Three weeks...

Three weeks left and it feels like we are going to leave tomorrow. The 25 of Mars we will ave a short concert at the Hanoi academy of music, we will play some tunes we've learnt during this trip and maybe one or two swedish tunes. There will be some cheo together, I will play a few of my tuong tunes and Pia will sing some ca tru together with our ca tru club friends. This sunday(15/3) the Swedish radioprogram Folke played some Vietnamese and interviewed me on the phone from Hanoi, it turned out ok you can hear it here. I'm getting more and more curious about tuong, part due to my very enthusiastic teacher and part, I guess, because it is so hard to get any meaningfull information on it. I've asked my friend Quang to follow me to my friday lesson next week and help me translate, it will be interesting to be able to communicate with Khanh without gestures and music. Before I leave I will try to get the nhac hieu recordings from the musicology department. It probably not a problem but they said that they would give me the recordings one month ag and nothing happened yet, one more phonecall can't hurt. My plans for an article with Hue are on their way. I've made three one hour interviews with her and written a very short overview on Ca tru and teaching in the past. Now I'm transcribing the interview and after that I will talk with her again to see if I have got her right. Hue will write a summary on ca tru and she should be able to explain the music better than me. We wont be finished before I leave but It should be done before the end of this term anyway.