An American Looks At Phạm Duy
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Many people have written at length about the music of Phạm Duy, and I hope, in time, to add my own (English language) contribution to such studies. Here I wish merely to set down some brief reflections that occurred to me after attending the recent October 30th musical celebration of the composer’s 84th birthday in the offices of Người Việt. This program, it goes without saying, was of the highest possible musical quality, with a fine and varied group of singers, and excellent, fastidious scoring and instrumental work throughout; and the second half of the program, devoted to pieces completed during the past year, was an astonishing demonstration of the composer’s undiminished creative vitality as he enters his mid-eighties.
