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Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo: My Lai
Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo: My Lai

My Lai

Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo

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Format: CD

Cat No: SFW40251CD

Release Date:  20 May 2022

Label:  Smithsonian Folkways

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093074025123

Genres:  Classical  Opera  

Release Date:  02 December 2022

Label:  Smithsonian Folkways

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  093074025116

Genres:  Classical  Opera  

  • Description

    On March 16, 1968, the United States Army killed over 500 unarmed civilians in the hamlet of My Lai, Vietnam.

    The unimaginable brutality of the event impacted all those who witnessed it firsthand, including helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson, who, against orders, intervened to save Vietnamese lives. Thompson's story is the basis of the opera My Lai, composed by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto) for Kronos Quartet, Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-�nh Vanessa Võ, and vocalist Rinde Eckert. This definitive recording of My Lai captures the visceral, phantasmal depictions of Thompson's grief, horror, and guilt as he is haunted by persistent memories of that cataclysmic day, half a world and nearly four decades away. Tense and unforgiving, My Lai is "a gripping affair, beginning to end" (New York Times). Presented here alongside recollections by Vietnamese survivor Tran Van Duc, it is a memorial to all the My Lai villagers killed on that grim day.

    Description

    On March 16, 1968, the United States Army killed over 500 unarmed civilians in the hamlet of My Lai, Vietnam.

    The unimaginable brutality of the event impacted all those who witnessed it firsthand, including helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson, who, against orders, intervened to save Vietnamese lives. Thompson's story is the basis of the opera My Lai, composed by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto) for Kronos Quartet, Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-�nh Vanessa Võ, and vocalist Rinde Eckert. This definitive recording of My Lai captures the visceral, phantasmal depictions of Thompson's grief, horror, and guilt as he is haunted by persistent memories of that cataclysmic day, half a world and nearly four decades away. Tense and unforgiving, My Lai is "a gripping affair, beginning to end" (New York Times). Presented here alongside recollections by Vietnamese survivor Tran Van Duc, it is a memorial to all the My Lai villagers killed on that grim day.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. My Lai Lullaby
      • 2. First Landing: Flight
      • 3. First Landing: Descent
      • 4. First Landing: The Ditch
      • 5. Second Landing: Hovering
      • 6. Second Landing: Bunker
      • 7. Third Landing: Postcard
      • 8. Third Landing: Fishing

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. My Lai Lullaby
      • 2. First Landing: Flight

      Side 2

      • 3. First Landing: Descent
      • 4. First Landing: The Ditch

      Side 3

      • 5. Second Landing: Hovering
      • 6. Second Landing: Bunker

      Side 4

      • 7. Third Landing: Postcard
      • 8. Third Landing: Fishing

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