The Christmas concert is set to begin with an orchestra piece called Christmas Festival by Leroy Anderson, an American composer of light music who lived from 1908 to 1975.
Following this will be two pieces, including Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate featuring Pham Khanh Ngoc, a female vocalist who has won First Prize at the Concour Festival in 2019. A chorus from Handel’s Messiah, For Unto Us a Child is Born, will then be played.
Furthermore, German Christmas song Maria Wiegenlied by Max Reger will be performed by soprano soloist Duyen Nguyet.
A Christmas Scherzo by American arranger and keyboard player Don Sebesky and O Holy Night will then be played by Dao Mac, a baritone who plays many roles in HBSO operas, from Papageno in The Magic Flute to Doctor Falk in Die Fledermaus.
Dao Mac will sing It’s beginning to look like Christmas by Michael Buble, a celebrated Canadian composer.
The solo orchestra will return with Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride, before leading into Variations on Jingle Bells led by the HBSO chorus.
Most notably, a group of Korean children residing in Ho Chi Minh City will then bring to the stage a performance Santa Claus is Coming to Town, as well as singing festive songs from the movie Home Alone.
The concert will be conducted by Tran Nhat Minh who has trained in both Russia and Italy and is the chorus master of the HBSO.
Hanoi Collective Orchestra 2016
The Hanoi Collective Orchestra 2016 – part of the Ensembles Asia Orchestra was recently held in Hanoi with the aim of uncovering new and unprecedented ways of making musical instruments, bringing together young people and helping them to get closer to music.
Trang Trinh’s musical dream
Pianist Trinh Mai Trang (also known as Trang Trinh) graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has a long list of international prizes and has all the criteria needed to flourish on the Western stage but she chose to come back to her fatherland to realize the dream of bringing classical music to the masses in her own way.
Hanoi-based Sun Symphony Orchestra skips a season
Olivier Ochanine, the Musical Director and Conductor of the Sun Symphony Orchestra (SSO) has announced that the orchestra suspends its performances from April 1 to the end of August this year.
HBSO hosts concert to mark Beethoven’s birthday
The Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will host a concert celebrating the 250th birthday of Beethoven at the Opera House on June 13.
Vietnam Symphony Orchestra to host online concert amid COVID-19 fears
The Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to hold the “VNSO season opening concert” online through its Facebook and YouTube channels at 8 p.m. on August 26 in order to entertain music lovers amid the country’s ongoing battle with the novel coronavirus epidemic.
