: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : 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.....: 243kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://evanware.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 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 5:40 6. Symphony No. 2: Crossing 2:37 7. Symphony No. 2: Turn Over 4:51 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 55:28 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 102.06______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: 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. : :' ': ,: :, : : :' 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. : :' ': ,: :, : : :' 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. ': ,: :, : : :' ': ,: 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. ': ,: :, : : :' ': ,: 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. ': ,: :, : : :' ': ,: 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. ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / GREETS: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ \/