...here was one for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano

The title of the work, ...here was one is a fragment from a quotation from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Here is the complete quotation below:

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

Woolf’s novels are famous for how she constructs the novel using stream-of- consciousness and the various ways time passes in her non-linear storylines. Nevertheless, beyond the techniques mentioned above, the core, or perpetual pursuit behind this novel is the profound question she asks all the time:” What is the meaning of life?” for us as readers and for Virginia Woolf herself.