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Programnote

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