vicki trimbach: Music
Chamber Poem no 3 Piano, Cello & Flute
(Vicki Trimbach [piano], Dan Reiter [cello] & Priscilla Call Essert [flute])
"Ode to Douglas Scott"
In 1985 Douglas Scott, an Australian Aboriginal was found hanging in a prison cell, six weeks after he was arrested. It wasn't the first time this had happened in Australia.
His wife fought for years to have an autopsy performed. Eventually, exhumation and autopsy in 2005, by a Brazilian doctor, revealed multiple fractures consistent with beating. Douglas Scott's wife, Letty, continued to push for an investigation. Words can't describe the agony and loneliness of dying while incarcerated.