Korean Music Performance

• Event Date: Saturday, March 5, 2005
• Time: 4:30 pm (CST)
• Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: $5

• Performance

Featuring Nirumsay, a Korean music ensemble

Nirumsay is a Korean music ensemble based in Chicago. Their program will include a folk dance and a series of musical pieces performed on traditional instruments including the daegeum, a long, transverse, bamboo flute, the gayageum, a twelve-stringed zither, the haegeum, a two-stringed fiddle. The group will be joined by percussion ensemble Work and Play. The pieces performed will range from folk music to arrangements played for the royal court.

From 4:30-5:00 PM, the ensembles will present an educational program that introduces the audience to these instruments and the types of music played on them. From 5:15-6:00 PM, a full concert of music and dance will be presented.

Tickets are $5 and can be reserved by calling the Spurlock Museum information desk at 333-2360. One ticket covers both programs.

The event is co-sponsored by the UI Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and a gift in memoriam of Dr. Yuen Tze Lo by his wife Sara de Mundo Lo. It is also sponsored in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Visit the website of the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts at http://www.ncktpa.go.kr/english_version/html/ja0h000101.html for more information on traditional Korean music.