‘Step, Step, Step’

The New York Philharmonic is the main orchestra in New York — but there are others, including the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra. Some think that the pit band is better than the onstage symphony orchestra. But that’s another article.

Among the lesser orchestras — very lesser — is the Ureuk Symphony Orchestra. The name derives from a legendary musician of Korean antiquity, Ureuk. He invented the gayageum, a kind of zither.