22 ABRACADABRA This programme includes a cycle you wrote yourself, which seems to challenge the conception of women conveyed by fairytales. Could you tell us more about these pieces? Their composition is linked to the great movement in support of women’s rights. Its demands opened my eyes to the female models that our education, our society and our culture have always wanted to impose on us. Without necessarily being militant, my approach is to question those models, which don’t correspond to who I am. In the first movement, Caring Stepmother, I wanted to pay tribute to older women who look after other people’s children with such tenderness. As quaver quintuplets unfold, representing the slight limp of an ageing body, we hear long phrases symbolising the perspective gained from life experience.
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