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Memories from a Diary - Sachiththa Fernando

Memories from a Diary is an original composition for solo violin and orchestra, that is based on the life of Anne Frank. This is a commissioned work for my colleague Sulara ayya. Programme note is included below. Enjoy! ☺️ Special thanks to Sulara ayya for his wonderful performance and Dilshan ayya for his wonderful job as the sound engineer! ☺️☺️ |Memories from a Diary – Sachiththa Fernando| At the time I was commissioned this piece, I was reading widely on Anne Frank, whose much famed diary records her experiences from 1942 to 1944. During that time period she was hiding away with her family, seeking shelter from the Germans. The hiding place, which the English translation of the diary describes as the “Secret Annex”, was a small, concealed room of about 450 square feet that was discrete from the outside world. I had been quite touched by her inescapable and troubled life in the secret annex and with my emotional plight at that time, I felt it was most felicitous that I based my commissioned work on the life of Anne Frank; a propitious move, I felt before long! This short programme work follows an extended ternary form, with a development section in the middle, which expands upon the sound world of the first division. The piece opens with a brief orchestral introduction and immediately the theme (or ideally “Anne’s theme”) is exposed in simplicity by the solo violin. It is conceived with a slight sense of gullible and credulous charm to it, which portrays the mind-set of a young girl in her early adolescence. Though it was only Anne’s family that was initially in the hiding, a fortnight later the family of Hermann van Pels, who worked for Anne’s father’s company, joined them. Four months later, an acquaintance of the family, Fritz Pffer too joined, increasing the total number of occupants in the hiding to 8. Anne was at first pleased to have new people to talk to, but soon the tensions began to grow, instigating conflicts among them; quite natural given the life of 8 people cramped in the small annex. Development section contains many calls and responses between woodwind instruments and the solo violin which don’t generally come into sublime resolutions. Later in the development, there are also sections where the music struggles to find its direction with themes subtly cluttering with one another. With these, I have tried to picture the conflicts that Anne had with others (especially Hermann and Fritz), which however didn’t come into resolutions in terms of what Anne had intended. Woodwind instruments represent Hermann and Fritz, and the violin represents Anne herself, throughout. Even the subtle build ups suggesting more forward momentum are persistently interrupted by unanticipated resolutions. These depict the lacklustre nature of Anne’s life in the annex. That is, in her imagination she’s trying to go beneath the walls of the annex, but before long she realises that she’s physically confined in there. Development is followed by the final section which recapitulates “Anne’s theme” in the higher register of the violin, leading to the climax in due course. That succeeds a gradual subsidence, which brings the piece to a tranquil and dreamy ending. -Sachiththa Fernando