PAST EVENT

My Lai Lullaby  *
Composed for string quartet, đàn bầu and đàn tranh

Jonathan Berger, composer
In collaboration with David Harrington and Vân-Ánh Võ

My Lai *
A monodrama for tenor, string quartet and Vietnamese instruments

I. First Landing
Flight
Descent
The Ditch

II. Second Landing
Hovering
The Bunker

III. Third Landing
Postcard
Fishing

Jonathan Berger, composer
Harriet Scott Chessman, librettist
Kronos Quartet
Rinde Eckert, vocalist
Vân-Ánh Võ, t’rưng, đàn bầu, đàn tranh

Mark DeChiazza, Rinde Eckert, directors/set designers
Mark DeChiazza, video projections designer
Brian H. Scott, lighting designer

Drew Cameron, creative consultant
Janet Cowperthwaite, producer
Kronos Performing Arts Association, production management

Performed without pause

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE
* Written for Kronos

This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Program Notes Unknown (arr. Kronos, transc. Ljova) / Oh Mother, the
Handsome Man Tortures Me +
Sigur R-s (arr. Stephen Prutsman) / Flugufrelsarinn (The Fly
Freer) +
J. G. Thirlwell / Nomatophobis *
Hurdy-Gurdy (Stefan Brisland-Ferner & Totte Mattsson) /
Scatter *
I. Ghosts of a Future Lost
II. Meltdown
III. Lux Aeterna