LIBRETTI:
MY LAI:
Smithsonian Folkways released the recording of My Lai on May 20, 2022. It’s available digitally, on a CD set (including the libretto and other material), and as a vinyl album.
Kronos Quartet:
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Sunny Yang, cello
Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, t’ru’ng, Cfan bau, Cfan tranh
Rinde Eckert, vocalist
Music by Jonathan Berger
Libretto by Harriet Scott Chessman
Produced by Scott Fraser and Kronos Quartet
Recorded by Scott Fraser at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California, March 26-30, 2018
Assistant Engineer: Robert Kirby
Mixed by Scott Fraser and Kronos Quartet
Mastered by Scott Fraser
Executive Producer: Janet Cowperthwaite
Project Supervisor for Kronos: Reshena Liao
Annotated by Jonathan Berger and Tran Van Due
Dedicated to the memory of Larry Colburn
Cover Photo by Ronald Haeberle
Artist photo by Zoran Orlic
OTHER RECENT NEWS:
A concert version of My Lai was performed at Carnegie Hall on April 23, 2022.
My opera Sycorax (with music composed by Georg Friedrich Haas) will open at Buehnen Bern theater, in Bern, Switzerland, on September 17, 2022, and will include six performances in all.
I am collaborating with Mary Kouyoumdjian on a musical piece about the gifted singer Zabelle Panosian, who recorded Armenian folksongs at Columbia Records in New York in 1917, during the Armenian Genocide, and who devoted her life to sustaining the sound and knowledge and heart of Armenia.