The title of this work for large orchestra is the last line of Boys And Girls Between The Wars, a poem by Sebastian Schloessingk I have also set to music. The original work for voice and four instruments is the starting point for ...the sun is out, the sun is out . The original instrumental gestures are projected and expanded in a vast orchestral space, and acquire a completely new dimension. This process of transcription, of reading again and translating the same material in different forms, obviously inspired by the lesson of Berio, has always fascinated me.

Composed in 1994