About This Song
About "Suite from "Born on the Fourth of July": II. Cua Viet River, Vietnam 1968" by John Williams
Williams' 'Cua Viet River' is a study in dissonant calm—strings hover like humid air over water, then surge with martial percussion. The tension between pastoral stillness and the encroaching chaos of war is rendered in vivid, cinematic strokes: serene surface, turbulent depths.
