And, like our own dark side

by Keith Acheson

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'And, Like Our Own Dark Side' is the 8th movement from my work for soprano, woodwind quartet & string quartet entitled Ellipses. It is a complete setting of the poetry collection of the same name, by poet Maria McManus and features the wonderful soprano, Caroline Joy Clarke.

Celebrating the wonders of the night sky, the poems and music are dedicated to the astro-scientist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943, Armagh), and to Archbishop Richard Robinson who founded the Armagh Observatory in 1790.

Lasting approximately one hour, the composition of Ellipses was made possible and supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Department for Communities through the Individuals Emergency Resilience Programme. My sincere thanks to them for their generous support.

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And, like our own dark side
(out of touch/ incommunicado/ unreachable)
also fail to see
our infinite
cruelty,
the indescribable
the unspeakable
& turning
our faces away
as if so doing
(magical thinking)
it/ the ‘thing’, alien,
then no longer
exists?

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released February 4, 2022
Composed & produced by Keith Acheson

Mixed & Mastered by Keith Acheson

Soprano: Caroline Joy Clarke

Words: Maria McManus

Cover Image: Jeswin Thomas from Pexels

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Keith Acheson Belfast, UK

Irish composer, orchestrator, arranger & conductor.
Along with pieces for choir, he has had work performed by the Ulster Orchestra, the Gemini & HuuJ Ensembles, the Arco String Quartet, flautist Philippa Davies, harpist Anne-Marie O’Farrell & guitarist Brian Keenan. Recent large-scale works incl. Wretches:for soprano, choir, string quartet, pianist, poet & tape and Ellipses:for soprano & ensemble ... more

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