Program note:

“Eclipse" was commissioned by fivebyfive to commemorate the total solar eclipse occurring on April 8, 2024.  The music begins with the sun slowly being eclipsed by the moon.  Once the eclipse is underway, a world of shifting rhythms and hidden melodies start to appear.  The music slowly points out contours and lines that were once hidden in plain sight, but now in the shadow of the total solar eclipse, have their one and only chance to “shine.”  The moon gleams in dancing rhythms and funky lines that together, with the shadowed sun, present an alternate role reversed musical universe.  “Eclipse” was premiered by fivebyfive at the RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester, NY, on January 20 & 21, 2024. 

​

-MM