Another classical makeover comes in the latest CD from the young choral composer Eric Whitacre. It's called Cloudburst. Our reviewer Tom Schnabel says the music is optimistically American and should ...
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – As if getting to perform at Severance or Blossom Music Center weren’t attractive enough, the Cleveland Orchestra just made the prospect of being an adult or youth chorister even more ...
I remember years ago, while living in my little rent-controlled apartment in Santa Monica, listening to the lilting Duruflé Requiem, calmly dreaming away, awash in the lovely choral music. A next door ...
I’m not really into a lot of choral music, despite what vocal aficionados say about it being the purest musical form. But Eric Whitacre is an exception. His third album, Water Night, has just come out ...
The texts are by an aristocracy of poets as might be apprehended by a smart 21st century composer – poets as varied as Octavio Paz, Rumi, James Joyce, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Edmund Waller, ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In 2016, after a visit from his long-time collaborator and friend, lyricist ...
On Sunday, April 7th at 5 PM, Key Chorale Chamber Singers will present some of Whitacre and Lauridsen’s most hauntingly beautiful works full of lush harmonies. Hear the Florida premiere of Whitacre’s ...
There’s no predictable timeline for processing grief. For poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, it took 10 years to express the loss of his wife and the encouragement of his dear friend, composer Eric ...