Credited on the record as Morgenrood Rotterdam zingt o.l.v. Ton Beckers.
Vietnam-lied
1973 · Morgenrood 6810 184 · Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Artist
- Morgenrood Rotterdam
- Credited on the record as
- Morgenrood Rotterdam zingt o.l.v. Ton Beckers
- Title
- Vietnam-lied
- Release
- Voor Vietnam
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Morgenrood # 6810 184
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Dutch
- Country
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Songwriter
- Gilius van Bergeyk, Piet Bossers
- Genre
- Western Classical Music · Choral
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
Dutch / Netherlands, protest
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Morgenrood 6810 184 (Stemra; stereo-mono LP; Productie R.A.Z. Morgenrood ten bate van het Medisch Comité Nederland-Vietnam), "Morgenrood-Rotterdam zingt voor Vietnam": the Rotterdam socialist choir Morgenrood (mixed choir, solo voice Rien Kroon) with its own wind band under Ton Beckers; recorded by Gilius van Bergeyk and Bob Zimmerman; typed lyric insert. The sleeve note: the war that has ravaged Vietnam for more than twenty years has entered a new stage now that the Americans, through Vietnamese resistance and the pressure of mass movements, have been forced to withdraw from Indochina (→ 1973); everyone who protested the American aggression must now support the reconstruction, and this record is one such means — its songs and instrumental pieces express the performers' commitment to solidarity and a new society without exploitation, the wiping-out of villages and towns, or napalm. Side…
About the artist
Morgenrood Rotterdam - Rotterdam socialist choir and wind ensemble (R.A.Z. Morgenrood), conducted by Ton Beckers, singing the Eisler–Brecht repertoire in Dutch.
Themes
Anti-War · Protest · Peace · Solidarity
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]