Canticles from the Other Side of the River

1993

16 minutes

Violin, cello, flute, clarinet, percussion and piano

May 2, 1994, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, New York Music Ensemble

Available on demo CD

1. Lento malinconico
2. Lento
3. Joyous
4. Lento

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.”

Lento malinconico

Joyous

Lento (last movement)