Images of DepartureImages of Departure was commissioned and premiered by violist Mark Berger in 2010. The composer writes: Since I was a child, I have been fascinated with my mother's stories from her childhood in post World War II Germany. The mystery, tragedy, terror and hope that ran through my mother's early years before emigrating has long captivated my imagination. Images of Departure is a work composed in three different characters, as if the work is a collection