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<\/p>\nCarrying the luggage of love and burning passion along for folk music, The Dan, a fourteen-year-old boy, left his hometown (a countryside of Thanh Hoa Province) to Ha Noi. That boy was admitted and then attended the Erhu class at Vietnam Music School (now the Vietnam National Academy of Music). People\u2019s Artist The Dan\u2019s life was attached with to the ethnic musical instrument since then. During his school years, he also explored and learned from friends concerning other traditional musical instruments. As the matter of fact, People\u2019s Artist The Dan is a true master in terms of playing Monochord, Zither, Sanxian, Pipa, Bamboo flute, etc. He won the Gold Medal at the National Music and Dance Festival in 1980 with the Erhu solo performance while still studying at the Academy. In 1982, he was a graduate of the first official course from the Department of Traditional Musical Instruments, Vietnam National Academy of Music and was appointed as a retained college lecturer. From then on, the People\u2019s Artist The Dan has been continuing his journey with the sound of ethnicity as a teacher with the responsibility to spread the flame of love for traditional music to the descendants. Currently, he is the Head of the Erhu Department and the Department of National Orchestra Concert, Vietnam National Academy of Music.<\/p>\n
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The artist with a wholehearted love for art<\/em><\/p>\n Standing on the lecture hall, People\u2019s Artist The Dan realized that in fact there were not so many musical compositions composed for Erhu in particular and for the Vietnamese ethnic orchestra in general. He was, therefore, always showing concerns for the way to get the compositions made especially for traditional musical instruments. By learning how to compose songs and instrumental combinations, People\u2019s Artist The Dan wrote a number of musical works for the Erhu, arranged and air-mixed many musical compositions for solo performance of traditional instruments and folk orchestra\u2019s symphonies, typically as: \u201cB\u00e8 xu\u00f4i v\u1ec1 b\u1ebfn\u201d, \u201cN\u00e9t \u0111\u00e0o ng\u00e0y xu\u00e2n\u201d, \u201c\u00c2m vang n\u00fai r\u1eebng\u201d, etc. Most of his compositions have won several awards, used to teach at professional music training schools and advertise and broadcast as well on television at home and abroad.<\/p>\n The People\u2019s Artist The Dan\u2019s strong desire is to honor and bring folk music to the flow of the world music as well as bring traditional art closer to the audience. He and his colleagues have pulled a lot all-nighters studying and experimenting in order that the sound of Vietnamese national instruments could be played in harmony with other instruments such as violin, cello, contrabass, etc. in the modern orchestra of the world. The sound of his instruments had stamped its unforgettable mark on the audiences through tons of outstanding performances: Erhu solo \u201cTh\u0103ng Long ng\u00e0n n\u0103m h\u1ed9i ng\u1ed9 (Thang Long thousand years of reunion)\u201d along with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra at the second \u201cAsia – Europe\u201d Music Festival; Erhu concert \u201c\u01af\u1edbc v\u1ecdng (Desire)\u201d with the international symphony orchestra and the one and only – conductor Le Phi Phi, etc. The classic musical compositions and internationally recognized melodies were presented by People\u2019s Artist The Dan\u2019s Vietnamese traditional erhu such as \u201cSambario\u201d (Italian music), \u201cT\u00ecnh ca du m\u1ee5c (Love song of nomads)\u201d (Russian music), \u201cTop of the world\u201d (American music), \u201cHana\u201d (Japanese music), etc. Thereby, the sound of the unique Erhu increasingly became familiar and closer and also more popular with more and more audiences, especially young ones. Performances of the teacher (The Dan) and his students of the Traditional Musical Instrument Department, Vietnam National Academy of Music taking place at the walking street around Hoan Kiem lake on the weekend draw attentions to a large number of local lookers, music lovers and even foreign tourists as well.<\/p>\n The People\u2019s Artist The Dan is playing Erhu with the Modern symphony orchestra<\/em><\/p>\n By innate talent, People\u2019s Artist The Dan has invented a special instrument made from ivory bamboo and named it \u201cBamboo\u201d instrument. It has the same shape and structure as the K\u2019ni – an instrument of ethnic groups in Truong Son – Tay Nguyen. His \u201cBamboo\u201d instrument is well made and delicate with every single detail, from the board, strings, bow stick, bamboo pieces, etc. The instrument consists of two parts which are able to be disassembled separately and connected together by a joint, it really looks like a knot of an ivory bamboo. He used to say humorously, \u201cMy bamboo instrument can do the tricks like unstick and stick together!\u201d Along with Erhu, the \u201cBamboo\u201d instrument itself carries Vietnamese soul, The Dan played an important part in introduce widely the traditional music of the nation to many other countries: England, France, America, Russia, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, India, Thailand, Hong Kong, etc.<\/p>\n The People\u2019s Artist The Dan with the \u201cBamboo\u201d instrument made by himself<\/em><\/p>\n In the nearly fifty years of accompanying with folk music, The People\u2019s Artist The Dan was honored to receive the title \u201cElite Artist\u201d in 1997, and then came to the title \u201cPeople\u2019s Artist\u201d in 2016 along with many certificates of merit at all levels and noble awards in the field of art.<\/p>\n Several foreign audiences raised questions that the origin of musical instruments like Erhu, Zither or Bamboo flute weren\u2019t stemmed solely from Vietnam, they were also available in China, Japan or Korea. At that time, with the hometown melodies, the People\u2019s Artist The Dan confidently responded to international friends that instruments were just a mean to convey emotions. But Vietnamese people play them with our own souls with and the sound of the instrument itself embracing the melody and rhymes of the Vietnamese quintessence, which is the Vietnamese character: \u2018bold and unique, and cannot be mixed with other cultures in the world\u201d. The journey of nearly half a century has passed and witnessed the whole-life dedication of the People\u2019s Artist The Dan in order to preserve and spread the beauty of Vietnamese culture in national sound.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Minh Trang<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carrying the luggage of love and burning passion along for folk music, The Dan, a fourteen-year-old boy, left his hometown (a countryside of Thanh Hoa Province) to Ha Noi. 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