Music

    Alone

  • Eric: Ah, I totally understand. Best of luck at the performance, Michael!
  • Michael Murphy: Eric, thank you for checking. The "Oculi" is beautiful indeed but the "Alone" specifically met a need for my convention program.
  • Eric: Michael, I'm afraid I won't have an SATB version read in time for you; my apologies. Have you considered my new Oculi Omnium?
  • Michael Murphy: Eric, I would need to begin very soon!
  • Eric: Not quite yet, Michael - when would you need to begin rehearsals?
  • Michael Murphy: Eric, I wanted to perform your Alone this April at the Idaho Music Educators Conference. Is it available yet? Michael Murphy Director of Choral Activities University of Idaho

    • Alleluia

  • Brady Allred: I have been fortunate to be a part of Bakersfield College Chamber Singers, as a Tenor 1, under the direction of Ron Kean. I believe you know him. While there, I sang Sleep, Lux Arumque, Hebrew Love Songs, and A Boy and A Girl. Then I went to BYU-I and sang with
  • Bethany: This is sooooooo from October! :3 I love this! :) My band played October on my junior year & got a 1!!!! If it wasn't for my band director being obsessed with you in your music then I wouldn't know anything about you because I was in the band/choir room for 6/8 of my classes...haha

    • October

  • Cheri: Mr. Whitacre, I have wanted to have my band perform October but never really had the "right" band to pull it off. Now I am actually working on October with my chamber orchestra (scored by Paul Lavender). My students love it and are getting better at doing it justice every day. I

    • Equus

  • Kim: Never mind I like the voices with it. After listening to it for a few times it felt empty without it
  • Kim: I also liked this piece without the voices. It gives you a chance to focus on the instruments and not the voices when the dramatic part of the song comes along.

    • When David Heard

  • Marguerite Samuel: Thank you for writing this incredibly wonderful piece. It speaks exactly what the text implies and says. It is reveals the beauty, and ugliness of a father's love for his child. Thank you!
  • Jenna: Dear Mr. Whitacre, In the past, when I thought my life couldn't get much harder, I found myself listening to your compositions and they always made me feel so much better, at least until the next tragedy struck, and then, dutifully, I would return to listen again. Recently, my life has been spiraling out of control and

    • Water Night

  • Zeng Cha: When I first personally experience Eric Whitacre's music I was a sophmore year in high school [I'm a junior now so last year]. It was Lux Aurumque that had activated something in my mind that opened new doors for me. Having been in my high school choir since freshman year, I now listen to everything

    • Sleep

  • Dan DePriest: Quite a complement for Eric here: " If ole Eric can't get permission to set Frost no one can."
  • Dan DePriest: I think they probably realize by now they blew it big time.
  • Gretta: The first time I heard Sleep was from my dad and once he showed me I could not stop listening to it. I laid my head down and closed my eyes picturing the words & music painting a picture (I pictured angels singing in heaven to a child to help him fall asleep). I

    • Lux Aurumque

  • Zac: What can I say ?. I've recently had a really bad time, losing someone very important to me and your music really helped me. The harmonic progressions and sheer beauty of your compositions is totally mindblowing. At a very emotional time I'd like to thank you for composing such awesome music. Being

    • A Boy and a Girl

  • David Brewer: What happened to the strings version!?!? It was my favorite thing in the whole world : ( please please repost if you can.
  • Erik: This has become probably one of my favourite pieces of all time, ever. I have put this work on unlimited repeat numerous of times, everytime it ends I want to experience it again and again. If I ever strand on a deserted island, this is the work I want to have with me, it's so