US, Vietnamese Children’s Choirs to Take Stage in Hanoi
Vietnamese and American children will join together to sing in a single choir at the Hanoi Opera House next Monday. 
Fifty boys and girls of Vietnamese Children’s Choir, under the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet and 50 boys of the Keystone State Boychoir (KBS) from Philadelphia in the US will sing classical and folk songs of both Western and Vietnamese cultures.
The program, under the batons of American and Vietnamese conductors Joseph Fitzmartin and Pham Hong Hai will feature Ave Maria, Fill The World With Music and Nguoi O Dung Ve (Please Stay, Don’t Go).
The concert is part of the Keystone State Boychoir’s Asian tour, which takes in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia, to mark KBS’s fifth anniversary.
The program is sponsored by the US Embassy and the Vietnam-US Friendship Association.
Founded in 2001 and based in Philadelphia, the KBS consists of 110 boys between the ages of eight and 18 from diverse economic, racial and ethnic backgrounds.
It has performed on concert tours to South Africa, Brazil, Canada and Japan.
Soure: Thanh Nien News
