A recreated concert fit for King and Queen Mother

On May 9, 1956, in a display of bi-national friendship, a band from the United States Air Force played a concert on the front lawn of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh to an audience of the royal family and thousands of Cambodians. Many more listened over the radio.

Sixty years later, on Sunday night, that concert was recreated in Phnom Penh with a US Air Force quartet from Washington playing for King Sihamoni and the Queen Mother at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal.

Joining the quartet on stage in the historic hotel’s Empress Room were two Cambodian classical musicians as they played songs, including some composed by the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk, which had made its debuted at the 1956 performance.

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