In 1998, the year he turned 75, Ned Rorem completed a major 90-minute song cycle comprising 36 settings that he entitled "Evidence of Things Not Seen."
The truth I feel is the music made by family as we lived our lives and the children grew into who they are by playing, singing and listening to music. It was not just us who made or listened to music. Our instruments were made by children, women and men or sung by the voices of people. For those of us who who acheived stillness on a day, when we opened our doors and windows or walked along the shore, we heard the music of the surf, the morning choir of birds, wind in the trees, cicadas buzzing and the voices of our children singing.
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