And the lands were Dreaming... is Parisa Sabet's composition for clarinet, piano and voice commissioned by Iranian clarinetist, Anoush Taba`i. Each movement is based on an Iranian poem. The first and third movements are based on excerpts of two poems by Sohrab Sepehri, and the second movement is based on a poem by M.R. Zaman. And the Lands Were Dreaming... was premiered in Spring 2016. The poems follow a familiar cycle of love. In the first movement, the narrator and the love