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Afar
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-358355-9
08 July 2004
Price: Available on request
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Written specifically for amateur orchestra, Afar is a mainly slow, quiet movement, with a short fast section at the centre. Forces or CategoryChamber orchestraDuration10 minutesDifficultyModerately difficultOrchestration2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 4 hn, timp, str (min: 86442)Programme NotesAs the
title makes clear, this 10-minute work is concerned with distance, both in space and time, recollection and nostalgia. When I lived for about fifteen years between the Golden Valley and the Black Mountains in the (still remote) Herefordshire borderlands the landscape, its varied moods and ever-changing light, was always inspiring; those hills are still visible (on most days) from my present workroom, but now from much further away. So distances are present in various ways in the structure and sound of the music and, ideally, in the actual placement of the orchestra. Afar is a mainly slow, quiet movement not without its darker corners though including a short, quick middle section. Knowing that it would be heard first in the splendid acoustic of Dore Abbey had a strong bearing on how the
music turned out; I sat alone in this beautiful building one bright February day, leaving after a while with many of the sounds I needed to begin work.
Afar was commissioned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Concerts for Craswall, a remarkable enterprise that brings young musicians to play concerts in - and raise funds for - the fine churches of west Herefordshire. The work is dedicated to Sue Norrington, founder and guiding spirit of these concerts, Sam Laughton, conductor, and his Craswall Players. The first performance was given in Dore Abbey on 26 June 2004.
© Anthony Powers 2003
Reproduced be 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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