If you want to learn to compose, compose a piece of music. Don’t ask anyone how to do it. Look at other scores, write your best piece, FINISH IT and then get real human beings to perform it. You will learn more from that single experience than you ever will from a teacher.
Here we go, gang! Virtual Choir has grown beyond our wildest dreams and we can only make VC4 with your help in supporting this Kickstarter Campaign. LET’S DO THIS THING!
The Chelsea Carol, my new work for choir and organ — performed by Christopher Glynn and The Eric Whitacre Singers — is now available on iTunes worldwide. WOO HOO!
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Fans in Deutschland: a lovely profile covering the Munich workshop, originally aired on BR Klassik. (in German).
By Alan Keary. I can’t get enough of this.
Had a lovely chat with Classic FM presenter Jamie Crick.
Less than a month ago I sent out the call, asking writers and poets to submit works to be read at The Eric Whitacre Singers Christmas concert tonight. Well over 400 submissions, an extraordinary sampling of writing from around the globe: funny, poignant, earnest... continued
Hundreds of gorgeous poems and essays have been submitted for next week’s concert in London, including this beauty by Sally Goodwin:
Path of the Heart Through Winter
Oh how I long for thee…..
Warmth of the sun
spirited us to bliss.
The endless... continued
A pop song that I wrote, sang and recorded, ca. 1986. As best I can remember I used a Roland Juno 106; an ESQ 1; a Korg DDD1 drum machine; and an early generation emulator. Everything was recorded onto a four track recorder.
And yes, that’s my real hair.
As a special “cyber-Monday” promotion, patrons who buy tickets on or before Wednesday, November 28th are automatically entered to win a chance for they and a guest to attend the private EWS dress rehearsal in their city followed by a special meeting with me. A special meeting, baby!
The Bach Sonata for Solo Violin, BWV 1001. It seems to me that every question regarding performance practice is answered in his elegant, fluid manuscript.
