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Another Part of the Island
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-358295-8
07 November 1985
Price: Available on request
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for ensemble Forces or CategoryEnsembleDuration25 minutesDifficultyModerately difficult to DifficultOrchestrationfl (+picc&afl), cl or basset cl, pn (+cel), perc (mba, glock, crotales), vln, vcProgramme NotesThe island in question is the imaginary (Mediterranean?) setting for Shakespeare's The
Tempest. Another part of the Island proposes an abstract instrumental commentary or analogy, to the principal theme of the play, the emergence of order out of chaos, unity out of conflict. The Tempest is a richly-layered allegory; I have not adhered to the scenario of the play but, whilst this is in no sense `programme music', one might reasonably imagine the instrumentalists cast in the following roles at certain points in the piece: flute: Ariel; clarinet: Caliban; violin: Miranda; cello:Prospero; piano/celesta and percussion contribute equally with the melody instruments to the musical argument.
The piece, in four linked movements, is a large-scale sonata structure. The first movement, a prelude, presents the basic material and accumulates around an increasingly animated
alto flute solo forming an antecedent to the second movement (Allegro energico). Here the ideas of the first movement are `exploded' and developed very rigorously as a `storm' which builds, via cadenzas for clarinet and violin, to the climactic corporate cadenza at the beginning of the third movement. The material is then gradually reassembled into a quasi recapitulation of the opening. But now, instead of building in intensity, the music remains calm, and the F major tonality, towards which the whole work has been striving, is finally achieved as a cushion to a relaxed presentation of the opening flute solo.
Another part of the Island was written in 1980 for the Fires of London who gave the first performance, conducted by John Carewe, in Queen Elizabeth Hall London, May 1982.
It was revised in 1994 for a series of performances by Psappha, including a concert on the Cutty Sark, Greewich.
© Anthony Powers
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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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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"Music to enchant and surprise, with cold force at the heart of its marine beauty." - Paul Griffiths, The Times "A meditation on The Tempest, whose 'sounds and sweet airs' are evoked with keen ear and sure hand." - David Cairns, The Sunday Times "The tone colors are magical...the piece is a dazzling success" - Richard Buell, Boston Globe
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