• Britta Byström
  • Later the Same Day (2021)

  • Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
  • 2ssx
  • 8 min

Programme Note

When Anders Paulsson asked me whether I would like to contribute with a solo saxophone piece to his pandemic project ”Solitary Poems”, I asked in return: ”is it OK with two saxophones…?”

I regarded it as going even further in the ingenuity of the lonely, isolated musician: letting him play a duet with himself! This also gave the form of the piece: From beginning to end, it is a strict canon, where saxophone number two – in a distance of four measures – imitates exactly the playing of saxophone number one. And never will the imitation be so exact as when a musician mirrors himself, does the same thing once more – only a little later… This made me think of Grace Paley’s famous short story collection ”Later the Same Day” (1985), from which I borrowed the title of the piece.

”Later the Same Day” for two soprano saxophones is dedicated to Anders Paulsson.

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Solitary Poems for Soprano Saxophone

Solitary Poems for Soprano Saxophone
  • Label
    BIS
  • Catalogue Number
    2644
  • Soloist
    Anders Paulsson, saxophone
  • Released
    4th November 2023