Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
'This piece embodies feelings I experienced the first time my grandmother looked straight into my eyes and did not recognise me. Her body is fit and well, but dementia has caused immeasurable damage. The beginning of the piece recalls happy memories from my childhood with my grandmother. In the final section, the poem's text returns in fragmented flashbacks: "And year by year our memory... our memory... fades... memory..."'
Unwatch'd by Alexander Campkin
Text from In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
St. Michael's Church, New York City
Young New Yorkers' Chorus Women's Ensemble
Conducted by MICHAEL KERSCHNER
'This piece embodies feelings I experienced the first time my grandmother looked straight into my eyes and did not recognise me. Her body is fit and well, but dementia has caused immeasurable damage. The beginning of the piece recalls happy memories from my childhood with my grandmother. In the final section, the poem's text returns in fragmented flashbacks: "And year by year our memory... our memory... fades... memory..."'
Unwatch'd by Alexander Campkin
Text from In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
St. Michael's Church, New York City
Young New Yorkers' Chorus Women's Ensemble
Conducted by MICHAEL KERSCHNER
