• Rebecca Saunders
  • the under-side of green (1994)
    (for clarinet in Bb, violin and piano)

  • Peters Edition Limited (World)

Commissioned by Zanfonia Trio

  • cl/pf/vn
  • 8 min

Programme Note

The text from James Joyce's Ulysses on which the play is based reads:

"…the old castle thousands of years old yes and …glancing eyes a lattice hid for her lover to kiss the iron and the wineshops half open at night and the castanets and… serenr with his lamp and O that awful deep-down torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and… yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and… or shall I wear a red yes and how he…"

The workwas written for Zanfonia and Joe and Lilly.

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