A long video: all the gear I am using on Eternity in an Hour, plus my thoughts on the spiritual nature of the experience. | Eric Whitacre
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A long video: all the gear I am using on Eternity in an Hour, plus my thoughts on the spiritual nature of the experience. | Eric Whitacre
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There is so much to unpack, compositionally, in these few measures. First, the altos and the sopranos have spent the entire piece dancing together in major and minor seconds. (In my mind the sopranos represented the boy in the story and the altos represented the girl). It is only in this moment as they sing “saying nothing“ that they move to unison, representing the boy and the girl finally uniting in death. Then the tenors take the melody from the sopranos and altos and lead with the word “neve
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There is so much to unpack, compositionally, in these few measures. First, the altos and the sopranos have spent the entire piece dancing together in major and minor seconds. (In my mind the sopranos represented the boy in the story and the altos represented the girl). It is only in this moment as they sing “saying nothing“ that they move to unison, representing the boy and the girl finally uniting in death. Then the tenors take the melody from the sopranos and altos and lead with the word “neve
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Bit of a journey, but here is the entire story of how my a cappella choral work Stopping by Woods became Sleep and became Stopping By Woods again. | Eric Whitacre
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Bit of a journey, but here is the entire story of how my a cappella choral work Stopping by Woods became Sleep and became Stopping By Woods again. | Eric Whitacre
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A Sunday meditation, using samples from my piece Eternity in an Hour. On the keyboard I’m playing a patch I made in my newly purchased @slateandash Mirrors, which — like all of their instruments — is an inspiration machine. | Eric Whitacre
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A Sunday meditation, using samples from my piece Eternity in an Hour. On the keyboard I’m playing a patch I made in my newly purchased @slateandash Mirrors, which — like all of their instruments — is an inspiration machine. | Eric Whitacre
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The @strymonengineering Cloudburst pedal on the @somasynths Lyra-8. Lush beyond words. | Eric Whitacre
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The @strymonengineering Cloudburst pedal on the @somasynths Lyra-8. Lush beyond words. | Eric Whitacre
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A magical four city tour of The Sacred Veil has come to an end. Such a priceless to make music with poet @tony_silvestri, @vocalinowettingen, and @vocessuaves. You can’t see it in this video, but I had tears in my eyes as I conducted this movement. Tears of grief, of joy, and kinship for my fellow artists. | Eric Whitacre
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A magical four city tour of The Sacred Veil has come to an end. Such a priceless to make music with poet @tony_silvestri, @vocalinowettingen, and @vocessuaves. You can’t see it in this video, but I had tears in my eyes as I conducted this movement. Tears of grief, of joy, and kinship for my fellow artists. | Eric Whitacre
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Out now! “Time is a River” is a piece I wrote for the terrific @maennerstimmenbasel, setting a timeless text from Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. We recorded it last October in Basel, Switzerland and are humbled to share it with you now. Available now on all streaming platforms. | Eric Whitacre
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Out now! “Time is a River” is a piece I wrote for the terrific @maennerstimmenbasel, setting a timeless text from Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. We recorded it last October in Basel, Switzerland and are humbled to share it with you now. Available now on all streaming platforms. | Eric Whitacre
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After the terrible fires in Los Angeles last year I wrote The Pacific Has No Memory for the luminous @anneakikomeyers and the @orpheuschamberorchestra. I was deeply moved by those tragic days and the music just came pouring out of me, very simple and pure. The recording is out today on all streaming platforms. | Eric Whitacre
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Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine and melted Monteverdi. From my new Performance Guides video series. | Eric Whitacre
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100 floors of frights, they’re not all gonna be winners. From my masterclass The Beautiful Mess. | Eric Whitacre
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100 floors of frights, they’re not all gonna be winners. From my masterclass The Beautiful Mess. | Eric Whitacre
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This is an excerpt from the Lux Aurumque “Performance Guide”, designed to help choirs and instrumentalists take their performances to the next level. (I’ve made Performance Guides for eight of my pieces so far). | Eric Whitacre
