There Was Yet No Heaven

This piece is a musical depiction of the creation of the world, based on the biblical account. It is also a conflict between good and evil, which is represented in the composition by the saxophone’s two distinctly different types of expression.
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The title is borrowed from a verse by poet Ahmad Shamlou:

Earth had no flexibility
It was a future planet
A lopsided rock suspended
That knew no orbit

There was yet no heaven
No snake, no apple
And no fig leaf to teach shame
To the crevice of wheat.