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Nguyễn Đình Thi

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Nguyễn Đình Thi (20 December 1924 – 18 April 2003) was a famous Vietnamese writer, poet and composer, most notable for writing , the song that became the official daily theme tune of the Voice of Vietnam. Biography He was born on 20 December 1924, in Luang Prabang, Laos. His home, Vũ Thạch Village, is now known as Bà Triệu street, Tràng Tiền ward, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi, Vietnam. His father was an official in the Indochina Post Office, who moved to Laos to work. He came back to Vietnam in 1931, to study in Haiphong City and joined the Youth Rescue nation in 1941. He belonged to the generation of artists who were involved in the French defeat in the 1950s. He wrote essays on philosophy, poetry, music and drama. After the August Revolution (1945), Nguyễn Đình Thi became the general secretary of the national culture association. From 1958 to 1989 he was secretary of the Vietnamese Writers association. From 1995, he was chairman of the Vietnam Union of Literature and Art Association. In 1996, he received the Ho Chi Minh Prize for literature. He died on 18 April 2003, in Hanoi. In 1951 he met the French poet Madeleine Riffaud in Berlin at an international meeting of youth for peace.

Nguyên Lê

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Nguyên Lê (Vietnamese: Lê Thành Nguyên; born 14 January 1959) is a French jazz musician and composer of Vietnamese ancestry. His main instrument is guitar, and he also plays bass guitar and guitar synthesizer. He has released albums as a leader and as a sideman. His 1996 album Tales from Viêt-Nam blends jazz and traditional Vietnamese music. Nguyên Lê has performed with Randy Brecker, Vince Mendoza, Eric Vloeimans, Carla Bley, Michel Portal, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Per Mathisen, Marc Johnson, Peter Erskine, Trilok Gurtu, Paolo Fresu and Dhafer Youssef. In spring 2011 he released Songs of Freedom, an album with cover versions of pop hits from the 1970s. Bands *Nguyên Lê Trio **Nguyên Lê: guitars, arrangements **Michel Alibo: electric bass **Karim Ziad: drums, percussion *Nguyên Lê “Jimi’s back” **Nguyên Lê: guitars, arrangements **Himiko Paganotti: vocals **Romain Labaye: bass guitar **Gergő Borlai: drums *Nguyên Lê “Purple - Celebrating Jimi Hendrix” **Nguyên Lê: guitars **Michel Alibo:bass guitar **Terri Lyne Carrington: drums, vocals **Aïda Khann: vocals **Corin Curschellas: vocals **Me’shell Ndegeocello: bass guitar **Karim Ziad: percussion **Bojan Zulfikarpasic: piano *Huong Thanh

Nguyen Thien Dao

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Nguyễn Thiên Đạo (3 July 1940 – 20 November 2015) was a Vietnamese-French composer who worked in contemporary classical music. He was born in Hanoi, French Indochina, and came to France in 1953, where he studied composition with Olivier Messiaen. He lived in Paris, France. In 1974 he received the Prix Olivier Messiaen for composition awarded by the Fondation Erasmus in the Netherlands and the Prix André Caplet (Académie des Beaux-Arts) in 1984. He died in Paris on 20 November 2015 at the age of 75. Works * Tuyn Lua for chamber ensemble, Festival de Royan 1969. * Koskom for large orchestra, Radio France 1971 * Ba Me Vietnam, for contrabass and twenty instruments, Festival de La Rochelle, 1972 * Mỵ Châu Trọng Thuỷ Opera in Vietnamese - premiere at the Opéra de Paris (Salle Favart), 1979. * Concerto pour piano et orchestre, Rencontres de Metz, 1984 * Symphonie pour pouvoir with Orchestre National de France at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, 1989 * Concerto 1789 (pour sextuor à cordes et orchestre), with the Orchestre National de Lille at the Palais des Congrès of Lille. * Les enfants d’Izieu opéra-oratorio Festival d’Avignon 1994 * Hoa Tâu Hanoi Opera 1995 * Khai Nhac Hanoi Opera 1997