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Ascending Dragon Music Festival
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The Ascending Dragon Music Festival is the largest cultural exchange in history between the United States and Vietnam, celebrating the 1000th anniversary of the founding of the City of Hanoi.
Highlights of the Festival in the U.S. and Vietnam include:
• Seven concerts in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California
• Five concerts in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City
• Four commissions for new work by four composers-in-residence Kurt Rohde and Alexandra du Bois of the United States, and Phạm Minh Thành and Vu Nhật Tân of Vietnam.
• The U.S. and Asian premieres of On Conversing with Paradise, the newest work by 101 year old American composer Elliott Carter
• 17 American premieres including works by Vietnamese expatriate composers Tôn Thất Tiết and Nguyễn Thiện Ðạo
• Side-by-side performances by U.S. and Vietnamese musicians
Ascending dragon Music festival in Vietnam
Between March 10-21, 2010:
• The Ascending Dragon Music Festival, part of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Hanoi, will be performed by musicians from Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music and Vietnamese musicians and faculty from the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi
• Performances including numerous Asian premieres will take place at the Vietnam National Academy of Music, the Hanoi Opera House and the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory Concert Hall
• World premiere performances of newly commissioned works by Alexandra du Bois, Kurt Rohde, Phạm Minh Thành, and Vu Nhật Tân will take place at the Hanoi Opera House on Friday, March 19, 2010
• On Conversing with Paradise by 101 year old American composer Elliott Carter will receive its Asian premiere at the Hanoi Opera House on March 19, 2010
• Other special Festival community events will take place at locations to be announced throughout Hanoi
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Other news
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 Southwest Chamber Music takes on Vietnam
(28/02/2010)
Vietnam Institute of Musicology hosts musical exchange
(06/11/2009)
The meeting night of two symphony orchestras
(10/09/2009)
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