Concerto for violin and orchestra (1974)

Abstract

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra was written in response to my research involving Czech composers Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krasa, Pavel Haas, and Gideon Klein and their connection with the Holocaust. During my studies I traced these composers' footsteps through Prague, Terezín, and Auschwitz. This work aims to convey the turmoil these composers endured under the Nazi regime while celebrating their lives and urging humanity to look at the horrors of the Holocaust in order to consider our current societal issues of genocide. Thus, it straddles the line between programmatic narrative and less explicit non-descriptive music.