Morgenrood Rotterdam

Credited on the record as Morgenrood Rotterdam zingt o.l.v. Ton Beckers.

Bevrijdt het Zuiden

1973 · Morgenrood 6810 184 · Rotterdam, Netherlands

Bevrijdt het Zuiden – Morgenrood Rotterdam (Sleeve (front))

Artist
Morgenrood Rotterdam
Credited on the record as
Morgenrood Rotterdam zingt o.l.v. Ton Beckers
Title
Bevrijdt het Zuiden
Release
Voor Vietnam
Year
1973
Label
Morgenrood # 6810 184
Format
LP · Album
Language
Dutch
Country
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Songwriter
Huỳnh Minh Siêng; arranged by Misha Mengelberg
Genre
Western Classical Music · Choral
Primary theme
Vietnamese Patriotic

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

South Vietnam Patriotic · Reunification · Vietnamese Patriotic · Protest · NLF · Solidarity

In collections

European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]