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As scheduled, the artists, who are members of music band “Tambores de San Millan”, will have performances at Cong Nhan (Worker) Theatre in Hanoi on April 13 and at Opera House in Haiphong on April 14.
Established in 1976, Tambores de San Millan has successfully upheld traditional folklore of San Millan region, which is dying out.
Through their performance in foreign countries, the band has helped preserve traditional culture, promote community activities, prevent social evils and combat discrimination.
It has received many prestigious prizes and toured many big cities around the world.
Concert hosts world premiere of symphonic poem
Composer Tran Manh Hung's latest piece will be premiered at a concert by the Viet Nam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) on Thursday.
Based on the beauty of nature, the symphonic poem entitled Bach Dang Giang was written to honour the good qualities of Vietnamese people.
Born in 1973, Hung currently teaches at the Military Academy of Culture and Arts, regarded as one of the most powerful symphony composers.
His piece Le Chi Garden was written for Germany Television and first performed at the Beethoven International Festival 2009 in Bonn, Germany, while his symphonic poem Thang Long Spirit was composed to celebrate the 1000th Thang Long – Ha Noi anniversary.
His latest piece will be performed under the baton of conductor Tetsuji Honna, with Japanese harpist Yoshino Naoko appearing on stage to perform Harp Concerto.
Born in London, Naoko is in great demand as a recitalist and chamber musician in Japan. She has won many prizes including first place at the Ninth International Harp Contest in Israel, the Arts Festival Prize awarded by the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs and the Mobil Music Award for Brilliant Young Musicians.
Two pieces by Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich and Frenchman Claude Debussy will also be performed at the concert.
The two-night show will kick off at 8pm at the Ha Noi Opera House.
Ben Tre ready for coconut festival
The third biennial Ben Tre Coco Festival will be held from April 4 to 10 in the Mekong Delta province.
Titled “Ben Tre on The Road to Integration and Development,” the event aims to honor individuals and organizations that have contributed to the local coconut goods production sector and to exchange contacts with coconut growers and businesses in the region.
The festival is scheduled to gather around 500 booths from more than 250 coconut businesses from southern provinces growing coconut, as well as some countries belonging to the Asian Pacific Coconut Community.
The festival will also include a series of cultural events such as a street parade, exhibitions featuring coconut products, a trade shop selling top Vietnamese goods and a seminar on how to increase the value of coconut products by 2015, and ongoing towards 2020.
A beauty pageant titled “Miss Coconut Land,” gathering more than 80 contestants from localities growing coconut, will also be organized within the framework of the festival.
The festival will take place on Dong Khoi Avenue in Ben Tre City.
Guitarists entertain public in riverside park
Hundreds of local residents and foreign tourists gathered at the riverside February 3 Park on Sunday evening to enjoy a free concert performed by the Hue Guitar Orchestra.
The string orchestra, grouping 20 guitarists who are lecturers and students at Hue Conservatoire, will entertain visitors free of charge at the park near Trang Tien Bridge every Sunday, from 5-6pm.
The Hue Conservatoire's trumpet orchestra has begun its free public concerts at the riverside park every Saturday since February.
Documents on President Ho in Tuyen Quang discussed
A symposium entitled ‘Researching and verifying documents on President Ho Chi Minh from 1945-1954’ was held in Tuyen Quang province on April 2 by the Ho Chi Minh Museum and the Tuyen Quang provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Tuyen Quang province was chosen as the capital of the resistance at that time, where President Ho Chi Minh and the Party Central Committee lived and worked to lead the war against the French.
Discussions at the event focused on the context, story and historical significance of events related to President Ho Chi Minh in Tuyen Quang province before the 1945 August Revolution and during the national resistance war against the French colonialists (1947-1954).
Many treasured documents and artifacts from the time the great President lived in Tuyen Quang were also verified at the event.
Participants touched upon using those documents in displays and preserving them education and to promote the value of sites related to Ho Chi Minh in Tuyen Quang and neighbouring provinces.
The symposium also provided the basis for how to display these documents about President Ho Chi Minh in 1945 and from 1947-1954 at museums and historical sites in order to highlight the significant contributions the beloved national leader made to the country and Vietnamese people when he lived and worked in the northern province.
