{"id":30505,"date":"2025-10-01T21:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sovhtt.hanoi.gov.vn\/en\/?p=30505"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:42:14","slug":"promoting-central-highlands-culture-and-arts-in-the-capital-city-of-hanoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sovhtt.hanoi.gov.vn\/en\/promoting-central-highlands-culture-and-arts-in-the-capital-city-of-hanoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Central Highlands Culture and Arts in the Capital City of Hanoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30506\" src=\"https:\/\/sovhtt.hanoi.gov.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>The musical drama \u201cThe Aspiration of Dam San\u201d (The Aspiration of Dam San) \u2013 Photo: Organizing Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These activities are organized by the Dak Lak Provincial Department of Culture and Sports in collaboration with the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports to promote Central Highlands culture and arts in Hanoi.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the folk music and art program titled \u201cThe Call of the Highlands\u201d will take place at 19:30 on April 12, 2025 (Saturday evening) at the stage of Ba Kieu Temple Flower Garden, the pedestrian zone surrounding Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring gong performances, ensemble performances of traditional musical instruments, and songs about the Central Highlands, the program will introduce to the audience in the Capital the distinctive characteristics as well as the diverse and rich traditional cultural values of the Central Highlands region. The vibrant and unique folk melodies of Central Highlands ethnic groups, harmonized with bamboo and rattan instruments and the sounds of gongs and chimes, create the majestic music of the mountains and forests \u2013 sometimes as melodious as the flowing streams, and other times thunderous like waterfalls\u2026 All resonate like a grand symphony encompassing the full range of emotions and colors of life echoing from ancient times. Through the unique combination of Central Highlands traditional instruments and the skillful performances of the artists, the works vividly recreate the lively sounds of the great mountains and forests, the harmony and connection between humans, nature and the divine. Especially, the program presents to the Capital\u2019s audience the Central Highlands Gong Cultural Space, which has been inscribed by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30507\" src=\"https:\/\/sovhtt.hanoi.gov.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>The musical drama \u201cThe Aspiration of Dam San\u201d \u2013 Photo: Organizing Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>On Sunday evening, April 13, the musical drama \u201cThe Aspiration of Dam San\u201d will be performed at Cong Nhan Theater, 42 Trang Tien, Hanoi.<\/p>\n<p>The musical drama \u201cThe Aspiration of Dam San\u201d was produced based on the epic Dam San \u2013 a work collected by French ethnographer Sabatier in Dak Lak and published bilingually in Ede\u2013French in Paris in 1927, which gained prominence among Western folklore researchers. The Dam San epic has been compared to renowned European heroic epics such as The Iliad and The Odyssey of Greece and \u201cThe Song of Roland\u201d of France. In Vietnamese literature, the Dam San epic is one of the most outstanding works \u2013 a literary genre born from the rich, romantic and soaring imagination of the ancient Ede people in the Central Highlands.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing from the Dam San epic, playwright Hong Hoa created the script \u201cThe Aspiration of Dam San\u201d with new plot details and the message of praising the beauty of love in harmony with nature, especially glorifying the aspiration and romantic yet heroic beauty of the Ede people in the Central Highlands. The drama is performed by the Dak Lak Ethnic Folk Music and Dance Troupe, aiming to contribute to the restoration and preservation of Ede culture through music and visual theater, and is expected to become a unique and distinctive cultural tourism product of the Central Highlands region.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30508\" src=\"https:\/\/sovhtt.hanoi.gov.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>The musical drama \u201cThe Aspiration of Dam San\u201d \u2013 Photo: Organizing Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Held on the weekend at the Hoan Kiem Lake pedestrian zone, the folk music and art program \u201cThe Call of the Highlands\u201d and the musical drama \u201c<em>The Aspiration of Dam San<\/em>\u201d will bring to the audience a unique cultural space of the Central Highlands right in the heart of the Capital Hanoi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The musical drama \u201cThe Aspiration of Dam San\u201d (The Aspiration of Dam San) \u2013 Photo: Organizing Committee These activities are organized by the Dak Lak Provincial Department of Culture and Sports in collaboration with the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports to promote Central Highlands culture and arts in Hanoi. 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