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The climax of this piece, in this performance, is the single loudest acoustic music I’ve ever heard. The podium was actually shaking. Performed brilliantly by the @royalphilorchestra. | Eric Whitacre
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This is taken from the “Performance Guides”, my new masterclass series designed to help conductors and musicians bring the music to life. I explore in great depth eight different pieces: Sleep, The Seal Lullaby, A Boy and a Girl, Sing Gently, Glow, Child of Wonder, Lux Aurumque and Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine. You can find them all on my website. 🙏🏻 | Eric Whitacre
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This is from a transcription I made of the first five movements of my piece The Sacred Veil. (This is from the second movement, called “In a Dark and Distant Year”). This movement is so close to my heart because I had that melody in my head for years. When poet @tony_silvestri turned 40 I wrote him a poem that began with the lines “In a Dark and Distant Year”, and for over a decade I would sing the little melody from@this movement over the words I had written. When we set out to write The Sacred
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Accidental Blade Runner! Was building some sounds on The Eighty, the remarkable CS-80 VST by @xilslab and stumbled into Vangelisville. (Actually, if Vangelisville was a real place it’s the only place I would want to live). | Eric Whitacre
6.1K viewsApr 1, 2025
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I love how the @hologram_electronics Microcosm picks up notes from the @soma_laboratory Lyra-8 and echoes them back up an octave. Like a little ghost melody, always chasing its shadow. | Eric Whitacre
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This is a video @tenebraechoir made of their recent performance of my composition When David Heard. In my very humble opinion Tenebrae is one of the world’s best choirs — extraordinary singing and music making. If you are a composer, having your music brought to life with this level of sensitivity and musical intelligence is a dream come true. | Eric Whitacre
76.7K viewsJun 29, 2024
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This is from the final movement of Eternity in an Hour. The gorgeous hall is @amuzantwerpen. Bravo @vlaamsradiokoor, @norringtonamy.cello, and Koonraad Sterckx. | Eric Whitacre
11.6K viewsApr 27, 2025
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One of the things that is hard to describe to people is just how good @voces8 actually is. This recording is the perfect example. Of course their blend and tuning is immaculate, and their musicianship is otherworldly. But the most amazing part of this video for me is that we recorded this after we had been rehearsing for about FIFTEEN minutes. They had never seen the piece before, so we read through it once, I quickly rewrote a few of the tenor notes for Blake and Euan (to take advantage of thei
68K viewsJul 27, 2025
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A little piano sketch for “In a Wildfllwer”, which is movement 4 of Eternity in an Hour. | Eric Whitacre
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One more video from Barcelona, rehearsing the bass line from my piece “The Seal Lullaby.” Wow do I miss all these lovely singers and that magnificent hall. (It’s the @palaumusicacat). Thank you to brilliant cellist @laiapuigcello for taking this video! | Eric Whitacre
20.3K viewsSep 16, 2025
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Several years ago my oldest son Esh shot this video of me playing my piece Equus in Santa Monica. Proud dad alert: Esh is now a jazz bass player and a way better musician than his old man. | Eric Whitacre
19.1K viewsAug 14, 2025
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Equus on felt piano. Doing some felt piano experiments today and decided to break out an oldie. Huge thank you to @imagiromusic for making the beautiful Shearwater Piano library; to @lesjamusic for helping me learn the glories of the Cocoquantus (the wooden synth in the background); and to @mattlowery for teaching me how to get Norns, Just Friends, and Fall to all play nicely together. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 | Eric Whitacre
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This Kid is Going Places: The Wild Journey of Talent
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We learned this really quickly as a warmup so it’s not polished but still a ton of fun!! @Eric Whitacre thank you for this gorgeous piece. #ericwhitacre #waternight #choir #choirtok #choirwarmup
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Original Release of 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'
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We’ll never get over how special this day was 🥹 It was such a joy to collaborate with you, @Eric Whitacre. Being welcomed into your artistry & led through this song by you was a wondrous gift. And even more, we were floored by the way you approached this choir with such deep & genuine kindness, generosity, & warmth. You are truly one of a kind. We hope to create magic with you again soon! 💛 “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” One-Day Choir Text by Robert Frost Music by Eric Whitacre Event l
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