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MEMORABLE MUSIC: A TOAST TO THE NEW YEAR WITH PHẠM ĐÌNH CHƯƠNG’S “A CELEBRATORY GLASS OF WINE”

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Happy New Year! Chúc mừng năm mới! Another year, another holiday song… Phạm Đình Chương’s “A Celebratory Glass of Wine” was one of my favorite holiday songs for the Lunar New Year when I was a kid. It was the last song on Tiếng Tơ Đồng Xuân (The Silken Strings of Spring), a Tết album […]

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MEMORABLE MUSIC, TẾT EDITION: MIGRATION AND NOSTALGIA IN PHẠM ĐÌNH CHƯƠNG’S “SPRINGTIME IN EXILE” (“XUÂN THA HƯƠNG”)

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Happy New Year! Chúc mừng năm mới! One of the holiday songs I remember my family listening to at Tết when I was a teenager was Phạm Đình Chương’s “Springtime in Exile” (“Xuân tha hương,” 1956). Tết, or the lunar new year, is the most important holiday of the year for most ethnic Vietnamese, regardless

MEMORABLE MUSIC, TẾT EDITION: MIGRATION AND NOSTALGIA IN PHẠM ĐÌNH CHƯƠNG’S “SPRINGTIME IN EXILE” (“XUÂN THA HƯƠNG”) Read More »