Unique hybrid music to daze HCMC tonight
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A music show entitled “The ever-green desert” by composer Le Van Tuan will take place at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera Theater today at 20:00 at No. 7 Cong Truong Lam Son Street in District 1.
This will show off a new kind of music called CROR – the combination of four different genres: classic, romantic, opera and rock developed by Tuan.
According to the composer, the four genres: classical, romantic (Renaissance period), opera (17th century), and rock (20th century) come from different eras with hundreds of years’ difference, so the combination is not easy and will create a strange feeling in the audience.
In CROR music, classical is understood as something that brings you back to the original sound of human, romantic as the romance that can only be achieved when there is true freedom in your soul while opera is the expression of operatic emotions in a modern way.
They require performers to indulge themselves in the characters, and rock, unlike the typical understanding of rock as fast rhythms, here will be presented as the beats of our breaths and the speed of blood running through our veins.
CROR was first coined in 2005 and have been patented by Vietnam’s Copyright Office.
So far 9 CROR symphonies have been composed with hundreds of songs.
In 2010, Tuan released his debut album with 8 tracks, and in the CROR concert this January 27, he will introduce his second album with another 8 CROR pieces.
Non-key, non-rhythm, and non-melody
Highly appreciative of Tuan’s work in CROR music, singer Quoc Tru, holder of the honorable title Excellent Artist and former head of the vocal music department of HCMC Conservatory of Music, said, “Tuan’s music is non-key, non-rhythm, and non-melody”.
It’s spontaneous. This type of music requires performers to have a certain musical level, and those who are amateurs will ‘tremble’ dealing with this music. I have listened to and really enjoyed his music, with no difficulty, but I think it requires time for it to be welcomed by the public.”
Talking about his music, Tuan emphasized its ‘for a united world’ purpose, “CROR is an appeal for people to get closer to each other, to sympathize with the miserable, to lend them a hand.”
