PANO – The Phu Tho provincial People’s Committee on January 18th reviewed its training courses for Xoan singing in Viet Tri city, in the framework of the program “Preserving, training and practicing Phu Tho Xoan singing”.
The courses from November 10th, 2013 to January 12th, 2015, drew the participation of 62 trainees from four original Xoan singing wards, namely Phu Duc, Kim Doi, Thet and An Thai, of the city’s Kim Duc and Phuong Lau communes.
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During the courses, trainees learnt main features of Xoan singing from musical researcher Dang Hoanh Loan along with fifteen artisans.
To preserve this music genre and to remove it from the UNESCO protection for endangered cultural intangible heritages, the province has associated with the Institute for Vietnamese Music to collect the Xoan songs and digitalize them for research and the training in the coming time.
* One form of the ca tru (ceremonial songs) singing, the hat cua dinh (singing at communal houses in villages) has just been restored by artisans from the Hai Phong Ceremonial Singing Club together with folk art researchers, and performed at the communal house of Hang Kenh.
According to researcher Bui Trong Hien, this was the oldest form of ca tru singing which fell into oblivion half a century ago in the city.
Nguyen Phu De, aged 92, is an artisan who made the most contributions to restore five forms of this singing.
Translated by Trung Thanh
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