{"product_id":"my-lai","title":"My Lai","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn March 16, 1968, the United States Army killed over 500 unarmed civilians in the hamlet of My Lai, Vietnam. The unimaginable brutality of the event impacted all those who witnessed it firsthand, including helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson, who, against orders, intervened to save Vietnamese lives. Thompson's story is the basis of the opera \u003ci\u003eMy Lai\u003c\/i\u003e, composed by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto) for Kronos Quartet, Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, and vocalist Rinde Eckert. This definitive recording of \u003ci\u003eMy Lai\u003c\/i\u003e captures the visceral, phantasmal depictions of Thompson's grief, horror, and guilt as he is haunted by persistent memories of that cataclysmic day, half a world and nearly four decades away. Tense and unforgiving, \u003ci\u003eMy Lai\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a gripping affair, beginning to end\" (New York Times). Presented here alongside recollections by Vietnamese survivor Tran Van Duc, it is a memorial to all the My Lai villagers killed on that grim day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smithsonian Folkways","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50476946456907,"sku":"1168131","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50476947571019,"sku":"1168130","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/915ccf1c-6237-41bb-9eff-3c6ac05d177b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727465553","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/my-lai","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}