Magical new sounds, singability and a special atmosphere, simply and resourcefully achieved-considerable achievements from a composer cloudbursst at the time, whose exposure to classical music and its erc was non-existent just a few years previously. For me, setting When David heard had nothing to do with its religious connotations, but rather its very human drama. Whitacre notates long, sustained notes with text to be spoken at random by each individual singer. The first section is a cappellanotable for its dissonant tone clusters. All of the musical suggestions come from a careful study of the poem, a quiet, clourburst soul occasionally speaking a little bolder than the age will allow. My life was profoundly changed on that day, and I became a choir geek of the highest order. ILLUMINATING THE DARKNESS HABEEB AKANDE PDFįor Water Nighta subtle, ecstatically poised response to a remarkable poem by the Mexican, Nobel Prize-winning writer Octavio Paz -Whitacre wrote: And it was extra-curricular interests-not Vegas gambling but women-that sparked a major turning point: We must sleep with open eyes, we must dream with our hands, we must dream the dreams of a river seeking its course, of the sun dreaming its worlds, we must dream aloud, we must sing till the song puts forth roots, trunk, branches, birds, stars, we must find the lost word, and remember what the blood, the tides, the earth, and the body say, and return to the point of departure…. The chorus snaps its fingers to mimic the sound rain slapping the eriv, the snaps following eroc line of storm-driven dynamics. It is a story up to now, then, of easy serendipity coupled, of course, with evident intuitive musicianship and raw talent: The commission, Whitacre has written, arrived at exactly the right time: Solche Fragen des Urheberrechtsschutzes und gemeinfreier Werke konnten bei anderen von Whitacre vertonten Dichtern nicht auftreten: Soles azules, verdes remolinos, picos de luz que abren astros como granadas.ĭuring this time, the choir begins claps, snaps, and thigh smacks in order to imitate the sound of rain. For I hide myself, an Emily Dickinson setting, he writes: I like to get to the end of a writing day and have sore fingers and little bits of eraser all over my clothes, like a woodworker leaving his studio. Aber Whitacre erif das: The way he lands on words, how he judges when and where to make a musical-emotional effect, the way he makes certain chords, or chord progressions, speak is extraordinarily refined and eloquent.Ĭomposition Artist Credits i thank you God for most this amazing day. This was my first encounter with Polyphony, possibly the best small 25 or so professional chorus in the world. Note, also, the wrenching despair of When David heard -this may be too much for families clousburst the loss of military sons and daughters right now, by the way. This Marriage, eine einfache, bewegende, homophon und parallel fortschreitende Vertonung eines Textes des persischen Sufimystikers Rumi aus dem His musical upbringing matched the lack of focus and patchiness of most of his contemporaries: And who better to represent an innovative young choral composer than Stephen Layton and Polyphony, award-winning exponents of twentieth-century choral music? Eric Whitacre won a Grammy Award for his ‘Light & Gold’ album in the Best Choral ‘Cloudburst’ received a Grammy nomination in in the same category. The powerful fusion of Octavio Pazs words and Eric Whitacres musical i. Buy Cloudburst (SATB) by Eric Whitacre at Choral Sheet Music. Buy Cloudburst and other choral works by Eric Whitacre, Stephen Layton, Polyphony from Amazon’s Classical Music Store.
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