Forget Me Not (Original Ballet)

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1.	Park Bench (Alberta) 07:04	info	buy track
2.	Alberta's Childhood 03:09	info	buy track
3.	Park Bench (Alberta, Gilbert) 05:10	info	buy track
4.	Gilbert's Heyday 05:49	info	buy track
5.	Gilbert's Love Theme 04:52	info	buy track
6.	Gilbert's Deterioration 05:54	info	buy track
7.	Three Corsages 05:20	info	buy track
8.	Park Bench (Alberta, Gilbert, Tony) 03:15	info	buy track
9.	Table of Life 05:48	info	buy track
10.	Tony and His Granddaughter 05:03	info	buy track
11.	Alberta Looks Back 03:58	info	buy track
12.	Repeat, Relinquish 05:52	info	buy track
13.	Live with Love 05:09	info	buy track
14.	Bird in Hand 02:55	info	buy track
15.	Park Bench (Finale) 03:05	info	buy track

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Forget Me Not is an original contemporary dance ballet featuring life-sized puppets which tells the story of three main characters and their families as they are affected by Alzheimer's and dementia. Created by Vortex Dance Company and Strange Fangs Song Factory, and produced by SRO Productions III. It premiered in fall 2018 in Binghamton, NY. All proceeds were donated to The Memory Maker Project, a NY nonprofit that brings art into the lives of people living with memory loss.

The music is the story of three characters. Gilbert is represented by the piano, Alberta (whose real-life inspiration played the accordion as a younger woman) is played by the accordion, and Tony is in the score as the cello. Violins (performed by my dear friend Micah Banner) and other symphonic instruments often serve as characters we only glimpse for a moment, or the backdrop against which the main characters live and interact.
As in life, I hope that the uncomfortable parts are balanced by the touching moments, the tragic with the uplifting. While the struggle with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease is certainly a painful one, it would be shortsighted to make music exclusively sorrowful about something so multifaceted. I believe that meaningful sadness in my work not only balances with happiness but depends on it; as Winnie the Pooh said, “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

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released October 25, 2018

The score was composed and performed by James Wright Glasgow of Strange Fangs Song Factory.

Violins performed by Micah Banner.

Story written by Anne Trebilcock, Anne Szymaniak, and James Wright Glasgow, with help from Christina Muscatello and The Memory Maker Project.

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Strange Fangs Pine Bush, New York

“Musician, songwriter, composer, producer, photographer- [Glasgow] is the genius behind Strange Fangs Song Factory…running the gamut from classical to hip-hip, jazz and blues to electronica and rap, he moves easily from the dark and haunting to the soaring and serene. Perhaps the most multifaceted musician I have ever encountered.” –Carousel Magazine (The Creative Genius of Jim Glasgow, Feb 2017) ... more

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