Fun Lessons: Performing Modern Music with Gongs

We attended an extracurricular class at Son Hoa Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities (Phu Yen) with a gong performance and Arabic dance. The students performed movements very clearly and confidently when performing modern music with their traditional gongs.

So Minh Linh (8B grade student of the school) shared: "Since I first entered the school, my teacher has taught me how to play gongs. After 2 years, I can not only play gongs in local festivals but also use this instrument to play modern music. Participating in local music lessons always makes us excited and happy."

Students practice playing gongs

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Ba Thanh Quang (8B grade student) said: "Before, when I saw the village elders and older people playing gongs, I was very curious and admired. When I went to school, I was taught by the teacher, and the village elders came to directly guide and teach me how to play gongs, I was extremely proud and moved. Now I can confidently join the gong team with the adults in the village."

According to Mr. Nguyen Huu Thien, who directly guides and teaches local music at Son Hoa District Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities, after many years of training, most male students from grades 7 to 9 can confidently and skillfully play gongs, and can serve in community festivals. In addition to traditional ritual gongs, the school hopes that students can apply Western melodies to make gongs a more popular musical instrument, which can be used for modern music as well as enrich the spiritual life of ethnic minority students. In the long term, the school will continue to mobilize social resources to invest in and perfect this set of traditional musical instruments to teach culture to students more comprehensively and effectively.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/nhung-tiet-hoc-thu-vi-bieu-dien-nhac-hien-dai-bang-cong-chieng-185231103001741366.htm