Jonathan Dove_In Exile_EP73543_Score_ISUU Version - For perusal only

DOVE

In Exile for Baritone, Violoncello and Orchestra

Full Score

ISUU Version

For perusal only

ORCHESTRATION

2 Flutes (2nd doubles Piccolo)

2 Oboes (2nd doubles Cor Anglais)

2 Clarinets in B2 Bassoons (2nd doubles Contrabassoon)

4 Horns in F

3 Trumpets in C 3 Trombones

Tuba

Timpani

Percussion (3 players)

1: Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Tam-tam

2: Whip, Cabasa, Vibraphone (fans off), Tubular Bells

3: Marimba

Harp Strings Score in C

Duration: c. 30 minutes

Commissioned by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as one of its Centenary Commissions, with funds generously provided by the Rachel Baker Memorial Charity

First performances:

3 September 2021, George Enescu Festival, Bucharest

Simon Keenlyside (Baritone),

Raphael Wallfisch (Violoncello)

State Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau Jessica Cottis (Conductor)

9 December 2021, Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Simon Keenlyside (Baritone)

Raphael Wallfisch (Violoncello)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Gergely Madaras (Conductor)

Daybreak again

And I mourn alone

None now alive

To open the doors of my heart

My feelings bound in fetters of iron Cut off from my country

Far from my friends

Dark the earth that silenced them

How cold a companion is sorrow

The Wayfarer

Anonymous Old English, from a 10th-century manuscript Version by Alasdair Middleton

What country, friends, is this?

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

The first arrow the bow of exile will shoot –

Leave Everything You Love.

The next arrow the bow of exile will shoot –

The taste of the ash on your tongue

From eating another’s bread;

The ache of the sores on your feet

From climbing another’s stair.

The third arrow the bow of exile will shoot –

The Wicked, the Stupid, the Dregs With whom you must live in your ditch.

Dante, trans Alasdair Middleton

See, Cold Island, we stand

Here tonight on your shore, Tonight, but never again,

Lingering a moment more.

See, beneath us our boat

Tugs at its tightening chain, Holds out its sail to the wind, Pants to be gone again.

Off then with shouts and mirth,

Off with laughter and jests, Jokes and songs on our lips, Hearts like lead in our breasts.

Emily Lawless (1845–1913)

I left that land wretched

Ploughed the iron sea

With winter in my heart

Often when sorrow and slumber

Hold the wretched wanderer in their fists

I dream of my lord

Golden honey dripping from his outstretched wrist

Then wake

The dark sea beating about me

Seabirds screaming

Frost and snow

Dreams scatter

Leaving none of the old songs in their wake.

The Wayfarer

Listen to me, as when you heard our father

Sing long ago the songs of other shores –

Listen to me, and then in chorus gather

All your deep voices as you pull your oars

Fair these wide fields, these ancient woods are grand, But we are Exiles from our father’s land.

Anonymous Scottish

If I were an ear of corn in the earth of my country a hungry child could eat me and take the hand of death from his soul.

If I were a ripe fruit in the gardens of my country the starving women would gather me and live.

If I were a deer in the woods of my country my hungry brother would hunt me and with my flesh shift the shadow of the grave.

If I were starving among my starving people,

If I were oppressed among the oppressed

The burden of these black days would be lighter

But I am not living with my starving and oppressed people

Walking in procession towards death.

I am here beyond the broad seas living in the shadow of tranquility and in the sunshine of peace.

And can be proud of nothing, not even my own tears.

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) adapted by Alasdair Middleton

Unclean

Uncorrectable

Undesirable

Undomesticated

Unfit

Unfortunate

Unidentified

Uninvited

Unknown

Unnamed

Unrecognized

Unskilled

Unspeakable

Unthinkable

Untouchable

Unusual

Unwanted

Unwilling

Unworthy

Kaveh Bassiri, from ‘The 99 Names of Exile’

Where have the horses gone?

Where have the men gone?

Where the rivers of gold?

Where are the feasts gone?

Where the fire in the hall?

Storms batter stone

Sleet and snow fetter the earth

Winter howls

And darkness draws on Possessions are nothing

Men are nothing

Friends are nothing

Family nothing

And the world is a wilderness.

What country, friends, is this?

My grief on the sea,

How the waves of it roll –

For they heave between me

And the love of my soul.

The Wayfarer

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Douglas Hyde (1860–1949)

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Jonathan Dove

Jonathan Dove (b. 1959) studied composition with Robin Holloway at Cambridge and worked as a freelance repetiteur, animateur and arranger. His first major projects came via Glyndebourne, including his breakthrough commission, the opera Flight, for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. Other operatic works include The Adventures of Pinocchio, Swanhunter, children’s opera The Hackney Chronicles, When She Died – examining the response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales – and Man on the Moon. Works for orchestra include the trombone concerto Stargazer, and Moonlight Revels for trumpet and saxophone. Dove was presented with the Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music in 2008, and in 2010 A Song of Joys opened the Last Night of the Proms.

Jonathan Dove (*1959) studierte bei Robin Holloway an der Universität Cambridge Komposition und arbeitete als freischaffender Korrepetitor und Arrangeur. Erste größere Werke entstanden in Zusammenarbeit mit dem englischen Gl++yndebourne Festival, darunter die Oper Flight – ein Auftragswerk der Glyndebourne Touring Opera, das ihm zum Durchbruch verhalf. Sein Opernschaffen umfasst außerdem The Adventures of Pinocchio, Swanhunter, die Kinderoper The Hackney Chronicles, When She Died – das die Reaktionen auf den Tod von Prinzessin Diana beleuchtet – sowie Man on the Moon. Zu seinen Orchesterwerken zählen das Posaunenkonzert Stargazer sowie Moonlight Revels für Trompete und Saxofon. 2008 erhielt Dove den Ivor Novello Award für klassische Musik, und 2010 bildete A Song of Joys den Auftakt zur „Last Night of the Proms“.

Photo © Andrew Palmer