Leaders of Quang Tri province and many tourists and people attended the program.

Trinh Cong Son's music night "Song of Peace" was directed by Journalist Vo Nguyen Thuy, Director of Quang Tri Radio and Television Station and Mr. Nguyen Trung Truc, representative of musician Trinh Cong Son's family. The program gathered many famous artists: Cam Van, Quang Dung, Duc Tuan...; the presence of singer Trinh Vinh Trinh, musician Trinh Cong Son's sister; Korean violinist Jmi Ko, American singer Kyo York and little Cindy...

Peace is the common voice and dream of mankind; the ultimate destination of patriotism, national spirit, compassion and boundless friendship. The voice praising peace is truly meaningful when it comes from Vietnam, a country that has been fighting tirelessly for thousands of years to protect its sovereignty and protect the basic human right: the right to live in peace.

That voice is even more meaningful when it comes from lands that have suffered much pain from war like Quang Tri. The program is the voice of tolerance, the healing to forget all old wounds and the desire for a tomorrow of development together of all humanity.

Singer Trinh Vinh Trinh, sister of musician Trinh Cong Son, performs at the music night.

Musician Trinh Cong Son, a son of the land of Binh Tri Thien, is not only known for his love songs that moved generations of music lovers, but is also an artist of peace.

Through music, he spoke the voice of human destiny, of the desire for peace from the old days, to the new days full of tolerance and purity of love for humanity.

Vietnam in general, and the people of Quang Tri in particular, are people who love peace very much. Trinh Cong Son's music night "Peace Song" is a way to use artistic language, under the romantic and philosophical lens of musician Trinh Cong Son's music to convey that meaning to the audience.

The program consists of 3 parts. Part 1 has the theme "Let me go and raise up peace". The war past passes through Trinh Cong Son's music like a picture full of reality but also full of love. There, we see the suffering of human fate: small, miserable in the days of bombs and bullets. But the music of the talented musician Trinh Cong Son is not only that. Even in those anti-war songs, we clearly see the desire for peace in every verse.

The desire for peace is the voice of the Vietnamese people in particular and of all humanity in general: "Let me go rebuild the love story, Let me go raise peace...".

Performance by musician Tran Manh Tuan and his son

Part 2 has the theme “Love song of peace”. Musician Trinh Cong Son considered peace as an inevitable thing coming from the cultural identity, the identity of the Vietnamese people, sowing in people’s hearts a mysterious love without borders. Peace is the same, it is the simple, natural, innocent desire of each person. After the days of aspiration “Waiting to see the homeland shine” is a peaceful Vietnam, beautiful, simple and sacred. Peace is as beautiful as the love songs of love for the homeland, love for humanity, love for people.

Part 3 has the theme “Let’s love each other”. When the whole world comes to Quang Tri to pray and praise peace. Peace is regardless of skin color, nationality, gender, generation… together towards a bright future of love, friendship, and care for future generations. “Let’s love each other” is the meaningful message of this program, for everyone.

At the music night, the audience enjoyed famous works by musician Trinh Cong Son: “Waiting to see the bright homeland”, “O Ly mother”, “Mother's folk song”, “What do we see tonight”, “Please give me”, “Old love”, “White summer”, “Hey em co nho”, “Con tuoi nao cho em”, “Hanh pilgrim tren doi cao”...

Singer Cam Van performs

Speaking at the music night, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Tri Province Hoang Nam, Head of the Organizing Committee of the 2024 Peace Festival, emphasized that the French Encyclopedia Le Million affirmed: "Trinh Cong Son raised his poetic voice that bombs and bullets could never extinguish"; and Trinh's music has "permeated people's hearts like a watering stream" as Van Cao, a great figure of Vietnamese music, commented, and that sweet stream is flowing forever with time.

Musician Trinh Cong Son has had many relationships and ties with Quang Tri. His famous song “Nguoi me O Ly” was written about a Quang Tri mother he met during the years when the country was still at war. It can be said that this piece of music is one of the musical monuments of the image of a Vietnamese mother who is patient, devoted, and sacrifices everything for her husband, children, and family, and always wishes for the very simple things that peace will bring to the lives of every Vietnamese citizen.

After the country was reunified, musician Trinh Cong Son came to Quang Tri to help overcome the consequences of war and rebuild his homeland. In his memoir “Nam Thach Han in the early days of March” written in 1978, he had a premonition of Quang Tri’s bright future: “Digging a canal, opening a stream of water is to change the entire landscape of nature and human life. The image of a canal with emerald green water flashed through my mind, then gave way to an unforgettable nostalgia for the people who were mixing their sweat with the many strange things that were still growing here.”

More than 40 years since musician Trinh Cong Son arrived in Quang Tri, his premonition has come true. Quang Tri province has truly revived, transformed and is growing, rising above the ashes of war. Musician Trinh Cong Son's feelings and wishes for a bright future for Quang Tri are resonating in a common aspiration. That is to build Quang Tri, a land that suffered much pain and loss during the war, into a place where gratitude, love, compassion and the desire for eternal peace converge.

This is one of the 5 "key" programs of the 2024 Peace Festival.

According to nhandan.vn