A Boy and a Girl is a tender, delicate poem put to music by Eric Whitacre. It was commissioned by the 2002 California All-State Chorus.
DetailsPublisher: Shadow Water MusicPublication Date: 12/2004Credits: Eric Whitacre/Octavio PazPages: 8Length:...
Here are three whimsical settings of Ogden Nash poems that are perfect for a lighter portion of your program or as an encore. They are easily-learned and fun to perform! Includes: 1) The Panther; 2) The Cow; 3) The Firefly.
DetailsPublisher: Hal...
Here are three whimsical settings of Ogden Nash poems that are perfect for a lighter portion of your program or as an encore. They are easily-learned and fun to perform! Includes: The Canary, The Eel, The Kangaroo.
DetailsPublisher: Shadow Water...
Composed in the spirit of the Renaissance works written to Elizabeth I – “fair Oriana” – this soaring work for double chorus is in the signature Whitacre style with brilliant choral textures unfolding into a majestic final...
Translated as “Night and Gold,” this work is a companion work to Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) with themes, both textual and musical, taken from Lux Aurumque and the composer's music theater work Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings. In...
Excerpted from Whitacre's music theater work Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings for the American choir Chanticleer, this setting for SATB and soloists is marked by delicate, ethereal sounds and purity of tone.
DetailsPublisher: Shadow Water...
This loving and dreamlike work 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....
This loving and dreamlike work 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....
Set to a text by William Butler Yeats, this work was commissioned by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and The King's Singers to celebrate their 25th and 40th anniversaries, respectively. The chorus represents the voice of “the human...
A simple and delicate setting of the timeless love poem by the Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi, marks the first time that Eric has written for four-part a cappella chorus without divisi.
DetailsPublisher: Shadow Water MusicPublication Date:...
