Friday, December 15, 2017

A Requiem For The Victims Of The Khmer Rouge, Created By Survivors

Reporter Joshua Barone meets Rithy Panh and Kim Sophy, the director and composer of Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, which uses both Western and Cambodian instruments as well as traditional smot singing in a memorial for the two million people - and the huge parts of Cambodian culture - wiped out by Pol Pot's dictatorship in the late 1970s.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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