Send love in ca tru melody
(Baonghean) - A friend of poetry and literature, he often pours his heart into his writings with a sharp and delicate pen. Not a professional poet or writer, he is an officer of the Forestry - Forestry sector, but has a deep love for art, especially Ca Tru...
SBorn in 1948 in Dien Hoa (Dien Chau) - the land considered the cradle of the art of Ca Tru in Nghe An, since childhood, poetry and ancient melodies, clappers, and the deep, elegant rhythms of Ca Tru have filled the soul of the young boy Cao Xuan Thuong.
Having a love for poetry and literature, although he did not choose to pursue an artistic career, throughout his time working in the forestry industry, Mr. Thuong was still passionate about composing and making friends with many artists. People also know him as a multi-talented person, able to play musical instruments: the two-stringed fiddle, the flute, the stone lute, and compose plays, operas, and ca tru...
Mr. Thuong is absorbed in playing the stone guitar.
Considered a type of chamber and scholarly music of the Vietnamese, ca tru is a wonderful combination of lyrics and singing combined with musical instruments: clappers, stone zithers, and chau drums... Although called for "revival", in reality, ca tru still lacks a team of good and creative composers. In most poetry festivals, ca tru is sung over and over again with some familiar melodies of famous writers of the past... With the thought of needing new ca tru songs, in 2002, Mr. Thuong began composing ca tru. According to him, composing ca tru is not difficult, but the writer must have a sincere love for it. "Composing ca tru also has rules, but not as strict as Tang poetry. The only thing is, ca tru has a romantic and romantic nature. Therefore, it requires the creator to have a truly romantic soul" - Mr. Thuong said.
At Vietnamese Poetry Day
...Here Lam Giang waves beat with homesickness
Look at Hong Linh clouds drifting, love from afar
Beyond the miles, the poem is still filled with tears
Hundreds of years of writing and research are not in vain
Where is the title, where is the zither, where is the tears, where is the stringed instrument?
Where is the main messenger, the greedy one, the empty one...the color...
In the near future, he plans to publish a collection of Ca Tru poems for those who love poetry and Ca Tru. "I compose for fun, to beautify my own soul, not to try to become a professional poet or writer," he smiled gently.
In the quiet space of Dien Hoa village, Mr. Thuong played us a piece of Ca Tru on an old zither.
Linh Phuong
