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The Long Day Closes

from Music of Shadows by Philip Blackburn

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3. The Long Day Closes (2013)
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs,
VAPA/The Sun Palace chorus and instrumentalists
Bob Paredes, clarinet

After Handel’s Ombra mai fu (Xerxes, 1738):
“Never was a shade of any plant dearer and more lovely,
or more sweet.”

Handel’s aria was the first piece of music to be broadcast on radio (from Fessendon’s tower at Brant Rock, Massachusetts in 1906 to passing ships accustomed to hearing only Morse Code). Those receding waves, ever more faint and distant, might still be discerned if we had but ears to reach that far. Bob Paredes, the eloquent clarinetist who died in 2005, appears here from beyond the grave playing my 1985 solo, Air. His absence and presence are felt equally in this call across the divide between there and here.

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from Music of Shadows, released March 27, 2021

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Philip Blackburn Saint Paul, Minnesota

Philip Blackburn was born in Cambridge, England, and studied music there and at the University of Iowa with Kenneth Gaburo. He is a public artist specializing in sound — a composer/environmental sound-artist. Blackburn’s works have been heard in ships’ harbors, state fairs, forests, and coming out of storm sewers, as well as in galleries, parking lots, and on concert stages.

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