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Class nurtures love for cheo opera

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twice a week, a group of more than 20 young people gathers together to learn and practise Ly Truong Me Dop  – an excerpt from the famous cheo (Vietnamese traditional opera) repertoire Quan Am Thi Kinh.

Traditional music as tourism bait

 VietNamNet Bridge – A proposal to use UNESCO-recognised Don ca tai tu music to attract tourists has given rise to conflicting opinions, with some veteran musicians warning that commercialisation could devalue a cultural heritage.

Troupe works to keep traditional music alive

 VietNamNet Bridge – Artists from HCM City's Bong Sen Music and Dance troupe will bring traditional music to the city's schools in an attempt to arrest the music's declining popularity among young people.

Ca tru club preserves traditional music

 VietNamNet Bridge – An old man passionately plays a three-string lute, while another man beats castanets and a young woman sings classical songs.

Veteran researcher makes a pitch for future of traditional music

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Don ca tai tu music and song in southern Vietnam, a musical art with both scholarly and folk roots, has been inscribed early this month on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Ca tru club preserves traditional music

 VietNamNet Bridge – An old man passionately plays a three-string lute, while another man beats castanets and a young woman sings classical songs.

Vietnam's classical music star in the making

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Do Anh Tuan, 23, graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music in the US. Continuing what has the makings of a sparkling career, he has just won the excellent conductor award

Old song sheet inspires book about VN music

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese-Australian Nguyen Le Tuyen says he was lucky to discover a Tai tu music piece performed in Paris more than 100 years ago.

Ca tru songstress takes world music by storm

VietNamNet Bridge – Gliding her delicate fingers over the dan tranh, Nguyen Kieu Anh ardently releases her mind to the beautiful sound of ca tru, injecting a wave of stimulation across the audience of Viet Nam's 2013 Got Talent contest.

Tai tu revived for Shanghai stage

 VietNamNet Bridge – Eight senior Vietnamese artists (six musicians and two singers) last Friday, July 5, completed rehearsals for performing an old piece of tai tu music at an international event in Shanghai this week.