The Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir #6 had more than 17, 000 singers. As a response to COVID-19 and the isolation and division the pandemic was creating, Eric wrote the words and music with the hope that...
A poem by Edward Esch (translated into Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri) with tight, shimmering harmonies. For SATB Choir (divisi) A Cappella.
The text explores Leonardo da Vinci's dreams of flying. The blend of Italian madrigal and contemporary style supports the text by C. A. Silvestri.
From the composer of the much performed Cloudburst, here is a new collaboration between Eric Whitacre and poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, drawing on the mystical moment between awareness and sleep. Wh...
A delightful, deceptively simple setting in the form of a lullaby for mixed choir and accompaniment of Rudyard Kipling's poem The White Seal. Easy part writing throughout. Commissioned by the Towne Si...
Written with poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, this twelve-movement work chronicles the rich life of Tony and his late wife Julie Silvestri.
Glow by Eric Whitacre for SATB choir with Piano accompaniment. This work features words by Edward Esch and the accompaniment is arranged by Lisa Edwards.
This loving and dreamlike work, now available in multiple voicings including SA, TB & SAB, captures the undulating rhythm of a mother rocking her child to sleep. The text is a classic by Rudyard Kipli...
In this suite - inspired by a trip to Switzerland - each song is a postcard, capturing lush, romantic moments in full. The songs are dedicated to Jerusalem born Hila Plitmann - poet of the beautiful t...
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 bla...
Commissioned by the Texas Music Educators Association for their 2005 All-State Band, Lux Aurumque is an extraordinarily lush and poignant adaptation of one of Eric Whitacre's most popular choral works...
The continuing popularity of Eric Whitacre's dramatic and evocative music is evident in concert programming everywhere, with his symphonic, choral, and operatic works. October is arguably his most not...
Now available for men's voices, 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,...
Simple and welcoming, Glow was performed for the first time by the World of Color Honor Choir at Disney's California Adventure® Park. The Honor Choir, made up of over 700 singers from across America,...
Originally composed for harp, string orchestra and solo soprano, next adapted for soprano and piano and now finally available for choir and piano. This SA setting takes a whimsical approach to the tex...
Taken from the award-winning musical Paradise Lost by Eric Whitacre which boasts 10 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards nominations, the 2008 Los Angeles Garland Award, and the LA Weekly Award. This work...
Assembling five songs previously published separately and all with texts by E. E. Cummings, this set is a real bargain. Originating as a Chorus America commissioning project, the sum is greater than i...
Commission by Vance George of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and dedicated to Eric's little sister, this piece features text by e.e. cummings. Note from the Composer: While in my second year at Ju...
Of timeless beauty, this composition speaks to singers and audiences of all generations, offering a high point in any concert program. Available: SATB a cappella.
The powerful fusion of Octavio Paz's words and Eric Whitacre's musical imagery has made this work a favorite with good high school choirs and beyond in the U.S. and abroad. Spanish text. Available: SA...
I will wade out' ist das erste von drei Gedichten von e.e. cummings, die Eric Whitacre in der Reihe 'Songs of Faith' vertonte.
Commissioned by VocalEssence (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Philip Brunelle, artistic director, with the world premiere presented on 22 March 2009 at Orchestra Hall with the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers a...
Eric Whitacre's Sainte-Chapelle was commissioned in celebration of the 40th anniversary of The Tallis Scholars. The piece was first performed on the 7th March 2013, at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Thi...
After Eric Whitacre decided upon the poem by Edward Esch (He was immediately struck by its genuine, elegant simplicity), he had it translated into the Latin by the celebrated American poet Charles Ant...
Conceived as a raucous 'opera buffo' style overture, this new work from composer Eric Whitacre is the perfect way to start any concert. The beautiful theme and brilliant orchestration build to an exci...
This book includes pieces of varying difficulty, wide-ranging in theme, from the iconic Sleep and Water Night to the quietly angelic Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) and the recent Nox Aurumque (Night an...
One of the latest hotly-anticipated choral works from Eric Whitacre, Alleluia is sure to be popular with choirs for concerts and liturgical services and events alike. The work simply sets one word - A...
