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- Joan Tower
Island Prelude (wind quintet) (1989)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
Programme Note
Related works:
Island Prelude (oboe and string orchestra)
Island Prelude (oboe and string quartet)
Composer Note:
This work starts with a very slow-moving consonant landscape that gradually becomes more active and dissonant. Above this terrain, the oboe emerges as a slightly more prominent and melismic line which in turn activates the surrounding chords. Finally, the oboe releases its contained energy in two short cadenzas ruling upwards in a burst of fast notes that lead into a final, quiet coda. This last section is again very slow, sustained, high and distant.
The island [of the title] is remote, lush, tropical with stretches of white beach interspersed with thick green jungle. Above is a large, powerful, and brightly colored bird which soars and glides, spirals up, and plummets with folded wings as it dominates but lives in complete harmony with its island home.
— Joan Tower
Premiere:
9 April 1989
Nancy Clauter, oboe
Quintessence
Kerr Cultural Center, Scottsdale, AZ
Island Prelude (oboe and string orchestra)
Island Prelude (oboe and string quartet)
Composer Note:
This work starts with a very slow-moving consonant landscape that gradually becomes more active and dissonant. Above this terrain, the oboe emerges as a slightly more prominent and melismic line which in turn activates the surrounding chords. Finally, the oboe releases its contained energy in two short cadenzas ruling upwards in a burst of fast notes that lead into a final, quiet coda. This last section is again very slow, sustained, high and distant.
The island [of the title] is remote, lush, tropical with stretches of white beach interspersed with thick green jungle. Above is a large, powerful, and brightly colored bird which soars and glides, spirals up, and plummets with folded wings as it dominates but lives in complete harmony with its island home.
— Joan Tower
Premiere:
9 April 1989
Nancy Clauter, oboe
Quintessence
Kerr Cultural Center, Scottsdale, AZ
Media
Island Prelude
