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Aegean Suite
1985
6 minutes
solo piano
Mary Ellen and Tiimothy Fine, for their daughter Rachel.
March 9, 1986, Berkeley, California, Berkeley Piano Club, Rachel Fine, piano
Available on demo CD
Melos
The Blue Aegean
Meltemi (a strong summer wind)
Aegean Suite was commissioned by Fine’s cousin Timothy Fine and his wife Mary Ellen for their twelve-year-old daughter Rachel. Having recently returned form a visit to Greece, Fine wrote three short movements, “Melos,” The Blue Aegean,” and “Meltemi (a Strong summer wind),” which a precocious piano student would enjoy performing. There are challenging phrase shapes, asymmetrical meters, and extended trills, which add to the piece’s interest.
–adapted from Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, Scarecrow Press, 1999.