Richard Blackford

Voices Of Exile

This is a moving cantata for Chorus, Piano, Ensemble and Tape. Passionate, heartbreaking and of our time, the music includes recordings of songs and voices made in the field by the composer. Blackford's music itself calls on poetry and writings from thireen different languages- set in English- of the politically alienated and dissenting, the prisoner of conscience from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, vivid, emotional pictures emerge of loneliness, loss, exile and grief.