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Artist......: Evan Ware
Album.......: The Quietest of Whispers
Label.......: Neuma Records
Genre.......: Classical
Catnr.......: Neuma 180
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2025-08-17
Str.date....: 2023-07-24
Quality.....: 550 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://evanware.bandcamp.com
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1. Symphony No. 1: The Quietest of Whispers 30:10
2. Symphony No. 2: Prologue 2:25
3. Symphony No. 2: Begin Again 6:04
4. Symphony No. 2: Night Music 3:41
5. Symphony No. 2: The Fire 5:39
6. Symphony No. 2: Crossing 2:37
7. Symphony No. 2: Turn Over 4:51
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,: Like one in six men, I am a survivor of childhood sexual :,
: abuse, says Evan Ware. But this fact remained submerged in :
:' plain sight for over twenty years of my life. Only a crisis ':
,: forced me to finally look under the surface. And when I came up :,
: for air, it was as though I could breathe for the first time. :
:' The instability of my life the convulsive emotions I was ':
,: constantly barricading, the pain I reflexively inflicted on :,
: myself and others finally had a name: trauma. It was then that I :
:' truly began to heal. I wrote these symphonies to build ':
,: community by sharing my experience of recovery so that no :,
: survivor needs to feel alone as I did. :
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:' The Quietest of Whispers includes two large-scale works that ':
,: chronicle Ware s survival from childhood sexual abuse. It took :,
: another crisis, however a brush with cancer in 2011 to :
:' finally confront what he had been avoiding. Having no choice ':
,: but to stare down his own mortality granted him a new :,
: perspective: he didn t need to be afraid anymore. :
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:' Ware uses his rich musical language to invite understanding of ':
,: the turbulence, volatility, bewilderment, and dissociation of :,
: the survivor s twilight journey, and then to steer it, with :
:' tenderness and vulnerability, towards the light. ':
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,: Symphony No. 1 is an unflinching, single-movement exploration of :,
: how abuse survivors restore their fractured and dissociated :
:' narratives. Entirely instrumental, it stands in contrast to ':
,: Symphony No. 2, a more introspective work that adds a soprano to :,
: the ensemble and sets three texts by American poet Jane :
:' Hirshfield. Dedicated to the hundreds of survivors from the ':
,: late 2010s Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics sexual :,
: abuse cases, it is a journey through the recondite and luminous :
:' beauty of the daily struggle to love yourself. ':
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,: Perhaps better than any other works I have written, these two :,
: symphonies realize a core aim of my work: that it helps people :
:' face the most formidable questions of our daily lives. I offer ':
,: no solutions. What I do offer is my companionship and :,
: understanding in dark places; the faintest of lights, perhaps, :
:' the quietest of whispers. ':
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,: Evan Ware is a composer and music theorist who focuses on the :,
: reclamation of human dignity and community in the face of :
:' trauma, hatred, isolation, and distraction. Praised as rich ':
,: with vivid imagery and highly detailed and multi-layered (New :,
: Music Box), Evan writes music of angular, bristling energy, with :
:' moments ranging from clamorous sublimity to reverent ':
,: tenderness. His works span media from orchestra, wind ensemble, :,
: gamelan, to opera, chamber music, and solo instruments. An :
:' active scholar of cover songs and multi-media music, he ':
,: co-edited Music in Star Trek: Sound, Utopia, and the Future :,
: (Routledge, 2023). He is Assistant Professor of Music Theory and :
:' Composition at Cal Poly Pomona. ':
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