In this suite - inspired by a trip to Switzerland - each song is a 'postcard,' capturing lush, romantic moments in full. The songs are dedicated to Jerusalem born Hila Plitmann - poet of the beautiful...
Arranged for Soprano voice, Violin and Piano. Note from the composer: In the spring of 1996, my great friend and brilliant violinist Friedemann Eichhorn invited me and my girlfriend-at-the-time Hila...
Now available for men's voices only, this elegant setting of the Latin translation of an Edward Esch poem will captivate choir and audience alike. Moderately difficult for an advanced high school choi...
Filled with colorful effects and vivid dissonance, Eric Whitacre has created a remarkable setting of our national anthem. Challenging and impressive, this arrangement is both reverential and unique. (...
On Stranger Tides is the fourth installment in Disney's blockbuster The Pirates of the Caribbean series. Hans Zimmer's score is enhanced with the vocal styling of Eric Whitacre and Hila Plitmann and t...
Simple and welcoming, Glow was performed for the first time by the World of Color Honor Choir at Disney's California Adventure Park. The Honor Choir, made up of over 700 singers from across America, w...
Eric Whitacre composed and recorded this cover of the English band Depeche Mode creating an elegant and spacious sonority that is deeply moving.
One of Eric Whitacre's earliest choral compositions, this is for treble voices with the accompaniment of English horn. Available: 3-Part Treble.
Initially composed for SATB, this collection of songs is now available for women's voices. Like the SATB version, the suite is set for piano and violin, but may also be performed with string quartet.
A wild ride from the composer of October and Ghost Train! Equus is the Latin word for horse, and this moto perpetuo perfectly captures the fury and majesty of this magnificent animial. Commissioned by...
Eric Whitacre has created a remarkable setting of The Star-Spangled Banner, filled with colorful effects and vivid dissonance. Challenging and impressive!
Eric Whitacres work Sainte-Chapelle was written for the Tallis Scholars and inspired by the medieval Parisian chapel. It depicts that stained glass masterpiece through sustained plainchant-like lines...
Lux Nova sees Eric Whitacre's best-selling 'Lux Aurumque' re-imagined with a middle section of new material from his musical 'Paradise Lost'. Lux Nova works best with a pure, balanced, shimmering tone...
The composer writes: Seeing the Hubble Deep Space Field for the first time is an experience much like listening to a powerful piece of music - it elicits feelings of wonder and awe that can be difficu...
Eric Whitacre's famous work for concert band, now with optional vocal parts! An original work best described in the composer's own words as being really out there. The writing reflects a keen interest...
Deluxe double A-side edition on 10-inch vinyl of Eric Whitacre's choral cover of Trent Reznor's Hurt & his setting of E. E. Cummings' beautiful poem i carry your heart. This deluxe special edition rel...
Written for best friends of the composer and premiered by the LA Master Chorale. The heart of this piece is reflected in the text i am never without it. This is an intimate text set in an intimate way...
Originally composed for harp, string orchestra and solo soprano, next adapted for soprano and piano and now finally available for SATB choir and piano. This SATB setting takes a whimsical approach to...
Setting the iconic song by Trent Reznor in a way that captures both pain and peace, hopelessness and sorrow too deep to describe and at the same time a feeling of living in its fullness. The music is...
This is the third movement of The Sacred Veil, a twelve-movement work written with poet Charles Anthony Silvestri. The Sacred Veil chronicles the rich life of Tony and his late wife Julie Silvestri. T...
This is the last movement of The Sacred Veil, a twelve-movement work written with poet Charles Anthony Silvestri. The major work chronicles the rich life of Tony and his late wife Julie Silvestri. The...
Commissioned by the United States Air Force Band, Colonel Don Schofield, Commander and Conductor based on the 1819 poem by Walt Whitman.
The new work of young composer Eric Whitacre uses the text of David, lamenting the slaying of his son Absalom (II Samuel 18:33). It is a major work, with great dramatic moments describing the feeling...
This is the third setting of words by Octavio Paz (Water Night; Cloudburst) from this successful young California composer. Little Birds pays homage to Gabriel Fauré with its running piano part and fl...
The second publication after 'I thank You God for most this amazing day' in the set of three Songs of Faith, all to poems by E.E. Cummings.
Dieses eindrucksvolle und schöne Werk ist das dritte und letzte aus der bemerkenswerten Reihe 'Songs of Faith' mit Texten von e.e. cummings. Dem Wunsch des Komponisten entsprechend, wurde das Werk neu...
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.
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.
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) T...
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,...
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 Paradi...
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 o...
White key clusters in the piano create the rhythmic framework for the playful vocals sung in unison declamation or that ricochet one part to another in this E.E. Cummings setting vividly portraying an...
This languorous setting of the E. E. Cummings text features a chaconne-like left hand pattern in the piano along with right hand cluster chords and legato vocal phrases in octaves to create a meditati...
With the characteristic clusters broken into arpeggios for this movement, this playful work features delightful wordplay and simple fun! Duration: ca. 1:40.
Full of colorful contrasts, this final movement from The City and the Sea dances with fun and humor! The rhythmic wordplay and deconstructed syllables of the E.E. Cummings poem hurtle ever faster to t...
A new setting of the text of the Latin Grace from Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University with a beautiful undulating soprano solo. Ideal for the concert hall or for use in a liturgical setting....
Written for unnacompanied SATB choir. Commissioned by Azusa Pacific University for The APU Chamber Singers, Michelle Jensen, conductor.
The Stolen Child was a joint commission by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and The King's Singers to celebrate their 25th and 40th anniversaries, respectively. They asked me to write a piece...
Written early in Whitacre's career whilst at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Arranged for SATB choir, includes a Piano line for rehearsal purposes. I Hide Myself Just a simple song, really. Al...
For SATB choir with Piano accompaniment. Commissioned by Distinguished Concept Artists International New York as part of the DCINY Premiere Project. By Eric Whitacre with text from E. E. Cummings.
White key clusters in the piano create the rhythmic framework for the playful vocals sung in unison declamation or that ricochet one part to another in this E. E. Cummings setting vividly portraying a...
Eric Whitacre has become a musical sensation across the globe. His new, chart-topping CD release Water Night comes hot on the heels of his Grammy award-winning album Light & Gold. This inspiring colle...
Eric Whitacre's Goodnight Moon for SATB and Piano. Duration: 5 minutes
Frequent collaborators Charles Anthony Silvestri and Eric Whitacre mixed things up and switched rolls for Each Morning She Walks, with Tony writing the music and Eric writing the text. The mystical po...
An adaptable arrangement of Whitacre's 'Sing Gently' arranged by Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant during the COVID-19 pandemic. An audio track that can be used to replace the piano part in performance is in...
A note from the composer: A Boy and a Girl is such a tender, delicate, exquisite poem. I simply tried to quiet myself and find the music hidden within the words. I'm often asked which of my compositio...
A brand new orchestration of Eric Whitacre's popular composition for concert band, Sleep for String Orchestra is a lush and achingly beautiful work. This haunting chorale begins softly and slowly then...
Sing Gently was written by Eric Whitacre in response to the 2020 global pandemic. Originally written for choir & piano, he adapted the work for string quartet and piano to create the soundtrack to the...
From the composer Eric Whitacre: Over the past six years I must have read Goodnight Moon to my son a thousand times, maybe more. Somewhere around reading number 500 I began hearing little musical frag...
GRAMMY® Award-winning American composer Eric Whitacre's symphonic work Deep Field was inspired by the world's most famous space observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and its greatest discovery, the...
The River Cam by Eric Whitacre, first performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 14 April 2011 by Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello) and the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Eric Whitacre.
Eric Whitacre's Goodnight Moon for Soprano and Piano. This is a setting of the text from Margaret Wise Brown's children's bedtime story, which tells of a child saying goodnight to everything around. I...
This loving and dreamlike work captures the undulating rhythm of a mother rocking her child to sleep. The piece was inspired by classic Rudyard Kipling: 'Oh! Hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us...
Sleep, My Child comes from Eric Whitacre's work for musical theater, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings. Originally written for two sopranos and mezzo (portrayed as three angels), it was adapted for ban...
Over the past few years I must have read Goodnight Moon to my son a thousand times - maybe more. Somewhere around reading number 500, I began hearing little musical fragments as I read, and over time...
