12-Year-Old New Yorker’s Music Makes It To Pyongyang

Lost in all the hype over the New York Philharmonic’s trip to North Korea was the fact that the trip to Pyongyang marked the international debut of a new piece of music by a 12-year-old composer. Farah Taslima “had originally written it for the entire Philharmonic two years ago, and it was played at one of the orchestra’s Young People’s Concerts at Lincoln Center.”