Fiddler’s Green and White Savannas Never More for chamber orchestra and male voices was created between May and August 2006. The original intention was for the piece to include thoughts and experiences from a sea voyage to the cold and inhospitable areas of the North Atlantic. It wasn’t, however, supposed to be programmatic or illustrative music, but rather a musical record of general impressions, a kind of sound diary. It was immediately clear though, that this idea could not have been more naive. Not mentioning the difficulties connected with keeping such diary, the “sea reflections” themselves, in spite of what one would expect, were rather limited and, so to speak, down-to-earth. It was possible then to idealize and fake an experience, which is alien to the composer, or to indulge in a kind of vulgar aesthetics that also, at least in composer’s own subjective feeling, is foreign to him. So finally, still wanting to write a piece inspired by this unique experience, the composer decided to resort to broadly understood metaphor and allusiveness. In short, almost nothing here is what it seems to be, just as life on the sea is not what it might seam. Furthermore, that, what everything is then, ranging from the title to the quotation of ‘Fiddler’s Green’ – a sea shanty song written by John Connoly is often not clear even to the composer himself. And the less clear it gets the better it is, because therefore the closer it gets to what is and is not the wind and water. The piece was commissioned by The Warsaw Autumn Society with support of The Ernst von Siemens Foundation in Munich, and premiered in Lwow, in October 2006.