What's special about the upcoming 'Beloved Vietnam' concert in Hanoi?

The Green Wind Choir, the Green Wind Band and guest artists will together create surprising experiences for the audience.

It is a unique Acapella-style piece called Rain , a complete harmony praising life in favorable weather, the simple dream of each of us, especially after going through many storms.

The repertoire also includes the Hue folk song Ly Ngua O with its lively rhythm, the eternal wish for couples to reunite; Hanoians , both heroic and romantic, sung passionately and proudly by those living on the land of a thousand years of civilization.

Two shows "Loving Vietnam 2024" took place on October 12-13 at the Vietnam National Academy of Music, Hanoi.

For the first time, Hanoi audiences were able to enjoy the full 7 chapters of the Choral Suite Five Drops of Water - a composition by the late musician Hoang Luong, with arrangements for choir and symphony orchestra combined with the Vietnamese T'rung instrument.

This is a story about 5 drops of water from 5 rivers and seas of the world , telling about the place where we were born, grew up and sharing the spirit of humanity, solidarity and love.

The international songs Wannabe-Spice up your life and They don't care about us are performed for the first time by Gio Xanh, promising to bring an explosion of emotions to the audience.

Ms. Nguyen Hai Yen, conductor of the Green Wind Choir, shared: “With the pride of being a Vietnamese community choir, we want to embrace everything that flows in the Vietnamese soul, through every generation, through many eras of life, like the flow of rivers carrying everything it passes through.

And so, the program includes folk songs from several regions, revolutionary songs, new contemporary songs, foreign songs translated into Vietnamese, and classic songs from around the world."

As every year, Green Wind still reserves about 300 seats to invite children from the support centers in Hanoi to enjoy the concert. Some children who love to sing will be directly trained by conductor Hai Yen and will perform with the choir in the program.

Founded in 2019 with 80 members, to date, Green Wind has gathered nearly 200 members from 6 to 86 years old. Green Wind is the first community choir to organize its own choir concert - an event that has become annual and is highly anticipated by audiences.

In particular, Green Wind always reserves hundreds of seats for special guests: disadvantaged teenagers from social protection centers.

In 2020, 2022, 2023, Green Wind organized 8 non-profit concerts in Hanoi, Da Nang , Ha Long. More than 1,200 children from social protection centers were invited to enjoy the concert, of which more than 100 children participated in the choir performance in the program.

Le Chi

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