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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.

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Guest Blog posts

"LETTING MY WRITING LIE FALLOW" – guest post on AnaMcCracken.com.

"A Writer's Space" – guest post on Atelier26.

"Harriet Scott Chessman: The Beauty of Ordinary Things" – guest post on 1st Books:  Reading and Writing with Friends.

"Book Q&A's with Deborah Kalb" – interview by Deborah Kalb on her website, Haunting Legacy. 

"Walking Through the Hedge" – an essay on Meg Waite Clayton’s site, 1st Books: Stories about How Writers Get Started.

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