Vietnamese film presented at US universities
Director Bui Thac Chuyen will screen his film Choi Voi (Adrift) at several American universities from Sunday.
At the invitation of the New York-based Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education, Chuyen will also partake in discussions following each showing.
The film will run from April 8 to 15 at eight universities including Yale, Pennsylvania, New York and Princeton.
Chuyen was the first Vietnamese director to win the Cinefoundation third prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.
Adrift, which also won the FIPRESCI prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2011, stars Vietnamese overseas actress Linh Dan Pham, who achieved fame in the Oscar-winning movie Indochine.
Hue fest offers taste of Belgium
Two Belgian artists will take part in the upcoming Hue festival, which is considered by many as the most important art activity in Viet Nam, starting this Sunday.
Singer Manou Gallo and composer Max Vandervorst are set to entertain the public with their original performances after being invited to participate by the Wallonie - Bruxelles delegation in Viet Nam.
"The Hue festival is one of the most important cultural events in Viet Nam. That's why the Wallonie-Bruxelles delegation is very honoured and happy to take part in this year's festival in order to promote cultural diversity and globalisation, as well as the respect of the countries and cultural traditions," says Franck Pezza, head of the delegation in Viet Nam.
Born in the Ivory Coast in 1972, Gallo first performed on stage at the age of 12. Her first trip to Brussels was in 1997 and she released her first album Dida in 2002 to high critical acclaim. Her third album Lowlin (Voyages) issued in 2009 was nominated for the MAMA Awards 2009 (MTV Africa) after she had been named Best Artist in the Ivory Coast. She will add the Hue festival to her list of international tour dates on Sunday and Monday after entertaining a Ha Noi audience tomorrow at the Youth Theatre, 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street at 8pm.
Vandervorst, a talented composer and inventor of musical instruments, will take the stage from April 9-14. Since 1988, he has put together a number of performances showcasing instruments he created out of a wide variety of objects. Some of his performances include Symphony for Abandoned Objects, Concerto for Two Bicycles, The Man from Spa, A History of Music, and This is Not a Show.
In particular, he created the House of Pataphonia in Dinant (Belgium) with the hope that he could make the world resonate with sound.
Vietnam to host arts exhibition on water landscapes
An exhibition of works by 17 artists from Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and the Philippines will open in Hanoi on April 12 and then in Ho Chi Minh City one month later.
The multimedia works of art, including photos, videos and installations are focused on changes in the eco-system and living environment of human beings, which have been caused by the consequences of socio-economic development.
As part of the exhibition, a green cultural week will also be organized for film, shows, discussions, humorous scientific explanations on climate change, games and other creative activities.
Walkers come together at city show
‘The Walkers’ group exhibition has opened at the HCMC Museum of Fine Arts until Saturday.
The show exhibits thirteen works created by a female artists group from Saigon and Hanoi consisting of Le Hien Minh, Nguyen Thuy Hang, Vu Khanh Van, Ly Tran Quynh Giang and Nguyen Kim To Lan. The pieces have a wide range of styles from oil painting to pop art to installation.
They are a reflection of the personal issues of a woman contemporary artist such as: the forgotten gift of imagination, how the complexity of the inner world deals with the outside world; people insensitive to the changes in the world and the beauty of the solitude and memories of the past.
The show is highlighted by Pop Art works by Van who depicts sexy lips as a symbol for women. Meanwhile, Giang depicts women’s insights in nude paintings with much thoughts, meditation and desires of a woman.
Minh brings to the show an installation with around 200 wooden books to commemorate her late father, researcher Le Duong Hao. Meanwhile, Lan is out to make visitors think with her growing green buds in a scaffold made of aluminum and plastic covers. Hang expresses boldly her surrealist dreams via the installation ‘Just a black dream’ with a person standing in front of a mirror who has an animal head with duck beak, long arms and legs with human hands.
“Life goes by in a second and artists have to stop or slowly walk to look around the surroundings and life to find values as well as meanings of each move in this life. And in that journey, each artist is an individual walker,” said Hang.
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