The Old Man and the Child

Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

"Three Vietnamese voices that cannot be silenced" - Cao Ngoc Phuong, Thich Nhat Hanh, Trinh Cong Son Music and poetry in English and Vietnamese, according to the front cover Produced by same group of the "Poets for Peace" LP

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

The Compassionate Arts presents "Cry of Vietnam", Fellowship of Reconciliation, Box 271, Nyack, N.Y. 10960; no catalogue number is printed. The front cover, "Produced by the Compassionate Arts of the Fellowship of Reconciliation", carries a woodcut and calligraphy by Vo-Dinh (the woodcut from his series "Crimson Silk", then on exhibit in Saigon) showing a screaming figure, with the subtitle "Three Vietnamese Voices that Cannot Be Silenced – Cao Ngoc Phuong, Thich Nhat Hanh, Trinh Cong Son", "Music and Poetry in Vietnamese and English" and "Featuring: Reading by Robert Ryan". Credits: Raphael Gould, producer (Director, Compassionate Arts); Steve Addiss, music consultant; Douglas Hostetter, translation consultant; Richard Groskopf, sound engineer; cover drawing, Vo-Dinh; poems read by Thich Nhat Hanh are from his book "The Cry of Vietnam" (Unicorn Press, Santa Barbara, copyright 1967…

About the artist

Cao Ngọc Phượng was a professor of biology at Saigon and Hue universities and, before her departure in 1969, chief organiser of the Buddhist student underground in Vietnam; she was vice-president of the National Committee for the Relief of War Victims of the United Buddhist Church and spokesman of the Buddhist School of Youth for Social Service, Saigon. [Source: record sleeve and labels]

Themes

Vietnamese Perspective · South Vietnamese · Peace · Buddhism

In collections

Other Vietnamese Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]