Eric Whitacre

Commissioned by Philip Brunelle artistic director of VocalEssence (Minneapolis Minnesota) Nox Aurumque was premiered on 22 March 2009 at Orchestra Hall with the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and the St. Olaf Choir. CoroCitt Di Roma gave the first performance in Italy on 20th June 2009 conducted by Maestro Mauro Marchetti.Arranged for SATB choir and includes a Piano part on the score for rehearsal purposes.

Commissioned by the University of Miami School of Music for its 75th anniversary celebrations Five Hebrew Love Songs is a wonderful collection of settings of beautiful Hebrew poetry by the composer's wife Hila Plitmann. The songs in this edition are arranged for SATB chorus with Violin solo and Piano accompaniment.

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.

This a cappella collection of pieces for mixed choir by Eric Whitacre is the first available printed music compilation of its kind for the composer. The book includes pieces of varying difficulty wide-rangingin theme from the iconic Sleep and Water Night to the quietly angelic Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) and the recent Nox Aurumque (Night and Gold). A Boy and a Girl and ThisMarriage are both wonderfully tender pieces and the inclusion of the early Go Lovely Rose marks the beginning of a journey through Whitacre's choral output from this first success to the present day.Eric Whitacre is a Los Angeles-based composer and conductor who is held in the highest esteem everywhere inspiring and motivating a new generation of singers and musicians. His music creates a visceral impassioned response in audiences and performers. In 2008 the all-Whitacre choral CD 'Cloudburst' released by the British ensemble Polyphony on Hyperion Records became and unexpected international best-seller topping theclassical charts and earning a Grammy nomination. The BBC raves that 'what hits you straight between the eyes is the honesty optimism and sheer belief that passes any pretension. This is music that can actually make yousmile'.

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.

Three Songs of Faith (No. 2)-The second of Whitacre's three Songs Of Faith all set to poems by e.e. cummings for SSAATTBB chorus.

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 the final sudden ?stop? for an extraordinary concert finale. Duration: ca. 3:45.