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Canticles from the Other Side of the
River
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year |
1993
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duration |
16 minutes
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instrumentation |
Violin, cello,
flute, clarinet, percussion and piano
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première |
May 2, 1994, Merkin Concert
Hall, New York City, New York Music Ensemble
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recording |
Available on
demo CD
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movements |
- Lento malinconico
- Lento
- Joyous
- Lento
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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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audio
files |
Lento
malinconico
Joyous
Lento
(last movement)
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