The advantage of Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper is the Mai Vang Award, where over the past 30 years many singing talents have been honored and voted for by readers.
Currently working at VTV9, musician Cham Hong Giang is an editor involved in many cultural and artistic activities across the country. He sent a song to participate in the campaign.
Reporter: From what emotion did you compose the song "Beautiful through the flower seasons" to participate in the song composition campaign "The country is full of joy" of the Newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong?
- Musician CHAM HONG GIANG: For me, Ho Chi Minh City always holds a special place, a place that gives me many opportunities to work, compose and contribute. I am very grateful to this city and consider it the place where I send many humane messages in my musical compositions. That is why every street corner, road, tree line and person here... always brings me new, familiar and close emotions. And that is also the motivation for me to write the song "Beautiful through the flower seasons".
When the melody of this song was not yet complete, I heard the echo from the music exchange programs that the Lao Dong Newspaper had organized, to encourage new compositions about the city, so I took the time to complete the song and submitted this song to the Lao Dong Newspaper's contest with the desire to contribute to the success of the campaign, helping to spread my brainchild.
Musician Cham Hong Giang and a male singing group in a music program to celebrate April 30, 2024 in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo provided by the character)
What does this song mean in your songwriting career?
- Like other authors, I love and cherish all my brainchildren equally. But perhaps this song is a little more special because I rarely write about the topic of Ho Chi Minh City and the propaganda genre. I am grateful to this city, so I want to contribute a few notes to express my feelings for the place that gave me a meaningful youth.
.To write about the city, besides the advantages of working at VTV9, what other good conditions do you encounter for writing? To write about Ho Chi Minh City, what is the most difficult thing for you?
- After the symphony poem "Echoing forever the song of the city named after Him" won the highest prize in the instrumental music category of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee in 2020 in the music and theater composition contest to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Liberation of the South, this can be said to be the second work I wrote about the city named after Uncle Ho. This is a difficult topic because there have been so many good works by senior musicians written about this place. That is why I try to make my work not duplicate, have novelty and have its own unique features.
Although the city does not have as many flowers as Da Lat or other flower regions, the city has a very special flower season, which is the end of the year when the streets are filled with flowers from all over the country. That flower season brings joy and hope for a more successful, warmer, and more peaceful new year, and it seems that the city becomes more beautiful with each flower season. From then on, I decided to use that verse as the main idea for my song "Beautiful Through the Flower Seasons".
What is your most memorable memory of Ho Chi Minh City?
- I have many unforgettable memories of a place associated with my youth; such as walking with friends and relatives on Nguyen Hue walking street in the evening to watch the sparkling lights and bustling people passing by, enjoying the bustling music notes creating a lively atmosphere; or the feeling of comfort when enjoying delicious street food, watching people laughing and talking happily to feel the hustle and bustle, dynamism and diverse culture of this city; or going and feeling the humanity of the people here for each other through the zero-dong rice shops, the free neighborhood from medicine, car repair, to burial...
It is this warm human love that has given me great faith in life and I have put it into my song through the lyrics "full human love, forever shining with joy, gently saying love, the city named after you".
To promote writings about Ho Chi Minh City, what do you suggest to the organizers?
- As a journalist, I understand the difficulty of making a work go "viral" and promotion is extremely necessary for each work to reach the public after its release. Use them regularly, give them a living environment, and good notes will naturally fly high.
What do you expect from the songwriting campaign "The Country is Full of Joy" of the Lao Dong Newspaper?
- When participating, I hope the campaign will be successful and widespread. From the results, I will send to the music life of the city as well as the whole country good works, valuable in both artistic and ideological aspects. In my opinion, selecting and printing a book with 50 songs selected from the campaign will be a useful information channel, with a QR code at the bottom of each page so that viewers can scan and listen to the song.
In addition, the advantage of the Newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong is the Mai Vang Award, where over the past 30 years, many singing talents have been honored and voted by readers. They will accompany and promote the new compositions of this movement. I congratulate the achievements that the movement is aiming for, which is the most meaningful gift of the Newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and the reunification of the country.
The songwriting campaign with the theme "The Country is Full of Joy" was organized by the Lao Dong Newspaper to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025). To date, the Organizing Committee has received 160 songs from 122 authors.
The final round will take place in February 2025 and the award ceremony is scheduled for April 2025. The organizers have posted the works on the newspaper's social media platforms to introduce them to the public. The organizers will release a collection of 50 representative songs out of a total of 160 songs by 122 authors participating in the campaign.
Source: https://nld.com.vn/nhac-si-cham-hong-giang-thanh-pho-co-nhung-mua-hoa-tuyet-dep-196250218205250589.htm
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