Chiếc gậy Trường Sơn (With a Walking Stick on the Indochinese Cordillera)
Dihavina · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Mạnh Hà & Hoàng Mãnh
- Title
- Chiếc gậy Trường Sơn (With a Walking Stick on the Indochinese Cordillera)
- Release
- Hànội Huế Sàigòn
- Label
- Dihavina
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Phạm Tuyên
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Notes
Dihavina 33, "Hànội – Việt Nam"; the front shows two white cranes in flight over a dark landscape under a yellow-green sky, with the title "Hànội Huế Sàigòn" in hand lettering and a small artist's signature at the top left. The back gives, for each song, the Vietnamese and English titles, music, lyrics, orchestration or piano arrangement, performers and conductor, with a one-sentence English summary; performers include Thanh Huyền (soprano) with the Orchestra of the Central Folk Music Ensemble, the Girl Chorus and Orchestra of the National People's Song and Dance Ensemble (conductors Quang Hải, Trần Quý), the Girl Chorus and Orchestra and the Male Chorus and Orchestra of the "Voice of Viet Nam" (conductors Nguyễn Văn Đậu, Cao Việt Bách), with Hoàng Mãnh at the piano. The title song is described as "Hà nội, Huế and Sài Gòn sisters of the same family now temporarily separated but surely…
About the artist
Hoàng Mãnh: Vietnamese pianist, born Võ Đức Quý on 17 December 1933 in Saigon, died 1 August 2015 in Ho Chi Minh City; a Meritorious Artist and one of the best-known piano accompanists of Vietnamese vocal music. [Source: Wikipedia (Vietnamese)]
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Ho Chi Minh Trail · Air War