Korean Children's Choir Easily the counter-trendy, underground equivalent of Bulgarian female-voice choirs, the Korean Children's Choir achieves nearly the same ethereal heights, but on a different scale. Created in 1945 and consisting of wartorn orphans, the Choir made their United States debut in the 50s. Performing a set list comprised of Korean folk songs, as well as of snippets of Americana, the Choir manages to hypnotize as well as charm. 25 grade schoolers' voices combine in upper registers in such a manner as to evoke a cartoon made by Mercurian animators educated from nothing but early Walter Lantz cartoons. One particular highlight is of Lee Yuh Chin's breathtaking "Danny Boy" solo …l you can practically see the slo-mo ending footage of a black-&-white WWII movie as accompianment. Quite like nothing Americans had ever heard, or have heard since.
Review by Quinzio |