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Mỹ Lai

Kronos Quartet

★ 5.00 2 ocen

35 ma 23 chce

Rok

2022

Kraj

Format

Vinyl

LP, Album, Stereo

Label

Smithsonian Folkways

SFW40251

ClassicalFolk, World, & Country Contemporary

Identyfikatory

Barcode: 093074025116

Tracklista

My Lai Lullaby

7:58

First Landing: Flight

9:36

First Landing: Descent

7:04

First Landing: The Ditch

14:16

Second Landing: Hovering

8:26

Second Landing: Bunker

12:31

Third Landing: Postcard

5:16

Third Landing: Fishing

5:45

Notatki wydania

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.