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- John Tavener
Eonia (1989)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Commissioned by the Abbey Life Cork International Festival for the 27th Seminar on Contemporary Choral Music
- SSAATBB
- 4 min
- Seferis
- English, Greek
Programme Note
My work 'Eonia' is a Haiku or 'fragrance'. I opened the Collected Poems of Seferis and found 'The Jasmin'. At the same time I was talking on the telephone to Mother Thekla; I read her 'The Jasmin' and she continued in English, then Slavonic and then English. It was almost like dictated writing.
I was mourning my dear friend Cecil, and 'Eonia' is a fragile tribute, to the man I loved, and to his fragile, beautiful and iconographical art.
John Tavener
I was mourning my dear friend Cecil, and 'Eonia' is a fragile tribute, to the man I loved, and to his fragile, beautiful and iconographical art.
John Tavener
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Eonia
