David Maslanka "Remember Me"
Music for Cello and Nineteen Players
James Burch, cello
Robert Carnochan, conductor
UT Wind Symphony

Recorded live in concert
Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 7:30 PM
Bates Recital Hall

From David Maslanka:
"Remember Me" is not a concerto in the traditional sense, but a single-movement, free-flowing fantasia. This composition was inspired by my reading of a “relatively minor” Holocaust event—the extermination of 5,000 Jews in a small town—in William L. Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. An eye-witness description of a Jewish family about to be slaughtered—mother, father, 10-year-old son, grandmother gently bouncing a year-old baby and making it smile—forcefully riveted my mind and heart. This music is for the baby—a single death, through which it is possible to begin to experience the massive horror of the totality.

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