Kronos Quartet - My Lai - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On March 16, 1968, the United States Army killed over 500 unarmed civilians in the hamlet of M? 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 M? 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 M? 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, M? Lai is Incha gripping affair, beginning to endInch (New York Times). Presented here alongside recollections by Vietnamese survivor Tr?n Van Ð?c, it is a memorial to all the M? Lai villagers killed on that grim day. Album Tracks 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 9. First Landing Descent (Excerpt) 10. Third Landing Fishing (Excerpt)