thu, October 28, 2021 | 21:17

Paul McCartney urges vaccine take-up as new album released

British pop legend Paul McCartney on Friday urged people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, as he celebrated the release of a new solo album crafted during this year's lockdown.

2020-12-21 05:48

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra to live stream Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) will perform Beethoven's 'Choral' Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 at Lotte Concert Hall to mark the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth, Sunday. The concert will be live streamed.

Park Ji-won | 2020-12-20 14:43

[INTERVIEW] Korean American composer transforms daily life into music

A fractal is a mathematical concept referring to a feedback loop pattern that repeats a replication process indefinitely. This kind of self-similar pattern can be seen in many things. For example, the Eiffel Tower has a fractal-esque structure and many examples of approximate fractal structures can be found in nature, for example in fernbrake - a key ingredient in well-known ...

Park Ji-won | 2020-12-15 15:09

Top 10 news in music: K-pop, trot are not mutually exclusive

The year 2020 saw a rare phenomenon in Korea's music industry: It was the year of mutual gains for trot and K-pop, defying the long-held belief that musicians of the two drastically different genres are inevitably pitted against each other over popularity.

2020-12-14 08:43

Beatles survivors McCartney and Ringo still making music

Forty years after John Lennon died at the hands of an evangelical Christian assassin, surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are still making music, now on their own. Sir Paul may be 78 years old but he is bringing out his 18th solo album "McCartney III" on December 18.

2020-12-06 15:37

Music streaming service Melon under fire for categorizing BTS as J-pop

Melon, the nation's leading music streaming service run by Kakao, has come under fire for categorizing K-pop sensation BTS as J-pop. The firm changed the category and listed BTS as simply a pop group, but fans have continued to criticize the platform for the misstep.

Park Ji-won | 2020-12-03 09:13

Indie musicians raise voice on gender-based discrimination

Some indie musicians have broken their silence about discrimination based on gender in the music scene through a compilation album. A project album “We, Do It Together” by Wewewe Project was released on Nov. 26 in hopes of raising awareness on gender based discrimination issues. Kim Min-jung, vocalist of the six-year-old indie band Ego Function Error and the leader of the Wew...

Park Ji-won | 2020-12-01 13:25

Pianist Sunwoo Ye-kwon hopes to bring comfort

Award-winning pianist Sunwoo Ye-kwon released a new album, Tuesday, which he hopes will comfort pandemic-weary people.

Park Ji-won | 2020-11-25 13:59

Pianist Choue Hee-youn holds recital

Pianist Choue Hee-youn will present a solo recital at the Youngsan Art Hall on Yeouido in Seoul, Nov. 25. It will include works by Bach, Mozart, Debussy and Albeniz.

Kwon Mee-yoo | 2020-11-20 09:31

Folk singer says 'bring back hippies' to solve COVID-19 problems

Legendary Korean folk rocker Hahn Dae-soo returned to his homeland recently to record and release what he promises will be his final album, “Blue Skies White Clouds,” on Nov. 14. He came here with his Russian-American wife and their teenage daughter, leaving behind their New York home with no definite plans to return. “I'm 72 now, and once again I am at the epicenter of a pan...

2020-11-16 17:42

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

CEO & Publisher : Oh Young-jin
Digital News Email : webmaster@koreatimes.co.kr
Tel : 02-724-2114
Online newspaper registration No : 서울,아52844
Date of registration : 2020.02.05
Masthead : The Korea Times
Copyright © koreatimes.co.kr. All rights reserved.