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Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert & Van-Anh Vo

Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert & Van-Anh Vo
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FULLY-STAGED PRODUCTION
Jonathan Berger, composer
Harriet Scott Chessman, libretto

It was nearly 50 years ago that American soldiers massacred hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers at My Lai. Kronos Quartet's fully staged collaboration with composer Jonathan Berger and novelist Harriet Scott Chessman revisits the horrors of that day and its aftermath, from the perspective of the heroic helicopter pilot who tried to intervene. Berger's "richly evocative" and "hauntingly beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle) score blends Rinde Eckert's expressive voice with string quartet augmented by traditional Vietnamese instruments played by Vân Anh Võ, and an electronic soundscape of helicopters, voices, and snippets of American blues.

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