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Welcome to the New ericwhitacre.com
Posted on April 8, 2010 at 7:27 pm
It. Is. Alive!
Have a look around, kick the tires, listen to some music. Please comment on any of the blog posts or any of the pages for the individual pieces. I would love to hear about your experiences as audience members, as performers, as conductors; anything you’d like to share with me.
And let me know what you like about the new site, what you’d like to see more of, and which topics you’d like to see me blog about. I’d like the site to grow to become a real community, our own corner of the web where we can all completely geek out on 20th 21st century music.
Woo hoo!
21 Comments
Brad Sampson on April 10, 2010 at 10:13 am
The new website is tasty! It looks like "Libertas Imperio" sounds.
Ross Wooten on April 12, 2010 at 12:35 pm
oooooooo ahhhhh! very nice…like a new pair of sun glasses… you still know how they work but they look a lot better than the old pair.
Lori Allison on April 13, 2010 at 1:09 pm
What a tremendous evening we just shared at Rochester's Hochstein Performance Hall! It was absolutely delectable and I sat back and thought, "These Canandaigua Academy students have received such a gift!" Their performance to your pieces was wonderful and our daughter so looked forward to singing tonite. After you spent time with them at school, 'setting the stage' and providing the backdrop to your compositions, her appreciation and anticipation grew even more, as did ours! :) Thank you for being so gracious to the CA music program and for leaving such an incredible deposit in each student, parent, teachers, musicians and staff.
Music is truly a gift from God and there were a couple very poignant moments early on, when I was literally moved to tears, particularly during the 5 Hebrew love songs (Kala Kalla) and again during Water Night…that last verse…beautiful.
I'm so glad for the way you were 'gripped' and your life was never the same when you took that plunge into choral music. It was a gift to you then, and now you're a gift to us.
God bless you Eric!
Alex Meyer on April 13, 2010 at 2:35 pm
I love reading about where these pieces came from. It makes the music seem alive somehow ,in a way I didn't think about before. This music is magic, but it is real life as well.
Davis Good on April 13, 2010 at 2:48 pm
I love the new site, but in the spirit of geekiness/nerdiness, I have to say I noticed a typo in the Paradise Lost banner in the upper right, "Learn all about he show."
That overly-picky detail out of the way, I think the site is a great change. I'll be visiting often, and I can't wait to listen to all the music you put up.
Keep being awesome!
Ian McDougal on April 13, 2010 at 3:40 pm
This is wonderful!
Shannon (Hume) Shogr on April 13, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Just listened again to the Marimba quartet's Sleep…how unbelievably beautiful!
Christa McCartney on April 13, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Geeking out to 2st century music sounds perfect to me ;-)
Courtney Lea K on April 14, 2010 at 12:30 am
Wowsa! This looks noice! :D
Looks very fancy! I can't wait until I have more time today to snoop around this site to see what it all has to offer!
Joshua on April 14, 2010 at 5:40 am
Is there a link to Sleep by the Marimba Quartet on here somewhere?
Brad Sampson on April 15, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Look under "Videos"
Peter on April 14, 2010 at 8:37 am
Just curious: Is that the BYU Singers on all of the choral pieces except for Animal Crackers; Equus; hope, faith, life, love; i thank You God; Nox Aurumque; The Seal Lullaby; and Winter? I'm also pretty sure that hope, faith, life, love is the U of U Singers…
Peter on April 14, 2010 at 8:49 am
Wow, just noticed that the artists are listed on the individual pages. Oops. :P
Ian McDougal on April 14, 2010 at 11:13 am
Peter, that's funny that you thought "hope, faith, life, love" was U of U Singers (of which I am a member). Did you read my comment on that one with the link to the video of us? Haha…
Kara Holcomb on April 16, 2010 at 10:40 am
I first heard your work on my way home from work late at night. It must have been around midnight when i heard from my classical station a work that stunned me. I caught the last three minutes . Those three minutes distracted me for the next year. I had recorded part of the song and for the rest of the year tried to make out what the chorus had been singing. I fell in love with your work! I found out that i had been listening to "When David Heard" by Eric Whitacre. I love your work! I can't wait to buy an album!
Vincent R on April 17, 2010 at 2:45 am
you're on TED.com! http://www.ted.com/talks/a_choir_as_big_as_the_in…
Jon Fisher on April 17, 2010 at 4:26 am
I think the website looks great! I have been milking every resource that there is… I love how you have combined the blog with everything else. I think the best thing would have to be the media player… I have always wanted that to be ushered into creation. Now I think all that needs to happen is the creation of a new Eric Whitacre CD that contains ALL of your works! I still haven't found a CD that has "Stolen Child" on it. Or, even better, an Eric Whitacre DVD Documentary!
Jim DeLaHunt on April 17, 2010 at 8:24 am
Congratulations on the new web site, and on the fantastic virtual choir.
Regarding the web site, what is the RSS feed for the blog? When I click the "blog feed" logo in the location bar of various pages, I get either a feed of your concert gigs, or feeds of comments to specific blog posts, but I can't see a link to a blog feed which includes the blog posts but excludes blog comments.
Jim DeLaHunt on April 17, 2010 at 8:33 am
Update: I think I found the feed.
The URL of the blog is http://ericwhitacre.com/blog . The blog feed logo at that URL gives a feed of http://ericwhitacre.com/blog/feed , which is gives blog posts but not comments (or gigs).
I think the problem is that, on page http://ericwhitacre.com/, the "blog" heading in the left column is not a link. The "blog" item in the diagonal top-right menu is a link to the top page, not to the blog URL. I expect it to both to link to the blog URL, http://ericwhitacre.com/blog .
Another detail: on the front page, after each blog entry come links labelled 'comments", "share", and "[feed logo] subscribe". The last link is apparently a feed for the comments for that blog post, not for the blog as a whole. It might be better to change the link text to "subscribe to comments".
Congratulations again on the new site.
Matthew Dewey on April 17, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Great website, wonderful music!
Pete on April 18, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I've recently discovered your site Eric and I want to thank you not only for the incredible vision of your virtual choir but also the loveliness of your compositions. They remind me of some of the traditional classical vocal compositions that I love. The way you are able to blend voices, create extraordinary harmonies and evoke mood and emotion are inspiring and chilling at the same time. I've listened to "Sleep" a number of times in the past few days and every time I hear it I get the shivers. Thank you!