Orchestra offers festive cheer

Seasonal spirit: Clarinetist Dao Nhat Quang and the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra will perform music by Mozart at the Opera House today to usher in Christmas. — VNS Photo Duc Ngoc

HCM CITY — The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra will perform a special concert tonight featuring famous choral and music pieces to welcome the festive season.

The concert will open with British composer John Rutter's Magnificat for choir and soprano solo accompanied by an orchestra and a piano.

Rutter's inspiration for the piece was an ancient canticle in Medieval Latin.

It is full of energetic, shortened rhythms and strong melodies that evoke a celebratory and rejoicing character.

South Korean soprano Cho Hae-ryong will render Magnificat accompanied by pianist Nguyen Anh Vu and the HBSO Choir.

Tran Nhat Minh, a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Music Conservatory in Moscow, will be the chorusmaster. The show will continue with music by Tchaikovsky and Mozart.

The orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March in B-flat Minor, op.31, also known by the French title Marche Slave.

The show will end with clarinetist Dao Nhat Quang performing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, K622 in A Major together with the orchestra.

Tran Vuong Thach, the director of the HBSO, will wield the baton for the concert.

He has worked with several prestigious orchestras in France, Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scotland, and Spain.

The show will begin at 8pm tonight at the Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, District 1. Tickets, costing VND150,000 to 200,000, are available at the box office. — VNS

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Japan and Vietnam symphony orchestras Hanoi

Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (TMSO) and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra will hold a concert under the baton of Japanese conductor Honna Tetsuji at the Hanoi Opera House on November 7, reports VietnamPlus.

The performance will feature famous pieces of both countries, including Toyama Yuzo’s Rhapsody for Orchestra and Rhapsody Vietnam by Do Hong Quan, Chairman of the Vietnam Musicians’ Association. The second part of the show will have a performance of P. I. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor op. 64.

The leading Japanese orchestra then will give two shows in Hanoi on November 9 and HCMC on November12.

Japanese violinist, Tamaki Kawakubo, will join TMSO for these performances. She will play the Violin Concerto in D major op. 77 and the Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 68 of J. Brahms. Kawakubo began violin studies at the age of five in Los Angeles , California , the U.S. She won the grand prize at the 2001 Pablo de Sarasate International Violin Competition and shared the silver medal, the highest award at the 2002 International Tchaikovsky Competition.

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