HOI TUONG DE TUONG NIEM: NHAC PHAM NGUYET CAM CUA CUNG TIEN

 BẢN WORD-EDITED CUẢ ĐẠI HỌC OREGON -- THE VIETNAM REVIEW

https://usvietnam.uoregon.edu/nguye%cc%a3t-cam-cua-cung-tien-va-cam-thuc-cua-nguoi-tri-thuc-la%cc%a3c-loai/ 

if you go away Ne Me Quitte Pas & Tiễn Em

 

Is she Vietnamese? This Paris-based opera singer, Ms. Le Van (now in the U.S.)

Please check her out:  

http://www.solenelevan.net/newspage

http://www.solenelevan.net/newspage

 I have listened to her sing.  She is the real thing. Operatic.  I can't say with conviction whether she sang her heart out, with soulful expression that touches people or that people understand her art, but she expressed the music, the text and the role -- what an opera singer should do in the repertoire.   AND, SHE DOES NOT NEED A MICROPHONE!  HER TRAINED VOICE, VERY PROPERLY USED, ROSE ABOVE THE ORCHESTRA. 

This is legitimately an opera singer. She appeared in roles with opera companies and on recital/operatic stage. 

In my work, life, and travels, I have met and listened to many real Vietnam-born classical and opera singers, including counter-tenors and dramatic sopranos.  Or, they are of Vietnamese descent either by their father or mother.  I have also known of Vietnam-born ballet dancers and modern dancers (members of the American Dance Company).  

While practicing law full time with major law firms, billing 2200 hours a years, and as a prosecutor for the U.S. government, I myself took up ballet, classical singing, musical theater,  operatic voice training, and appeared in American productions as a young adult, within 5 years after the fall of Saigon and going forward until age 42 (1999).  I just never had enough time to practice except when I auditioned or was cast.  In those incidents, I took leaves of absence without pay from work to do the art. 

Naturally I remain an amateur who only did what I could or enjoyed.  But, I can recognize performing art professionals when I see and watch them.  I can assess because I absorbed knowledge and learning from the places where I have been, no matter how short and often under great challenges because a person only has 24 hours a day and can only do so much. 

I become a better person.     

Miss Saigon The Movie in My Mind in Vietnamese lyrics

 

among my favortie's by Chopin

 

INTRODUCING THE MUSIC AND LYRICS OF NHAC SI PIANIST LE TUYEN

 

Betty Buckley: the voice and acting that motivated me during the eighties such that the judicial career toward the federal court could take second place

 

compare Sarah Brightman today: 

SEND IN THE CLOWN ON BROADWAY

 

vietnamese jazz singer and jazz band

 easy listening jazz:

https://www.facebook.com/8theTheatre/videos/3650435278347921/

NÓI VỀ OPERA, ÂM NHẠC, VÀ QUÝ TỘC TÂY PHƯƠNG:

 

NÓI VỀ ÂM NHẠC:

có posting cuả một người VN chắc cho là mình sành điệu âm nhạc cổ điển Tây Phương, và chắc theo thói quen TỪ VN: gọi nhạc sĩ Wagner soạn opera cuả Đức là "vĩ đại nhất nhân loại." Posting ca tụng thêm vua chúa và người có tiền tài trợ cho tài năng.

xin đọc câu nhận định rất chua cay nhưng chính xać cuả NN, dưới đây: .

Có người cho NN biết: Một độc giả cuả sự tôn dương "vĩ đại" này vô nói "Phew".

"Phew" nên nói khi người VN ca tụng "vĩ đại nhất nhân loại" và chỉ nói bời nhử̃ng kẻ có khuynh hướng đó. Một là̉ "hỗn," hai là...bị cứng họng không nói gì được nưã thì "phew," nhưng rất thích hợp với loại quần chúng đó.

"Phew" cũng có nghĩa...vâng lời, vì NN không muốn đối thoại với bất cứ ai ca tụng sự "vĩ̉ đại" cuả bất cứ ai. Nghe rất chướng. Nhân tài và thiên tài thật sự không cần sự tung hô vỉ̃ đại.

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NO NEED FOR DISCUSSION: just browsing and finding this on Do Quy Dan's forum, as there is something called freedom of speech, which happens to be my specialty in law: So I speak.

