Song of Love

06 & 07 Mar, 8 pm
Hữu Nghị Palace of Culture
91 Tran Hung Dao, Hanoi

Trịnh Công Sơn (28 Feb 1939 – 01 Apr 2001) was a Vietnamese composer, musician, painter and songwriter. He, along with Phạm Duy and Nguyễn Văn Cao, is widely considered one of the three most salient figures of modern (non-classical) Vietnamese music.

Trịnh Công Sơn wrote over 600 songs, and, during the 1960s and 1970s, Joan Baez dubbed him the Bob Dylan of Vietnam for his moving antiwar songs. He became one of South Vietnam’s best-known singer-songwriters, after his first hit, “Ướt mi” (“Tearing Lashes”) in 1957. He was frequently under pressure from the government, which was displeased with the pacifist’s lyrics of such songs as “Ngủ đi con” (“Sleep, my baby”, a lullaby, about a mother grieving for her soldier son). After the reunification in 1975, Sơn was sentenced by the new communist government, to “retraining” in a labour camp after his family fled to Canada. However, he was eventually honoured by the government and many officials sent their respects with floral tributes to his funeral. His often melancholy songs about love and postwar reconciliation earned new acceptance and popularity in later years.

Source: Wikipedia.

This concert features singers: Thanh Lam, Mỹ Linh, Mỹ Tâm Quanh Dũng, Tấn Minh, and Quang Hà.

Tickets

Ticket price: 150,000 & 300,000 VND
All tickets available at Hữu Nghị Cultural Place and