Vietnamese Music Day to be celebrated

A variety of performances will be held in 13 cities and provinces across the country on Sept. 3-4 to celebrate Vietnamese Music Day.
A variety of performances will be held in 13 cities and provincesacross the country on Sept. 3-4 to celebrate Vietnamese Music Day.

A gala opening ceremony will take place at 8pm on Sept 3 at the VietnamSong and Dance Theatre. The ceremony will include classical andcontemporary music performances and five choir performances by 40 musiclovers from the Hanoi Music Association under the baton of conductorNguyen Thieu Hoa.

Notably, the music day celebration willfeature an appearance by a rhapsody orchestra consisting of six younginstrumentalists who will play Vietnamese works such as Pho Phuong Hanoi( Hanoi streets) and Oi Que Toi (Oh, My Homeland).

In abroad range of events, visitors will have an opportunity to enjoytraditional music in front of the capital's Dong Xuan market, a pianoconcert in HCM City , a music night in Hue and they will have theopportunity to meet musicians in the central coastal province ofQuang Ngai .

Da Nang will host a song writing camp toseek new songs while musicians and singers of the Cuu Long (Mekong)Delta region will gather at the southernmost province of Ca Mau toattend an art programme for the public.

Included inanother programme will be songs based on poems by war martyr Nguyen VanThac, which were intended as a gift to Vietnamese soldiers who put theirstudies aside to the liberation forces in Quang Tri province.


The annual Vietnamese music day, September 3, is organised to honournational music as well as encourage musicians and singers. On the sameday 51 years ago, President Ho Chi Minh conducted a choir and anorchestra in a performance of Bai Ca Ket Doan (Solidarity Song) atHanoi 's Bach Thao Park . /.

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