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Where Elephants
Weep featured in Korean Financial
Times, Seoul.
December, 10 2008
CBC interviews actors, composer and producer of Cambodian premiere of
Where Elephants Weep
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December, 8 2008
BBC World News reports to The Strand (Arts
and Media Journal)
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December, 8 2008
CNN
Cambodia's
first rock opera hopes its stage will be a bridge
December, 1 2008
“Elephants”
take over Phnom Penh!
Press Release
Phnom Pen Post
In Brief: Contemporary opera in Cambodia
November 5, 2008
American Theatre Magazine
Global Spotlight
November, 2008
Los Angeles Times
Culture Monster Blog
October 30, 2008
Associated Press
Cambodia's first rock opera opens next month
Worldwide pickup sample:
• http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081029/ap_en_mu/as_cambodia_rock_opera
• http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-AS-Cambodia-Rock-Opera.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=111701
• http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CAMBODIA_ROCK_OPERA?SITE= OHCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
• http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/746063.html
• http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008325042_ apascambodiarockopera.html
• http://www.enquirerherald.com/366/story/387255.html
• http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/2008/10/29/D9442OT00_as_ cambodia_rock_opera/index.html
• http://www.bradenton.com/entertainment/story/989876.html
• http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=82&sid=1506400
• http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/6083339.html
• http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-10-29-3251400236_x.htm
• http://ent.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=337032&acid=3&afid=0
October 29, 2008
All Headline News
Cambodia's First Rock Opera "Where Elephants Weep" Opens Next Month
October 29, 2008
Broadwayworld.com
WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP to Have World Premiere in Cambodia 11/28
October 28, 2008
Theatermania.com
Cambodia's First Modern Musical, Where Elephants Weep, to Premiere in Phnom Penh
October 28, 2008
“East Meets West in Where Elephants Weep”
By Andrea Shea, All Things Considered, NPR, April 29, 2007
“From the Mekong to the Merrimack”
By Catherine Foster, Boston Globe, Sunday, April 22, 2007
“Where Artists Meet: Lowell Births Cambodia’s First Opera”
By Nancy Tuttle, Lowell Sun, April 19, 2007
“Past and Present Meet in Where Elephants Weep”
By Kathleen Pierce; Lowell Sun, April 2, 2007
"Cambodia's first rock opera is a post-Khmer Rouge 'Rent'-inspired musical"
By Ker Munthit, Associated Press, March 18, 2007
"East meets West in Where Elephants Weep opera"
By Charles McDermid; Phnom Penh Post, Dec 1-14, 2006 Edition
"Betwixt Cambodia and the US: An Operatic Tale"
By Suzy Khimm; The Cambodia Daily; Wednesday, December 6, 2006
"If Cambodia Can Learn to Sing Again"
By Patricia Cohen, New York Times, Sunday, December 18, 2005, Arts Section.
“For seven years now, the two [CLA founder Arn Chorn-Pond and CLA Founding Board Chair John Burt] have been working to record and teach Cambodia’s arts, in part by finding performers and putting them to work as mentors for a new generation. So far they have tracked down 20 master musicians in 10 provinces, who are working with 300 students. A Cambodian Buena Vista Social Club.
Yet the men quickly realized that simply preserving the ancient arts wasn't enough, that without creating original work, the music would be like a pinned butterfly. They needed to provide new commissions, inspire new young artists...
So Mr. Burt, who is a producer as well as a philanthropist, came up with the idea of commissioning a new kind of opera that would shift the familiar focus from the Killing Fields and embody their project; it would integrate Cambodian and American, modern and traditional music, instruments and styles. He chose opera because it is one of the most popular forms of musical theater in Cambodia."
To read more about the founding of Cambodian Living Arts and the development of Where Elephants Weep, the first Cambodian-American opera, please click here.
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