The Source / Ted Hearne
) | Label: New Amsterdam Catalog: NWAM071 Format: CD TED HEARNETed Hearne, composer, singer, and bandleader, wrote this modern day oratorio for seven musicans and four singers. | 'The Source" tells the life and story of the US Army Private who leaked thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning. | Mark Doten, the librettist for this interesting and thought provoking work, brings together Twitter feeds, cable news reports, court tesimonies, and declassified military videos to tel the story of Manning. | Premiered at the BAM Next Wave Feistval as a multimedia piece, "The Source" recieved rave reviews from the New York Times, NPR, Opera News, and more. | Hearne says this work includes "auto-tuned recitatives, neo-soul ballads, icy string trios and moments of cracked-out musical theater are peppered with (and sometimes structured around) samples that bridge sonic worlds." | "[A] beautiful, sad, altogether crucial reflection of our time" (New York Times)  Price: $17.98 |