Eine reizvolle Vertonung von Rudyard Kiplings Gedicht The White Seal in Form eines Wiegenliedes für gemischten Chor und Begleitung. Die Stimmen sind durchweg einfach geschrieben. Auftragswerk der Town...
The Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir #6 had more than 17, 000 singers. As a response to COVID-19 and the isolation and division the pandemic was creating, Eric wrote the words and music with the hope that...
Ursprünglich sollte mit dieser schön gesetzten Melodie für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) das berühmte Gedicht Stopping By Woods von Robert Frost vertont werden. Nachdem dies jedoch aus rechtlichen Gründe...
Jeder Satz dieser Suite ist eine 'musikalische Postkarte', die romatische und intensive Momente einer Reise durch die Schweiz wiedergibt. Die Lieder sind der aus Jerusalem stammenden Hila Plitman, die...
For the setting of Lux Aurumque, the composer chose the Latin translation of an Edward Esch poem, enhancing the elegant simplicity of this new work. The tight harmonies will need to be carefully balan...
The powerful fusion of Octavio Paz's words and Eric Whitacre's musical imagery has made this work a favorite with good high school choirs and beyond in the U.S. and abroad. Spanish text. Available: SA...
Schlichter und glanzvoller Chorsatz - willkommen im Wintertraum! 'Glow' wurde im Disney Park in Kalifornien vom World of Colour Honor Choir uraufgeführt, der aus über 700 Sängern aus ganz Amerika best...
Written with poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, this twelve-movement work chronicles the rich life of Tony and his late wife Julie Silvestri.
This loving and dreamlike work captures the undulating rhythm of a mother rocking her child to sleep. The text is a classic by Rudyard Kipling: 'Oh! Hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And bla...
Lux Aurumque wurde von der Texas Music Educators Association für ihre All-State Band 2005 in Auftrag gegeben und ist eine außergewöhnlich üppige und ergreifende Adaption eines der beliebtesten Chorwer...
One of the latest hotly-anticipated choral works from Eric Whitacre, Alleluia is sure to be popular with choirs for concerts and liturgical services and events alike. The work simply sets one word - A...
This loving and dreamlike work, now available in multiple voicings including SA, TB & SAB, captures the undulating rhythm of a mother rocking her child to sleep. The text is a classic by Rudyard Kipli...
This book includes pieces of varying difficulty, wide-ranging in theme, from the iconic Sleep and Water Night to the quietly angelic Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) and the recent Nox Aurumque (Night an...
Die anhaltende Popularität von Eric Whitacres dramatischer und eindrucksvoller Musik zeigt sich überall in den Konzertprogrammen mit seinen symphonischen, Chor- und Opernwerken. October ist wohl sein...
In this suite - inspired by a trip to Switzerland - each song is a 'postcard,' capturing lush, romantic moments in full. The songs are dedicated to Jerusalem born Hila Plitmann - poet of the beautiful...
Simple and welcoming, Glow was performed for the first time by the World of Color Honor Choir at Disney's California Adventure® Park. The Honor Choir, made up of over 700 singers from across America,...
Ein absoluter Höhepunkt für Chorkonzerte ist Water Night von Eric Whitacre. Das zeitlos schöne Werk zieht Sänger und Zuhörer aller Generationen gleichermaßen in seinen Bann.
Dieses liebevolle und traumhafte Stück fängt den wellenförmigen Rhythmus einer Mutter ein, die ihr Kind in den Schlaf wiegt. Das Stück wurde vom Klassiker Rudyard Kipling inspiriert: "Oh! Schweig dich...
A Boy and a Girl is a tender, delicate poem put to music by Eric Whitacre. It was commissioned by the 2002 California All-State Chorus.
The text explores Leonardo da Vinci's dreams of flying. The blend of Italian madrigal and contemporary style supports the text by C. A. Silvestri.
From the composer Eric Whitacre: Over the past six years I must have read Goodnight Moon to my son a thousand times, maybe more. Somewhere around reading number 500 I began hearing little musical frag...