FOR READERS' fuller insight into the operatic art:

Wagner stood for very dramatic singing and splendid stage setting: in terms of the voice: kind of contrary to the Italian Bel Canto, which characterized renaissance, so to speak. So Wagner stood for the German school, in symphonies as well as in operas.

There are sources criticizing Wagner for anti-semitism (what else is new, but one should take the time to really look at Europe and Germany before Hitler). (There are critics speaking of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as anti-semitic as well).

If a singer does Bel Canto, the singer doesn't do Wagner and vice versa. yet, La Callas did it, she did both, within a week's time or so, at the invitation and "mandate" of Conductor Serafin (I believe, just don't hold me to it, since i don't comment on FB with dictionaries or WIKI next to my screen). She did it within a week! Superhuman.

To say that Wagner la nha soan opera vi dai nhat nhan loai thi lam on ngo' lai Bellini with Norma, Puccini, Rossini, etc. of the Bel Canto area and the Italian tradition -- that which created talents like La Callas, as I and many call her.

Cai gi cung la "vi dai nhat nhan loai" cu.m tu nay tu dau ra? Nghe tham thiet qua. I mean tha?m thiet, not tha thiet, not thắm thiết.

TCS da duoc dem ra dat ten duong o Hue cua tui, nhung that tinh TCS co viet duoc "hoa am" nao khong, cho tui nghe voi....

I saluted to Le Thuong, PhamDinh Chuong, before I even thought of TCS, whom I happened to know when I was 6 years old. I know where some of TCS's best songs came from, right around me and below his flat on Nguyen Truong To Hue, me at 6 years of age.

Wagner has his place, no doubt. He inspired many many.

Lam on phan tich nhac va dramaticism cua Wagner cho chung ta cung hieu va thuong thuc thi tot hon la ca len cau, 'vi dai nhat nhan loai."

Further, it's common knowledge that Baroque, classical, romantic, etc. composers of Europe lived off the aristocracy in order to create, so what's new?

Only Beethoven would dare claiming a "meritocracy" which derived from God and Angels (definition of "talents," i.e., Beethoven went to Heaven, Mozart came straight from ...Heaven!)

And then, Mozart, descending upon earth, spoke stacology, and the great Beethoven, upon turning deaf, told his sponsor the Prince (I forgot the spelling of the Prince's name -- Beethoven dedicated one of his best to that Prince. This is what Beethoven said: "Prince, you become you because of Birth, I become me because of...myself. so there are thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven."

And yet, I haven't yet said, how dare, I am yet to say, Beethoven is vi dai nhat nhan loai. Nghe den "vi dai" la toa't mo hoi la.nh rung ron ca nguoi.

FYI: all composers of the past in Europe had sponsors who were aristocrats; THIS WAS THE WAY IT WAS!

Chopin of the 19th century had George Sands due to the...heart, but she was also the widow of an aristocrat with money and...castles, and a place in Majorca for Chopin to compose!

Fill me in on further details on my FB, since i can type very fast without research but i can miss something. I am imperfect, yet I am...myself because of..memory!

Rest my case, Bye! I won't return to Do Quy Dan's forum!

DNN

DICH THO APOLLINAIRE

Một chương mục trên social media tiếng Việt đóng góp rất lớn về văn học bằng cách vạch ra bài thơ mà bác Phạm Duy "dịch" thành Muà Thu Chết chính ra là bài thơ nói về tình cha già và con gái rượu chứ không phải là tình yêu trai gái như Phạm Duy đã "xây dựng."  Đóng góp này dựa trên tài liệu văn học sử: rằng Apollinaire làm  bài L'Adieu để tặng Victor Hugo khi con gái ông, Leopoldine, chết đuối.  "nương tử chết theo nước xanh...(Xuân Diệu/Cung Tiến)"  

Nhánh thạch thảo tử sinh cha ngắt vội

Con nhớ chăng muà thu đã chết rồi

Cha con mình chẳng còn dây hội ngộ

(Ôi, giây hội ngộ...)

Mộng trùng lai đứt đọạn ở trên đời

 

Mùi thời gian thấm bờ môi thạch thảo

Đã lià cành, con gái rượu, chia phôi

 

Con nhớ nhé, cánh thời gian thạch thảo

Cha chờ con, muôn kiếp và muôn nơi...

