Yesterday Hue, Esbjörn and I sat in my room, drinking tea and talking about music and musicians, about teaching traditional music and about the Thang Long Ca Tru Club. The more Esbjörn and I hear about the Club's work, the more fascinated and impressed we get. Yesterday we got to understand that Hue actually has a curriculum for the Club, even if it's not printed. The Club seems to work as a well organized school with explicit goals and plans for the students musical and technical progress that are methodically structured.
We think that this is something that more people should hear about. It could work as a great inspiration for traditional musicians and teachers all around the world to read about the Club and so we decided that the three of us should write an article about the Thang Long Ca Tru Club. This will also be very useful for Hue as she will participate in a conference in Australia in the end of April that will deal with the subject of teaching traditional music.
In the process of understanding how the Club works, Esbjörn and I will also learn to play some Ca tru. I will sing and Esbjörn will play Trong Chau. We started this morning. Hue and three of her students came over and I learnt the first two lines of Bac Phan and Esbjörn got to beat the drum.
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