Education needed to preserve traditional music
(VOV) -Preserving traditional music should start from education, said participants in a symposium on the effects of traditional music to human life today, which was held in Hanoi on October 23.
They confirmed traditional music as an indispensable part of Vietnam’s culture.
However, it is losing its identity on account of strange genres of music and.
Even young children today love foreign music because there are no interesting songs of traditional colour, said composer Pham Tuyen.
Other researchers said traditional art performances should be held on a regular basis in the framework of a strategic investment plan to preserve and develop traditional music.
Prof Hoang Chuong emphasized the need to teach traditional music in both family and school.
“Without such education it will disappear sooner or later, he added.