Work Information
| commissioned by the Abbey Life Cork International Festival for the 27th Seminar on Contemporary Choral Music |
| Publisher |
Chester Music Ltd |
Category |
Chorus a cappella / Chorus plus 1 instrument |
| Year Composed |
1989 |
Duration |
4 Minutes |
| Chorus |
SSAATBB |
Languages |
English, Greek |
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| Full Score(s): |
CH59642 |
Full Score(s): |
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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 Thelka; 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
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