Songs My Mother Taught Me by Dvorak

My mother died of cancer in May 2001, just a few months before my wedding in July of that year and then 9/11. Dvorak captures the bitterwseet longing for a mother's love and childhood. 2001 was a year in which I lost my mother and the belief that living in America meant I was safe. I have always connected 9/11 and my mother's passing. Both events rocked my understanding of the world and made it a more frightening place.

Patricia Girgenti