Spouse. personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to Ralph Vaughan Williams Not being a performer, I dont have a performers mentalityI hate being left alone in the green room. Why create trouble where none exists? Eric Whitacre: 'Do I believe in an afterlife? This is a three-martini 16. Eric addresses the guests at the 'Soaring Leap' conference. XII. Both Whitacre and Gergiev have aligned themselves with the Oppressor. 2020), Her Sacred Spirit Soars (poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri), Higher, Faster, Stronger (written for the BBC Proms in 2012), Lux Nova (text by Edward Esch; translated into Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri), Nox Aurumque (poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri), Psalm 137: By the Waters of Babylon (written originally for The Choir of Sidney Sussex, Cambridge and Dr. David Skinner, not yet published), Sainte-Chapelle (commissioned by the Tallis Scholars to commemorate their 40th anniversary), Sleep, My Child (Choral transcription from, Do not go gentle into that good night (text from Dylan Thomas's, The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus (for SATB chorus, Children's chorus and piano, text by Ogden Nash), The Chelsea Carol (commissioned by the Choirs of Birmingham-Southern College and Lester Seigel, text by Charles Anthony Silvestri), The City and the Sea (setting of five poems by E. E. Cummings), The Sacred Veil (lyrics by Charles Anthony Silvestri), The Star-Spangled Banner (text by Francis Scott Key), The Stolen Child (for SATB choir & six solo voices or chamber choir, joint commission by the, Three Songs of Faith (poems by E. E. Cummings), Alone (poem by Edgar Allan Poe, for male voice sextet), Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine (poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri, for SSATB & percussion), Five Hebrew Love Songs; for soprano voice, solo violin, piano, Goodnight Moon; for soprano voice and string orchestra, This page was last edited on 15 April 2023, at 15:50. By his junior year, he wrote his first choral work, Go, Lovely Rose, presenting it as a thank-you to Weillerwho, in turn, had the choir perform it at a convention and helped his protg to see the work published. Altijd bloemen mijn vrouw! Whitacre married Belgian opera singer Laurence Servaes in Maui, Hawaii, in March 2019. 2017 Copyright CS Music. I married the love of my life Laurence Servaes. I believe there is an essence of it in the things he writes that maybe it doesnt quite hit the scholastic [or] academic world in the way they like things to be, but it is absolutely genuine and thought filled and has a lot of form to it and structural building behind it.. [36], The virtual World of Color Honor Choir was put together in 2013 by Eric Whitacre and Disney. Eric Whitacre (Composer) Wiki, Biography, Age, Wife, Family, Net Worth Cluster chords. Band nerds and choir geeks of the world unite!