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May 15 2013 14:10   by ICCN / hit 2,427

[ICCN world culture concert] Slovak Chamber Orchestra successfully done

[ICCN world culture concert] Slovak Chamber Orchestra successfully done

 
ICCN World Culture Healing Concert - Slovak Chamber Orchestra, co-hosted with Gangneung Culture Foundation, supported by the Embassy of Slovakia in Korea, was successfully held on April 27th at the Gangneung City hall 2F Grand Hall.
 
Slovak Chamber Orchestra was founded by Vilonist, Bohdan Warchal in 1960. With his excellent leadership, the Orchestra became one of famous Slovak Orchestras. For this concert, they played songs of Mozart to welcome the season of Spring.
 
More than one thousand Gangneung citizen came to the concert and enjoyed the color of Slovak Culture. Gangneung Coffee was gone along with the beautiful tune of Slovak Chamber Orchestra.
 
As the pre-event of the concert, Photo Exhibition of Slovakia also was held from 22nd to 27th of April at the lobby of City hall. Beautiful landscape of Slovakia and its history after Velvet revolution was presented.
 
Also, the ICCN Secretariat made a special session for the exhibition of cultural items from Cachtice and Vadovce, beloved ICCN member cities, on that day. In particular, RAPKAC, children's toy and Pernik, slovakian traditional ginger bread were loved by many people. (ICCN Secretariat got the recipe from the Embassy of Slovakia and asked to the local bakery to make them as similar as possible.)
 
ICCN Secretariat will continue to have this kind of event which can share the charms of ICCN member cities' culture to locals in Korea.
 
ICCN Secretariat
 
Sketch of the Event