’’He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach’’ (from “The Old Man and the Sea” by E. Hemingway). This one-movement piece for 7 instruments was inspired by the mentioned above book – a novella by Ernest Hemingway, which has gotten him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature. The short masterpiece (also being Hemingway’s last published work) was written on the cutting edge of the post-WW2 society and became a symbol of faith in humanity and its purpose. The musical material aims to embody an “enchanted state”, a “state of stillness” and a “sense of movement within the stillness” as indicated in the score.