The first performance was given at the Hamhung Grand Theatre on Tuesday.

It was enjoyed by officials of the party, power organs and working people's organizations in the province and officials and working people of industrial enterprises including the February 8 Vinalon Complex, the Ryongsong Machine Complex and the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex.

After the playing of the national anthem, all the performers and audience paid silent tribute to General Secretary Kim Jong Il in humblest reverence.

Its repertoire included female trio and chorus "Cantata to Comrade Kim Jong Il", female trio and female pangchang immortal masterpiece "Song of Best Wishes", male solo and pangchang "When We Sing of Songun", male sextet and pangchang "Appearing in the East and in the West, It's the Anti-Japanese Guerilla Style", orchestral music and chorus "On the Path of Struggle under the Leadership of the General" and narration and orchestral music "Korea Has Risen Up".

Melodies of the hymns on the leader solemnly rang out on the stage, leading the audience to recollect with deep emotion the course in which South Hamgyong Province advanced in the van of the era under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.

The concert imbued the audience with the ardent wishes of the dear respected Kim Jong Un that the province would fulfill its obligation as soldiers and disciples of Kim Jong Il who invariably trusted and projected its workers as vanguard fighters in economic construction.

The performance goes on.