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Performance by Lyn Williams, Sally Whitwell, Sydney Children's Choir from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 144. |
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CD
Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 144.
Library shelf no. CD 3251 [Available for loan]
Score
Deine Mami : for SAAT choir with piano / music by Sam Weiss ; words by Cecille Merel.
Library shelf no. 782.5542/WEI 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
In 2015, my father received a phone call from the Sydney Jewish Museum. "Mr Weiss," they said, "We have come into possession of something that we think you should come and see." The museum had been donated an item that had mysteriously surfaced in a pawn shop in Bondi, NSW, and was purchased by a man who kept it in his personal collection, only to donate the diary to the Jewish Museum in honour of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This item was my late paternal grandmother Nelly's autograph book, which she took with her as a young girl when she and her family fled Berlin to New York and ultimately to Sydney, Australia in 1938. It contains 63 pages filled with poems, drawings and letters from family and friends that were a part of this journey and into her school years in Sydney. Tragically, most of these inscriptions are from victims of the Shoah.
My piece Deine Mami (in English 'Your Mami') sets a poem inscribed in this autograph book to song, written by my great-grandmother Cecille Merel on Nelly's seventh birthday, 5 September 1936. It beautifully expresses a mother's love for her daughter, while also capturing the gloom and nervousness in pre-war Germany.
Work Details
Year: 2021
Instrumentation: SAAT choir, piano.
Duration: 4 min.
Difficulty: Medium — in German
Commission note: Commissioned by Sydney Children's Choir.
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc in relation to this work:
Ola Gjeilo, Morten Laurisden, Eric Whitacre
Videos
Deine Mami: Your Mami |
Subjects
- In the form/style of: Choral Music
Performances of this work
25 Jun 21: featuring Lyn Williams, Sally Whitwell, Sydney Children's Choir.
19 Jun 21: Verbruggen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Featuring Sydney Children's Choir.
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