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Cloudburst Full Score

The piece that helped launch Eric Whitacre's career in wind band composing! In this highly programmatic work Eric transforms a story from American folklore of a supernatural locomotive that roars throughout the Western U.S. Richin special effects and unique compositional techniques this dynamic piece creates vivid aural images as the train leaves the station and passes through a varied landscape…

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 - Alleluia - and embodiesWhitacre's trademark style. Duration: ca. 10:00.

The Seal Lullaby

for Full Orchestra. Par WHITACRE ERIC. The continuing popularity of Eric Whitacre's dramatic and evocative music is evident in concert programming everywhere, with his symphonic, choral, and operatic works. October is arguably his most notable symphonic work, now adapted in this stunning version for full orchestra. / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Eric Whitacre has created a remarkable setting of The Star-Spangled Banner filled with colorful effects and vivid dissonance. Challenging and impressive!

Par WHITACRE ERIC. Rédigé basé sur un poème du même titre par Octavio Paz, un garçon et une fille est Whitacre à son meilleur, avec le compositeur lui-même décrit quatre mesures comme 'les vrais notes que j'ai jamais écrite'. Allongé sur l'herbe un garçon et une fille. Savourant leurs oranges, donnant leurs baisers comme des vagues échange de mousse. Allongé sur la plage, un garçon et une fille. …

Sing Gently (Music from Virtual Choir 6). Sing Gently was written by Eric Whitacre in response to the 2020 global pandemic. Originally written for choir and piano, he adapted the work for string quartet and piano to create the soundtrack to the Virtual Choir 6 film credits.

The Stolen Child was a joint commission by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and The King's Singers to celebrate their 25th and 40th anniversaries respectively. They asked me to write a piece that they could performtogether and I thought Yeats' exquisite poem (written when he was only twenty) would create a perfect dramatic counterpoint between the two groups. The National Youth Choir wo…

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 Kipling: ?Oh! Hush thee my baby the night is behind us and black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon o'er the combers looks downward to find us at rest in the hollows that rustle between.…

City and the Sea

A new setting of the text of the Latin Grace from Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University with a beautiful undulating soprano solo. Ideal for the concert hall or for use in a liturgical setting. Duration: ca. 3:00.

From composer Eric Whitacre comes a brand new work the lush and achingly beautiful Sleep. Commissioned by the Big East Consortium this haunting chorale begins softly and slowly blossoms to a powerful climax. Can also be performed with optional SATB chorus with original text by celebrated American poet Charles Anthony Silvestri. (5:40)