Musician Pham Tuyen and his historic songs

Going back in time from 1975 to December 1972, musician Pham Tuyen wrote the epic song “Hanoi - Dien Bien Phu” - a song that was like a declaration to the world about an indomitable and resilient Hanoi. During the arduous years of the resistance war against the US, his songs such as “The Truong Son Stick”, “How Much I Love the Roads”, “Sticking to the Homeland Sea”... followed the footsteps of Uncle Ho’s soldiers, serving as luggage and a source of encouragement for them to have more faith and motivation in the fight.

And we cannot fail to mention the collection of songs written by musician Pham Tuyen about the Party, the compositions of a person who devoted his whole life to the people and the country, always striving to reach noble ideals. In 1950, the 20-year-old Pham Tuyen graduated from the Tran Quoc Tuan Army Officer School and was assigned to be the captain of the Vietnam Military Academy, the place where "children in military uniforms" study and train. With his outstanding efforts, Pham Tuyen became an example for his comrades and students to follow and was introduced to the Party by comrade Le Chieu, the school's principal, on the occasion of the War Invalids and Martyrs Day, July 27, 1950. That was a very special moment when teacher Pham Tuyen was standing in the classroom lecturing when a French plane came to drop bombs. He guided his students to the bunker to hide and was injured, with bomb fragments embedded in his body, blood flowing profusely.

The musician once confided: “In the early days of the resistance war, my enlightenment about Communism was mainly through a few documents, mostly in French, that some party members passed on to me. But what shone in me was the example of self-sacrifice for a noble ideal of communist soldiers. In the fiercest fire of war, there were party members. I vowed to strive to follow those shining examples.”

The first song Pham Tuyen wrote about the Party was “The Party gave me bright eyes and a bright heart” (1959). It was a narrative piece composed from the verses of Louis Aragon (French Communist poet), translated by To Huu. The song had a heroic and lyrical tone, passionate and respectful, spreading a belief in the communist ideal. This was not an easy-to-sing popular song, but a classic song in both music and lyrics, yet it was quite popular among the youth and students at that time, perhaps because the song expressed the feelings of young intellectuals.

During the first days of peace in the North, in the spring of 1960, the musician wrote the song “The Party has given us a whole spring” based on the idea of Paul Vaillant Couturier, a French communist soldier: “Communism is the youth of the world”. The song was immediately spread widely, permeating the pure and sincere life, blending with the aspirations for spring and the belief in the Party of the masses. Musician Nguyen Thuy Kha once said: When he was still in the army, marching from Eastern Truong Son to Western Truong Son, at night he stopped at a small hut in Laos, by chance he met a unit of our army escorting a group of puppet prisoners who were also staying there. That night a cultural festival took place around a forest fire, our soldiers sang the song “The Party has given us a whole spring” which surprised and touched even the puppet prisoners.

Many artists were moved and inspired to create when listening to the songs about the Party written by musician Pham Tuyen. For example, the blind painter Le Duy Ung, a war invalid, is famous for his paintings and sculptures of Uncle Ho. Le Duy Ung was wounded and became blind in both eyes right at the gates of Saigon on the day the South was liberated. In a letter to musician Pham Tuyen, he expressed his admiration: "Listening to your music, I suddenly see many colors of life shine brightly!"

In the late 70s to early 80s of the last century, our country fell into a period of crisis with severe consequences of war, difficulties and shortages, weaknesses in leadership experience from wartime to peacetime, the obsolescence of the subsidy mechanism, and a number of degenerate party members and cadres, causing many people to lose faith in the Party and the revolution... At that time, in 1979, musician Pham Tuyen received a six-eight poem by musician and poet Diep Minh Tuyen, expressing his thoughts and sincere heart towards the Party: "Pink as the color of dawn/ Red as the color of my blood, my heart/ The golden hammer and sickle shining in the sky/ Is the hope shining in my heart...". And so musician Pham Tuyen set to music so that those lyrics could be sung, creating more faith for the people in difficult times, and moving forward firmly. The song "Color of the Flag I Love" with its passionate, bright melody has the power to move the listeners' souls, contributing to arousing people's love and trust in the Party.

The year 2025, with many great anniversaries of the country, is also the year musician Pham Tuyen turns 95 years old and receives the noble title of 75 years of Party membership. Despite his old age and weak health, he still follows information on television, radio, newspapers... with the hope that the country will rise up to welcome new opportunities, the people's lives will become better and better, prosperous and prosperous. And his lifelong song - "Like having Uncle Ho on the great victory day", born exactly 50 years ago, until today is still an affirmation of national pride, of the strength of Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh to the whole world.

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