This is a performance of Lux Aurumque by the legendary Choir of King’s College at their annual Christmas Eve service, “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.” Held in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, it’s broadcast globally on the BBC, both on the... continued
This has been making it’s way around the interwebs today and has me mesmerized. Seriously, I can’t stop watching.
Easily the greatest bass player of all time.
No, not in a zombie way. Hila and I were talking about programming possibilities and began wondering: are there any classical works for solo soprano and piano that have texts written by the composer? Anybody know? Please post your answers here.
Mmm… Brains.
For years maestro Craig Hella Johnson and his incredible choir Conspirare have been quietly changing the game, taking choral music to a completely new level of depth and artistry. Recently, they’ve exploded onto the... continued
Yep… In a bid to stay ‘hip’ and ‘with it’ I’m going to try Twitter. Just what I need: one more over-hyped technology designed to help me procrastinate.
@ericwhitacre to subscribe.
Thursday, April 16th I’ll return to London to conduct the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. (NYCGB). This is the same group that I conducted in the premiere of The... continued
How in the world did I miss this? Last week the BYU Singers performed my Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine live for the first time. AAAAGHH! Was anyone at the concert? Please let me know if you were there!
Here is a very, very cool video... continued
This is the recording from the “Eric Whitacre Extravaganza” in Minneapolis last weekend. It’s me conducting, and the Minnesota High School Honors Choir singing. The pianist was Renae Williams.
Here, again, are the poems by Ogden Nash:
THE... continued
A week ago Sunday (March 15th, 2009) was my first performance with DCINY, the company that I’ve partnered with for another June concert this year in NYC and four concerts next year (including two in Carnegie Hall). The performers and I had a... continued
God help us all.
I’ve written another volume of Animal Crackers, three more musical settings of those timeless animal poems by Ogden Nash:
THE CANARY
The song of canaries
Never varies.
And when they’re... continued
Well, music video anyway… just an extraordinarily strange and beautiful short film set to Water Night, performed by and featuring the excellent Norwegian group Kammerkoret Nova.
When I wrote Water Night – fifteen years ago (!)- I never in my wildest dreams imagined that it might inspire something like this.
OK… just finished two new pieces… I’ll blog about them soon. I feel like I’m coming up for air for the first time in months…
This Friday I’ll be at the National ACDA convention in Oklahoma City, and if you’ve got the time and... continued
