THE PEOPLE UNITED
(NAVONA RECORDS)
FREDERIC RZEWSKI
THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED! (1975)
[NV6654 | Total playing time 63:53]
[Album booklet PDF]
"...the present recording concerns itself chiefly with the lived experiences of the Chilean people in the early 1970s. Recorded in 2023, fifty years after the 1973 coup d’état, this interpretation seeks to capture the suffering and the uncertainty of a time when Chileans felt the effects of Richard Nixon’s directions to 'make the economy scream'; when Chileans knew a coup was in the works and then watched the bombings of the presidential palace happen; when Chileans were 'disappeared' and tortured under the resulting Pinochet regime. To enter those states of being, this interpretation probes and highlights the rhetorical and dynamic qualities of Rzewski’s writing..."
—Album liner notes (Kevin Lee Sun)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Kevin Lee Sun thanks the following people for making this album possible:
Thomas Schultz, Hyo-shin Na, Jeff LeRoy and Susan Bush, Chris Ramos and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Blaine Rister, Logan Barrett, I-Hsiang Chao, Erika Ji and her parents, Ophir Horovitz and his parents, Kendrick Shen, Nicholas Reis, Angela Liu, Susan and Marsh McCall, Maud Gleason and her family, Jean and Gary Bronstein, Shayda Zarafshar and Yolanda, Theresa Hollenbeck, Cobi Ashkenazi, Eric Tran, David Lee, Leslie Jin, Justin Wahby, Roger Xia, Lawrence Chiou, Clavecin Society, Christine Chang and Max Ly, Candice Kim, Joshua Mendoza, Jaih Hunter-Hill, Fantee Jones, Chris Han, Federico Ercoli, William Shi, Nikita Desai, Elena Frey, Ruth Rosenthal, Jeremy Siu and his parents, Taide Ding, Kevin Su, Matt Wolka and Old First Concerts, Michael Milenski and 405 Shrader, Duquesne University and the Mary Pappert School of Music, Stephen Benham, David Allen Wehr, the family of Frederic Rzewski, Tien Hsieh, GuGu and the cousins, Jared, Mom, and Dad.