Florestan Recital Project

Here’s an exciting songSlam event from a wonderful partner organization!
Join us online this Saturday (6pm Pacific)
9 teams + 9 brand new art song = $1,500 in prizes🥉🥈🥇
🎟 Get your ticket (by donation) for your ballot! ✍️

Vancouver SongSLAM! 2020 New songs compete for audience-awarded prizes!

"Evidence of Things Not Seen" is the fulfillment of Ned Rorem’s longtime dream of an “Art of the Song.” It is a beautiful and profound tour through a life fully lived, with an excellent selection of English-language texts to express the journey through innocence and youth, love and love lost, the struggles with illness and loss, and, finally, the wisdom and reconciliation that can come with age and death.
There are some truly glorious moments, and there are some moments that will break your heart.

This event will be live streamed: fredonia.edu/music/live
Event is free.
Sunday, September 15 at 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Artists: Aaron Engebreth, baritone; Martha Guth, soprano; Joe Dan Harper, tenor; Lynne McMurtry, contralto; Alison d’Amato & Anne Kissel, pianists.

Florestan worked directly with Ned Rorem to give the Boston premiere of the piece in 2003.
Of my hundreds of works, large and small, I would most like to be remembered by Evidence of Things Not Seen. This ninety-minute cycle of songs is a summation of all that I think and feel about vocal music.
The performance of Evidence, by the Florestan Recital Project, is exemplary and definitive. I am deeply moved that Florestan should wish to retain this work in their permanent repertory. --Ned Rorem

Live Stream | Fredonia.edu