Clockwise from top right: San Francisco's Del Sol String Quartet will join performers from the National Gugak Center, who will play traditional Korean instruments like gayageum, piri, and saenghwang.
Gugak, the ancient court and folk music of Korea, is characterized by a huge range of sounds from piercing oboes and bombastic percussion to the dulcet tones of reed flutes, zithers, and fiddles. The ...