Forthcoming in March!

Mother Mountain and Father Sea

This CD set is the first comprehensive and geographically systematic collection of its kind, will be published under the White Cliffs Media label in March. Each of the CDs focuses on the musical traditions of a region of Vietnam, from The Delta of the Nine Dragons to the Delta of the Red River.

"This represents the first American-Vietnamese effort to document the ethnomusicology of Vietnam, made possible by Earthwatch support," said Phong Nguyen (Executive Director of the Institute for Vietnamese Music). "The materials collected are exceptionally valued by ethnomusicologists, representing sounds that are either no longer heard or are transformed by recent events."

 

Concert Monday, March 24, 2003 6:00pm
Dayton Smith Auditorium, San Diego State University

Lecture/Demonstration Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:30am
University of North Carolina Music Department

Mini-concerts Thursday, January 30, 2003; 11:45am - 12:15pm; 12:30pm - 1:15pm
University of North Carolina Grand Memorial Lounge

Lecture/Demonstration Friday, January 31, 2003 1:00pm - 1:50pm
University of North Carolina Vietnamese Language Class

Phong Nguyen Ensemble February 1, 2003 - 8 p.m.
Virginia Samford Theatre
Sponsored by Birmingham Music Club

CHAMBER MUSIC FROM ASIA February 2, 2003 at 3pm with a 2:15 Pre-Concert event
Durham Arts Council

Lecture/Demonstration on Chamber Music of Asia Monday, February 3, 2003
Duke University Music Class

SOUNDS OF BAMBOO FROM VIETNAM

Institute of Vietnamese Studies, 15355 Brookhurst St., Suite 222, Westminster.
Sunday, October 27, 2002, 3:00 pm. (714) 775-2050 (Free Admission)

San Diego State University / School of Music and Dance
Monday, October 28, 2002, 6:00 pm J. Dayton Smith Hall ($10/$6)

 Featured Artists: Phong Nguyen, Dock Rmah, and Miranda Arana
 In Vietnam, bamboo tubes and roots have been used to produce musical instruments of magnificent shapes and amazing sounds. From the highlands to the lowlands, bamboo music serves to signal, praise, and entertain. Many kinds of instruments are skillfully made from this simple material: lute, zither, gong, clapper, jews harp, buzzer, flute, etc.  Sounds of the bamboo flute and clapper in Vietnamese chamber music imprints in the mind of poets and singers a significant artistic aesthetic. The sheer beauty of the music of different ethnic groups lies not just in the sounds, but in the diversity of repertoire played either on a single tube or a complex polyphonic bamboo ensemble. Sounds of the bamboo from Vietnam is presented in the way the music is heard in everyday life of the Viet, the Jarai, the Bahnar, the Sedang, and the Ede.