First Landing: Descent
2022 · Smithsonian Folkways SFW40251 · San Francisco, California
- Artist
- Kronos Quartet
- Title
- First Landing: Descent
- Release
- Mỹ Lai
- Year
- 2022
- Label
- Smithsonian Folkways # SFW40251
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Jonathan Berger, Harriet Scott Chessman
- Genre
- Western Classical Music · Chamber Opera
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Notes
Track 3 of eight of the chamber opera "Mỹ Lai" (Jonathan Berger, music; Harriet Scott Chessman, libretto) for Kronos Quartet, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ and Rinde Eckert, on Hugh Thompson at Mỹ Lai; Smithsonian Folkways SFW40251, released 20 May 2022 (2LP/CD/digital), with recollections by survivor Trần Văn Đức.
About the artist
San Francisco string quartet founded in 1973 by David Harrington (with John Sherba, Hank Dutt and, here, cellist Sunny Yang); over 1,000 commissioned works and 60-plus recordings; joined on this recording by tenor Rinde Eckert and Vietnamese-instrument virtuoso Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ. [Source: Smithsonian Folkways]