Another classical makeover comes in the latest CD from the young choral composer Eric Whitacre. It's called Cloudburst. Our reviewer Tom Schnabel says the music is optimistically American and should ...

Eric Whitacre originally joined the choir because a friend of his said you could meet pretty women there. Instead he was smitten by choral music-Mozart's Requiem in particular--- and now his new cd ...

I remember years ago, while living in my little rent-controlled apartment in Santa Monica, listening to the lilting Duruflé Requiem, calmly dreaming away, awash in the lovely choral music. A next door ...

"The Sacred Veil" is a collaboration between composer Eric Whitacre and lyric poet Charles Anthony Silvestri that will make its local debut with newly formed chamber choir Sonus. Classical KC's ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – As if getting to perform at Severance or Blossom Music Center weren’t attractive enough, the Cleveland Orchestra just made the prospect of being an adult or youth chorister even more ...

The texts are by an aristocracy of poets as might be apprehended by a smart 21st century composer – poets as varied as Octavio Paz, Rumi, James Joyce, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Edmund Waller, ...

On Sunday, April 7th at 5 PM, Key Chorale Chamber Singers will present some of Whitacre and Lauridsen’s most hauntingly beautiful works full of lush harmonies. Hear the Florida premiere of Whitacre’s ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Heralded as one of the 21st Century's greatest composers, Whitacre's works have ...

"What if our departed loved ones are not truly gone, but are closer than we think? How can we mourn those we have lost while still moving forward? We have all experienced the loss, in one way or ...

Eric Whitacre grew up in Reno, Nev., where he studied piano and yearned to become a rock star. But at 18 he sang Mozart’s “Requiem” and suddenly was bewitched by choral music. Today he is one of the ...