Ung's

The 2007 solo viola work, "Spiral XI: Mother and Child," composed for and performed (superbly) by Ung's wife, Susan, sounded like a microtonal deconstruction of unaccompanied Bach, paralleled by the violist's own Southeast Asian vocalizations.

In performance: Chinary Ung 2010

Composer Chinary Ung's career has been a study in cross-cultural synthesis, weaving timbres and tonalities of music from his native Cambodia into a Western style of classical writing.

In performance: Chinary Ung 2010

Ung's "In Memoriam," written to commemorate the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, is a remarkably peaceful-sounding work.

In performance: Del Sol Quartet 2010

This was a program full of delicate sonic interplay, from the slow sliding portamentos and stinging pizzicatos of Pawel Szymanski's "Five Pieces" and the vocalizing that turned Chinary Ung's "Spiral X: In Memoriam" (for amplified string quartet) into an octet, to the subtle impressionistic colors of Philip Glass's Quartet No. 5.

In performance: Del Sol Quartet 2010

Del Sol Quartet offers delicate interplay in contemporary program by Joan Reinthaler The Del Sol Quartet's latest album, "Ring of Fire," includes Chinary Ung's "In Memoriam," which they played at the National Gallery on Sunday.

In performance: Del Sol Quartet 2010

At one moment, after Ung's father has been taken away and executed, her mother picks her three strongest children -- including Ung, who is at this point seven years old -- and essentially says to them, go away; go off in three different directions; say that you are an orphan; get lost so that you can survive.

Marianne Schnall: Isabel Allende, Loung Ung and the Power of Memoir 2008

Ung's emotionally devastated mother then remains with her smallest, weakest child.

Marianne Schnall: Isabel Allende, Loung Ung and the Power of Memoir 2008

BUCKLEY: Ung's (ph) unit participated in the rescue of Jessica Lynch, diverting Iraqi forces away from her.

CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2003 2003

Assistant District Attorney Jan McDermott told the jury the evidence will show that Ung, a native of Fairfax, Va., became infuriated when DiDonato and three friends appeared to be flirting with Ung's female companion.

Winging It 2011

"I've seen things I wouldn't wish on anybody," DiDonato, 24, told a courtroom yesterday on the first day of Ung's trial.

Winging It 2011