Now available for men's voices only, this elegant setting of the Latin translation of an Edward Esch poem will captivate choir and audience alike. Moderately difficult for an advanced high school choi...
Eric Whitacre's Sainte-Chapelle was commissioned in celebration of the 40th anniversary of The Tallis Scholars. The piece was first performed on the 7th March 2013, at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Thi...
Commissioned by the United States Air Force Band, Colonel Don Schofield, Commander and Conductor based on the 1819 poem by Walt Whitman.
Eric Whitacre has become a musical sensation across the globe. His new, chart-topping CD release Water Night comes hot on the heels of his Grammy award-winning album Light & Gold. This inspiring colle...
Der Komponist Eric Whitacre hat ein brandneues Werk geschrieben, das üppige und ergreifend schöne Sleep. Dieser eindringliche Choral, der vom Big East Consortium in Auftrag gegeben wurde, beginnt sanf...
An adaptable arrangement of Whitacre's Sing Gently arranged by Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant during the COVID-19 pandemic. An audio track that can be used to replace the piano part in performance is incl...
Arranged for Soprano voice, Violin and Piano. Note from the composer: In the spring of 1996, my great friend and brilliant violinist Friedemann Eichhorn invited me and my girlfriend-at-the-time Hila...
Now available for men's voices, this loving and dreamlike work captures the undulating rhythm of a mother rocking her child to sleep. The text is a classic by Rudyard Kipling: Oh! Hush thee, my baby,...
Eric Whitacre composed and recorded this cover of the English band Depeche Mode creating an elegant and spacious sonority that is deeply moving.
Originally composed for harp, string orchestra and solo soprano, next adapted for soprano and piano and now finally available for choir and piano. This SA setting takes a whimsical approach to the tex...
Performed by the Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir 4 of 2013, bringing together over 8000 submissions from 101 countries from around the world, the work requires an electronica track for performance.
Assembling five songs previously published separately and all with texts by E. E. Cummings, this set is a real bargain. Originating as a Chorus America commissioning project, the sum is greater than i...
Commission by Vance George of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and dedicated to Eric's little sister, this piece features text by e.e. cummings. Note from the Composer: While in my second year at Ju...
I will wade out' ist das erste von drei Gedichten von e.e. cummings, die Eric Whitacre in der Reihe 'Songs of Faith' vertonte.
Commissioned by VocalEssence (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Philip Brunelle, artistic director, with the world premiere presented on 22 March 2009 at Orchestra Hall with the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers a...
Eric Whitacres work Sainte-Chapelle was written for the Tallis Scholars and inspired by the medieval Parisian chapel. It depicts that stained glass masterpiece through sustained plainchant-like lines...
This is the last movement of The Sacred Veil, a twelve-movement work written with poet Charles Anthony Silvestri. The major work chronicles the rich life of Tony and his late wife Julie Silvestri. The...
Dieses eindrucksvolle und schöne Werk ist das dritte und letzte aus der bemerkenswerten Reihe 'Songs of Faith' mit Texten von e.e. cummings. Dem Wunsch des Komponisten entsprechend, wurde das Werk neu...
Written early in Whitacre's career whilst at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Arranged for SATB choir, includes a Piano line for rehearsal purposes. I Hide Myself Just a simple song, really. Al...
Sing Gently was written by Eric Whitacre in response to the 2020 global pandemic. Originally written for choir & piano, he adapted the work for string quartet and piano to create the soundtrack to the...
After Eric Whitacre decided upon the poem by Edward Esch (He was immediately struck by its genuine, elegant simplicity), he had it translated into the Latin by the celebrated American poet Charles Ant...
Conceived as a raucous 'opera buffo' style overture, this new work from composer Eric Whitacre is the perfect way to start any concert. The beautiful theme and brilliant orchestration build to an exci...
Commissioned for the 2002 Indiana All-State Band, Cloudburst is an adaptation of Whitacre's acclaimed choral work of the same name. Lush and luminescent, Cloudburst combines hand bells, thunder sheets...
