Commissioned by Anthony Hawley anddedicated with admiration and gratitude to RebeccaFischer on her 40th birthday, RHEA ENCHANTED forsolo violin lasts 5 minutes and was composed in 2016.Although highly notated, precise, carefully structured,soundly proportioned, and while the musician iselegantly working from a nuanced, specific text, I likemy music to have the feeling that it is organically beingself-propelled – on the spot - as if we listeners areoverhearing (capturing) an un-notated, deeply musicalimprovisation. Rhea is the Titaness daughter of the earthgoddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus, in Greekmythology and sister and wife to Cronus. In earlytraditions, she is known as "the mother of gods" andtherefore is strongly associated with Gaia and Cybele,who have similar functions. The classical Greeks sawher as the mother of the Olympian gods andgoddesses, but not as an Olympian goddess in her ownright. The Romans identified her with MagnaMater(their form of Cybele), and the Goddess Ops.Augusta Read Thomas
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