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O'Regan, Tarik Darkness Visible
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Darkness Visible Duration 2’45”
Instrumentation Counter-tenor Tenor Harp
Notes Darkness Visible interlaces two texts born of the Commonwealth of England (1649-1660). John Milton, who had been in the service of the Parliamentary cause, and Henry Vaughan, a staunch Royalist, find common ground in their descriptions of a post-Restoration underworld. Tarik O’Regan New York, July 2008
Text …yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell… Paradise Lost, Book I John Milton (1608-1674) A nest of nights, a gloomy sphere, Where shadows thicken, and the cloud Sits on the sun’s brow all the year, And nothing moves without a shroud. Death: A Dialogue from Silex Scintillans, Part I Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) …yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible. Paradise Lost
Order number: NOV958045
DARKNESS VISIBLE John Milton (1608-1674) Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
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TARIK O'REGAN (b. 1978)
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