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Canticles from the Other Side of the River
year
1993
duration
16 minutes
instrumentation
Violin, cello, flute, clarinet, percussion and piano
première
May 2, 1994, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, New York Music Ensemble
recording
Available on demo CD
movements
- Lento malinconico
- Lento
- Joyous
- Lento
program notes
This is an instrumental version of Canticles for Jerusalem (1983), a song cycle for soprano and piano, with the order of the movements changed. It was Fine next-to-last composition. In the instrumental version Jerusalem becomes the afterworld, and Fine’s orchestration transforms the music into an extraordinary sound portrait of “the other side of the river.”
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