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Lux Aurumque is a short choral work by American composer Eric Whitacre, written in 2000 for unaccompanied mixed choir. It sets a Latin translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri of an English poem by Edward Esch, using sustained chords, close harmonic spacing, and carefully controlled dissonance to ev...
Sleep is an unaccompanied choral work by American composer Eric Whitacre, completed around 2000 and set to a text by poet Charles Anthony Silvestri. Its slow harmonic movement, sustained clusters, and carefully controlled dissonances create a quiet musical treatment of rest, night, and release. Writ...
Water Night is an a cappella choral composition by American composer Eric Whitacre, written in the mid-1990s. It sets an English translation of a poem by Mexican writer and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, using closely spaced harmonies, sustained sonorities, and shifting vocal textures for mixed choir....
Cloudburst is a choral composition by American composer Eric Whitacre, based on a Spanish-language poem by Octavio Paz. Written for mixed choir with piano and percussion, it includes spoken and sung passages as well as body percussion used to imitate the gathering sound of rain and a thunderstorm. T...
Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine is an unaccompanied choral work by American composer Eric Whitacre, composed in 2001. It sets a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri that imagines Leonardo da Vinci's thoughts, dreams, and frustrations as he pursues the possibility of human flight. Written for mixe...
Alleluia by Eric Whitacre (b. 1970) is a contemporary American choral work known for its lush, tone-cluster harmonies and meditative quality, widely performed by amateur and professional choirs.
A Boy and a Girl (2009) by Eric Whitacre is a brief a cappella setting of a poem by Octavio Paz, characteristic of his cluster-chord harmonic language and among his most economically scored works.
