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Zlata's Diary
Vocal and instrumental scores and parts on hire
978-0-19-337844-5
21 August 1995
Price: Available on request
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for upper-voice choir (suitable for children's voices), and small orchestra or piano duet
The fourteen short movements set extracts from the writings of a thirteen-year-old girl living in Sarajevo in the 1990s. Forces or CategoryUpper voices & piano duet/small orchestraDuration13 minutesDifficultyEasy to Moderately difficultOrchestrationfl, ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, timp, perc (SD,
dr, BD, sz cym, hi-hat, guiro, whip), strProgramme NotesText from Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic.
Zlata's Diary is an account, by a thirteen-year-old Bosnian girl, of the time (1991-93) before and during the siege of Sarajevo. It describes, simply and movingly, the impact of war on a child. It seemed to me very appropriate to try and match this quality in a musical setting for children's chorus, and I have kept to the spirit and shape of the diary. The settings are like brief diary entries themselves with the music (for SA chorus, with chamber orchestra or piano duet) as direct and straightforward as I could make it. The text is, for obvious reasons, a very much abbreviated
version of the book, so that the piece moves rapidly through the two years of the diary in less than fifteen minutes, but I have tried to include most of the main episodes in the story.
The piece was commissioned by Mary Denniss, director of Highcliffe Junior Choir, with funds made available by Southern Arts Board and the Foundation for Sport and the Arts. It was written in early 1995, during some of the worst of the 'troubles' in the former Yugoslavia, but it might stand as well for any time in which people, and especially children, find themselves caught up in events beyond their control, or even understanding.
The first performance was given by Highcliffe Junior Choir and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conducted by Tamás Vásáry, at the Wessex Hall in Poole on 15
November 1995.
© Anthony Powers
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
1: September - November 1991
The school year starts again, but politics and war loom.
2: March - April 1992
Barricades go up in Sarajevo, and a girl is killed on the bridge near the flat where Zlata lives with her parents.
3: April 1992
Zlata's friends leave Sarajevo.
4: May 1992
The family take shelter from the mortar attacks in the cellar.
5: June - July 1992
From her broken windows Zlata sees the deserted park and hears the shells. "War is now my life".
6: July 1992
With no food in Sarajevo the family pick cherries from their tree.
7: July 1992
Zlata's mother
makes the dangerous journey to work, running across the bridge. "I didn't know the river was so wide...".
8: September 1992
A friend's birthday party is interrupted by shell fire. "That's how we celebrate birthday's here".
9: October 1992
Zlata faces the winter without water, gas or electricity. In a room which is dangerous to be in because of the shelling, her piano keeps her company.
10: January 1993
Zlata watches the snow but it's not safe to go out. "Keep going Zlata..."
11: May 1993
A mouse causes panic in the household.
12: July 1993
After the news of her diary spreads Zlata is filmed for American TV. "Our lives are so different. Yours is bright light. Ours is darkness".
13:
September 1993
Sarajevo is a dead city.
14: December 1993
Zlata and her family have escaped. "Now we're bathing in the lights of Paris...when a glimmer of this light shows in the darkness of Sarajevo, then it will be my light as well..."
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Anthony Powers (b.1953) Born in London in 1953, Anthony Powers studied at Oxford, in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, and at York with David Blake and Bernard Rands. He taught for two years at Dartington College of Arts before being appointed Composer-in-Residence to Southern Arts. Since then he has moved to Herefordshire where he continues to divide his time between composing and teaching, currently at Cardiff University, where he has been Professor of composition since 2004.
Powers's music is characterized by strong architectonic frameworks that support a language of poetic intensity and magical sonorities. His music often takes its inspiration from the tension between different states, be they physical properties, landscapes, seasons or emotions.Anthony Powers at Cardiff University
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"This is a rare and remarkable work...technically within grasp of primary children, but whose emotional depth and challenging sound-world will make it a profoundlly worthwhile choice for older age-groups,,,a piece of this quality cannot be ignored." - Mastersinger "Powers has succeeded in creating a 20th century classic of the horror, hope and humour of an innocent's war." - Bournemouth Evening Echo
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