DNN August 21, 2021̣

(dịch thoát để dịch cho hết ý)

Tôi đã dùng "song nghĩa" double meaning với chữ "dây/giây," -- dây tơ, giây phút -- "mùi" -- mùi hương, mùi vị -- "cánh" -- tung cánh, cánh chim, cánh hoa, cánh lá -- "đứt đoạn" -- nhánh, cà̉nh đứt đoạn, cù̀̀ộc đời đứt đoạn, và tôi đem vào bài thơ thành ngữ Việt "con gái rượu" để vị giác hoá tình cà̉m cha già và con gái trẻ, tất cả đến từ văn hoá và ngôn ngữ Việt Nam.

Thật ra khi làm thơ hay phỏng dịch thơ thì cũng thế, tự nhiên chữ tùôn ra, rồi sau đó tôi ngồi phân tích lại như nhà phê bình, chứ chẳng ai làm thơ mà ngồi gò từng chữ như làm toán cà.  Làm nhạc, trái lại có thể là làm toán với trái tim và tai nghe.  

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918):

L’Adieu

J’ai cueilli ce brin de bruyère

L’automne est morte souviens–t’en

Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre

Odeur du temps brin de bruyère

Et souviens–toi que je t’attends

https://poets.org/poet/guillaume-apollinaire

https://poets.org/poet/guillaume-apollinaire 

Theo lời góp ý cuả một độc giả rất ḷị́ch sự và quy tắc, thì bản dịch Mùa Thu Chết là cuả Bùi Giáng chứ không phải Phạm Duy. PD chỉ phổ nhạc mà thôi.   

Me and Schubert's Serenade -- Schubert: king of lieders

 

da lai huong: great song yet all the wrong elements for performing it

one of my favorite Vietnamese oldies!

NN co hat bai nay, hat a capella, range soprano.

https://khonglottaimusic.com/2020/07/11/sao-dem/
https://khonglottaimusic.com/2020/07/11/sao-dem/

RECOMMENDED: A VOICE THAT IS SPECIAL AND DISTINGUISHABLE

Very expressive, totally appropriate choices she made intuitively to deliver the music in the best of emotion, and the voice is immediately recognizable as hers.  Has much more uplifting quality than Khanh Ly's alto/contralto

In this one, with primitive beats, she added a little syncopation here and there. She is natural and that's why she is so good. She makes me like TCS!

compare Khanh Ly's contralto before 1975: 

SUN AND MOON FROM MISS SAIGON

HERE IS MY FAVORITE STAGE LIVE PERFORMANCE, IN 2005 AFTER I HAD LOST THE ABILITY TO PROJECT MY VOICE, BUT STILL SANG (so i sounded like a child). My duet partner was perhaps the best male vocalist I have worked with, and a great pianist as well):

MEMORY OF VIETNAM: the best of Hue, the best forever

Yes, I walked toward Broadway to audition for Miss Saigon when no Vietnamese singer yet made such walk, and I listened exclusively to classical music and jazz, BUT I AM TELLING YOU THIS:  THE FOLLOWING IS THE BEST, BECAUSE THESE TWO SINGERS SANG WITH ALL OF THEIR HEART AND THEY EXPRESSED THE UNIQUENESS OF THEIR CULTURE:  No one can duplicate the following, and they touched their listeners with the soul of their voice, toward the collective soul of Hue, a unique place on earth:  

Thanh Thuy, alto, and then Ha Thanh, soprano range, singing the best of Y Van from the 60s, in their unique esoteric Hue accent...they sing the soul of Hue to us...

Maria Callas and Edith Piaff can sing on top of the world, but they can't sing with a Hue accent and they can't deliver the Hue spirit...to those whose soul is Hue 

NGUOI YEU DAU OI parole singing, solid voice, so expressive and soulful

Ve^`....Death and the Maiden

My heartfelt thanks to chi NMN who devotedly selected and presented the following, unsolicitedly. This brought tears to my eyes humbled me with the love from readership.  This was done not for sale or profit, so it's under the fair use exception to copyright so far as the recorded music of Schubert is concerned. The artworks and images are mine. 

Về -- the way homeward