• Instrumentation: choir (TB) - 1 1 1 1 — 1 1 1 0 — 3Perc Pno — Strings (6 5/4/3/1)
• Year: 2006
• Type: parts, score

''This piece was commissioned by the Friends of ''Warsaw Autumn'' Foundation under the auspices of the ''Förderpreise für Polen'' scholarship project, financed by the Munich Ernst-von-Siemens Musikstiftung. Its premiere took place on 11th October 2006 in Lviv Philharmonic as part of the ''Velvet Curtain 2'' festival. It was performed by the ensembles Camerata Silesia and the Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej conducted by Szymon Bywalec. Both in the title and the musical text it refers to shanties (Fiddler's Green is a legendary sailors land of eternal bliss as well as a popular song). In the piece, amongst other lines, the following text occurs: O Fiddlers Green is a place Ive heard tell where fishermen go if they dont go to hell. Where skies are all clear and theres never a gail and the cold coast of Greenland is far far away As the composer wrote in the commentary to the piece, his goal was to include his ''reflection and experiences of sea travels in the cold and inhospitable regions of the North Atlantic.'' According to Andrzej Chłopecki ''one may venture to say that ''White Savannas Never More ''was a kind of driving force for the reception of Nowaks music - his first, officially commissioned work. This commission was directed to the student who was just finishing his studies at the Katowice Academy by the Friends of ''Warsaw Autumn'' Foundation (...) The first installment of the grant was to help him pay for a yachting sea expedition to the to the icy Arctic area and the second installment was promised on delivery of a sound ''travel log'' (''Dwutygodnik '', No. 30, 2010). After the premiere of the work, Jan Topolski wrote in the ''Glissando'' journal, ''I expected every bar, and I laughed myself to tears during Aleksander Nowaks version of the shanty - for chamber choir and instruments. This ''Fiddler's Green and White Savannas Never More'' is lively, witty, Ives-like in spirit and surprised with its instrumentation (percussion!), beautiful singing by beautiful men, but above all its presentation in the conventional climate of the nineteenth century Lviv Philharmonic Hall of an unconventional, different, salty breeze saturated with the sea.''