Le Thuong

Lihat lebih banyakJelajahi sheet piano oleh Le Thuong di Zen Virtual Piano. Lê Thương was a composer whom Dân Trí reports was born in 1914 on Hàm Long street in Hanoi, with the civil name Ngô Đình Hộ. His parents were traditional-music artists. He lost his mother at the age of 9 and grew up with the care of his grandmother in a Catholic family. His musical talent came partly from an innate gift and partly from the influence of childhood days at a religious school. Parents who were traditional-music artists, beside childhood at a religious school, may suggest that more than one musical world surrounded his early years. Lê Thương wrote his first song, “Trưng Vương,” at 22, in 1936, and Lưu Hữu Phước introduced it in the newspaper Lên Đàng. His main trade, however, was teaching: he was a history and geography teacher and for a time taught at several private high schools in Saigon. In 1945, he joined the resistance against the French at Bình Đài in Bến Tre and was then arrested by French troops. A first song at 22, beside a working life in classrooms, may point to music and teaching running side by side in Lê Thương’s life. Lê Thương was also the author of the three-song cycle Hòn vọng phu. Phạm Duy wrote in his memoirs that Lê Thương was very free-flowing in making poetry and music, yet lived a very simple life. Dân Trí says Thằng Cuội was written by Lê Thương around 1946 to 1954, and that its strength lies in the word “thằng,” an everyday, plain way of addressing someone, which he dared to put in the song. Dân Trí adds that he used personification, so that things in a child’s world seem to have souls, and even a cricket knows how to sing xẩm. A song from the years 1946 to 1954 that turns a cricket into a singer, beside Phạm Duy’s memoir remark about a simple life, may hint at plain everyday speech and imagination existing together in Lê Thương’s work. Together with Nguyễn Xuân Khoát, Lê Thương is affirmed as one of the first composers to open the stream of children’s music, and he was a representative composer of pre-war Vietnamese music. For a time, he and the composer Lê Cao Phan ran the children’s band Măng Non, which broadcast fairy tales, folk songs and children’s songs. In 1970, Lê Thương made the program “Phát thanh học đường” on Saigon Radio with Lê Cao Phan, Hùng Lân and Trần Hữu Đức, and he composed more than 100 children’s songs. A band for children in his earlier years, beside a school radio program in 1970, may suggest children’s music stayed within his work across many years. Văn Cao also acknowledged the influence of Lê Thương and a musical style rooted in traditional Vietnamese music. A first song in 1936, beside a school radio program in 1970, may point to a songwriting life that spanned several decades.

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