Hong Nhung sublimates in Trinh Cong Son's music night

March 12, 2023 09:46

Hong Nhung danced enthusiastically on stage singing Trinh Cong Son's music, it seemed like a joke, but the audience of the Who is Bong? music night on the evening of March 11 at the Hanoi Opera House was extremely excited.

"If my Son were here, he would be happy."

This time she sang Trinh's music in the blue-jazz style with a French influence. During her lifetime, from the first days she met Hong Nhung, witnessing the impromptu moment in the studio when Ms. Bong sang the last part of a Trinh song in this way, the musician was "very happy", hoping to be able to do a music night in that style.

It is not just Vietnamese people playing Trinh's music for Vietnamese people, but talented international artists who do not know Vietnamese from France, Poland, Canada... performing Trinh's music in a new, rich and energetic way.

Listening to Trinh this time, the audience feels that his music is still simple and plain (which is why it has lived in such a wide and lasting world), but it can also be lively, rich, and layered, if the artist who arranges and performs knows and is talented enough to exploit it.

*Except for Hong Nhung, all Vietnamese and international artists participating in the music night wore ao dai.*

Not to mention the black and white stage images, the creative lighting art without using colored lights, the music itself in the live concert is an elaborate installation.

"The music night was wonderful, from the new performance of Hong Nhung as well as the band. I think that if my brother Son was here, he would be happy, just like us", singer Trinh Vinh Trinh - musician Trinh Cong Son's sister.

*Singer Trinh Vinh Trinh and her sister attended Hong Nhung's music night and felt very excited and moved.*

The Hanoi Opera House auditorium last night was filled with long applause and enthusiastic cheers rarely seen in Trinh's music audiences.

And emotional tears for the borderless beauty of Trinh Cong Son's music, and for the sacred, precious love between Bong and musician Trinh.

That special sentiment was fully honored in the music night, when the audience saw Ms. Bong sing "Ha trang", "Diem xua", "Ru mai ngan nam", "Ru doi di nhe", "Vet luan tram", "Biet dau nguon guoi", "Nhuong canh vac bay", "Roi nhu da ngo ngo"... of "nguoi xua" with a full heart of a woman who has tasted all the salty, sweet, spicy, sour, bitter things in life, calmly and cheerfully looking back at the precious things in her life that turned out to be with her, nurturing her for the rest of her life.

*Hong Nhung knelt on stage to sing, as if kneeling before the music, the love of Trinh Cong Son, before the love of the audience.*

*And sit down on the stage and sing close to your audience.*

The "duet" between Miss Bong, who was in her early 20s and had just met musician Trinh Cong Son, and the current Miss Bong - a woman who has experienced all the ups and downs of life - the song Remembering Autumn in Hanoi made the audience both emotional and excited.

Because at the same time they taste both the purity and innocence of a twenty-year-old girl who is happy with a great musician, and the tenderness, depth, and passion of a woman who has been bathed in the water of time.

*Moments of sublimation with artist Nguyen Le*

Hong Nhung - the ripe rice flower bows its head

The "old" charm of Hong Nhung is also very different from the usual, not more calm and quiet, but the opposite. The live concert Who is Bong? witnessed middle-aged Bong dancing, swaying, "floating" with the music as if it was not Bong, and certainly not Trinh's music night.

She danced freely and 'wildly' on stage. The freedom and wildness of a woman who has a taste for life completely knows how to master her wildness and confidently let go of the reins.

*Hong Nhung and Clara Simonovier sing the song "Like a Flying Heron" in Vietnamese and French.*

Let it go, be wild, but be very humble, bowing to all colleagues and especially bowing to the audience. During the concert, Hong Nhung spent two times introducing each participating artist, honoring them as if this was a collective work and everyone contributed equally, not just her own concert.

Every time she introduced her colleagues or thanked the audience, she bowed very low. She went to the musicians to sing with them, she sat down on the stage and sang so close to the audience that the audience felt like the singer was sitting on the steps of their house singing to them.

*Hong Nhung performs intimately with saxophone artist Quyen Thien Dac*

There were times when Hong Nhung knelt on stage to sing. She knelt before the beauty of music, the beauty of Trinh Cong Son's love for her, and appreciated the love of the audience for her over the years.

Not only does she sing well, with the high, endless range of a diva's voice, she also composes songs as well as any professional musician.

Even though she only introduced two of her new compositions (which she humbly and humorously called "made up"): My Dream and Simple Beauty, it was enough to surprise the audience. They were absolutely not a bonus gift or a promotional gift of Trinh's music night.

According to Tuoi Tre