Mayn Kind, mayn Treyst

for violin and guitar

Two books are at the origin of this composition, two accounts of Polish Jewish girls who lived tragic times of the deportation: "I did not cry" by Ida Grinspan (Laffont, Paris 2002) and "Memory of a childhood stolen" by Annette Zaidman (Ramsey, Paris 2002). At the end of this last book yiddish melodies have been transcribed. I desired to impregnate myself with this music; that is why I based my composition on two commonly known songs in Yiddish: A brivele der mamen, which appears episodically in the guitar part and Belz, which is clearly quoted in the violin part. The title of the composition is a quotation of the beginning of the first song « Mayn khid, mayn treyst, du forst avek » (mein Kind, mein Trost, du fahrst weg / my child, my comport, you're going away).
This piece is dedicated to Denitsa Kazakova and Jean-Christophe Ducret of Duo Nova.

Eric Gaudibert