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Anthony Powers
Architecture and Dreams
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-336576-6 27 February 1992
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Available on request
for chamber orchestra
Forces or Category
Chamber orchestra
Duration
19 minutes
Difficulty
Moderately difficult to Difficult
Orchestration
fl (+picc&afl), ob (+ca), cl (+bcl), bn (+cbn), hn, hp, perc (vib, mar, cencenos (jazz cbells), hi-hat, w blk), str
Programme Notes
The title (which came late in the composing) suggests two apparently quite different aspects of music; but dreams have their own form and logic and architecture has its dimension of fantasy, so the two are not mutually exclusive.
Lasting in all about twenty minutes, there are three movements which play without a break. The first is a mosaic of many different ensembles (from duo to tutti) each with its own distinctive music. The ensembles interlock in various ways in an 'architecturally' proportioned structure of recurrence and development. The slow second movement is a "song without words" for (mainly) alto flute, horn and strings, but this 'dream' is not undisturbed. The final movement mixes the rhythms of various dances (from waltz to samba) on a fast moto perpetuo background. Here too the structure is 'proportional', and, though the dream has its nightmarish aspect, three times the accumulated energy dissolves into nothing.
Architecture and Dreams
was commissioned by the City of Worcester for Music in Our Time 1992 with financial assistance from West Midlands Arts.
© Anthony Powers 1992
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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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