Kronos Quartet, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo, Rinde Eckert - Mỹ Lai (CD) (Mint (M))

Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)

Brand New Sealed Stock. notes: product Code: SFW40251CDSMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS updated 040225
 

Notes:

On March 16, 1968, the United States Army killed over 500 unarmed civilians in the hamlet of Mỹ 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 Mỹ Lai, composed by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto) for Kronos Quartet, Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, and vocalist Rinde Eckert. This definitive recording of Mỹ 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, Mỹ Lai is “a gripping affair, beginning to end” (New York Times). Presented here alongside recollections by Vietnamese survivor Trần Văn Đức, it is a memorial to all the Mỹ Lai villagers killed on that grim day.

1. My Lai Lullaby 7:58
2. First Landing: Flight 9:36
3. First Landing: Descent 7:04
4. First Landing: The Ditch 14:16
5. Second Landing: Hovering 8:26
6. Second Landing: Bunker 12:31
7. Third Landing: Postcard 5:16
8. Third Landing: Fishing 5:45

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