Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Getting started


We are on our fourth day in Hanoi and we have had our first lessons. Today we'll hopefully recieve a schedule for the rest of our stay. Olof has made his first interview and I have read Miranda Aranas book. I will probably write more about the book later today as I will stay at the hotel coughing today instead of playing the flute. 
Yesterday we visited a Ca Tru performance in a village just outside Hanoi, it was our Ca Tru "maestro", Mai Hue (the woman on the picture), who brought us there together with one of her Dan Day students. It was very nice, almost all of the musicans were children from the village trying to learn the genre. Some of them didn't look that enthusiastic but most looked like they were having fun. According to Hue most of them started to play Ca Tru just a few months ago and in that case it was very impressing. Some time during our stay we will visit Hue's Ca Tru club in Hanoi, it will be interesting to see and hear what have happened since last year. 

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