Gotta love that feeling when you and others produce a sound so unexpectedly powerful that it moves you and you can barely carry the tune. It's about as close as you can get on this earth to shaking God's hand.
@@andrewsinclair7159 It is a really interesting feeling. I've never had the experience to quite that extent, but in high school decades ago our choir performed once in a little old church that had just the perfect acoustics and it was really something.
can you please link some choire music i could learn from? most time i loose finding things... thank you,, or names of songs,, i love this music, i want to sing it💖
+Courtney Robbins I'm assuming Tenor 1? Because there's a girl in my school's choir doing the same, and doing pretty damn well lol. But I can tell that it is just slightly out of her comfort zone.
This piece has a sort of sad yet nostalgic feeling to it. It feels like it's a sort of "the calm after the storm" kind of music, like something terrible happened and someone is only just now getting the full view of the destruction "the storm" caused. Overall I feel that it's a great piece; arguably one of the best I've ever had the pleasure of hearing. Bravo, Eric Whitacre. Bravo.
this song is actually about the birth of jesus christ. it's supposed to sound like angels singing to the newborn baby. translated from latin it means this: light, warm and heavy pure like gold they sing and sing to the new born babe
Interpreted into a photo it kind of reminds me of the short peace after a war, everything broken around the warriors but the warriors feel at peace knowing the fight is finally over
im not really into choral music but dear lord, the chords in this song are absolutely incredible. no clue how people come up with this stuff. pure genius.
In Whitacre's case, he just jams the entire keyboard with his forearm :P. (in all seriousness, this guy's famous for using chords with every note in the scale).
That's so so hard God bless you. I'm a church organist but nowadays they require us to sing as well, hands, feet and vocal chords. I did my mom's funeral several months ago. No easy task.
Watermylon oh yes. I have dreams of this mixed into new types of music I can't even comprehend and forget the second I realize what I'm hearing but some people can hold onto those visions. I hope to bring some of mine into existence someday.
I once died from accidental poisoning, (lost twice, and brought back by both times by EMTs in the ambulance). I have often been asked what singing angels in heaven sound like. I tell people that this song is what is sounds like.
As a Soprano 1, I am truly honored to sing these beautiful notes for the last concert of my senior year along with a few other of Eric Whitacre's pieces. Truly an ethereal experience I may never forget.
music is a magical, universal language. it requires no words, yet it can speak to emotions directly. sure I listen to new electronic, and dubstep music all time, but I never forget the the classics.
My choir performed this song my senior year in highschool. We dimmed our auditorium and surrounded the audience during the performance. if I could go back in time, I would go back to that performance.
It suddenly struck me that the seconds of the video timer were not on beat, and it just felt wrong... I feel like time itself should slow for this song.
Lux, Calida gravisque pura velut aurum Et canunt angeli molliter modo natum. Light, warm and heavy as pure gold and angels sing softly to the new-born babe. Music is truly divine and thus some God within man, in its mystic ways, bridles the world with blissful sound that we may know the nature of Being and the art of Knowing. To Eric Whiticre...for bringing this sound so that we may glimpse that light.
Singing this as a soprano 1, while singing that beautiful faraway, siren high note at the beginning, was a honorable experience. I will never forget it.
The dissonance used from 2:30 to the end along with the held high note is so beautifully haunting and holds suspense up until its release. A beautiful work of art.
I was just thinking about how they physically sound...it's incredible isn't it. The V chord is so well executed phonetically and is so resonant. Unbelievable.
This was the first song I ever heard by Eric Whitacre. I sang it in my high school choir and I was so struck by the beauty of it that I broke down in tears afterwards.
I prefer to think of it as unique separateness, not at all deliberate rebellion. We are all intended to be as unique and irreplaceable as snowflakes or finger prints. There is room for all. All are justified in their existence at the command of God. Rise. Be. Loved.
There's actually not a lot of dissonance in this piece. Dissonant chords would be like tritones or other intervals that clash deliberately. You hear it a lot in horror film scores and that sort of music.
When my FATHER was tragically killed. I FLEW FROM SAN FRANCISCO to Vancouver. The pilot saw I was crying as he walked by and took me up to the Cockpit and I stayed floating through the clouds IT was getting dark. HE POINTED THE LIGHTS OF Portland Seattle and MORE.When I walked back to my seat, My Sister said well , lucky you why didn't he take me ? .... lol Beautiful music.
I am so happy to have had the soprano 1 solo for this song (despite being a mezzo soprano). This is one of the most beautiful, breathtaking pieces I have ever gotten the opportunity to sing.
My introduction to this was by my U.S. History teacher who told us to close our eyes and come up with a story of what we saw in our minds as we listened to this. I remember seeing the lights and painting this picture in my mind and translating it into words that I still didn't understand what it was.
Playing this piece for symphonic band but I personally enjoy the choir version lots more. Very calming and ethereal. I've listened to this while trying to fall asleep and it's actually helped me relax so much!
My band did this song for the ballad of this year's marching show. It was breathtaking; the first time we played it as an ensemble everybody was looking at his neighbor in astonishment.
I got to sing this with a combination of 8 student choirs, situated around a whole church on upper balconies. One of the most magical moments in my decade of singing in choirs. Remembering that moment helps calm me down in any situation.
Music that fills the air, truly like heavy gold. Im grateful to have experienced Lux Aurumque and Water Night not only as a listener, but also as part of a passionate choir. It pulls the soul right out of one's body!
I know exactly what you mean Sans. There are resonaces in this piece of music that go straight to our soul. This is his genius in creating these vibrations and sounds. If you have ever sung with a choir, there is nothing more uplifting.
We listened to this track for the first time in my chamber singers choir today, we haven't learned the piece yet but god, this is beautiful. I was fully entranced listening to it, I can't wait to learn this and perform it Edit 5/31/23: We actually didn't end up singing this when it was in season, lmao. We were supposed to sing this during our January concerts. Instead, we sang it during our Spring concert; and the audience LOVED it. My first performance was yesterday and I have another one coming up on Friday. I'm so excited about finally performing this beautiful piece.
I sang this song with my high school mu junior year. We dedicated this song to a guy in our class that had died in the summer by a tragic accident. His death changed the entire choir. Everytime I hear this it brings back all the memories and all the emotions. Its beautiful but also brings sadness.
I miss love...i hope one day ill find a love so deep it will snap me out of the broken dreams i set out for when i was 6 years old and the plan i made to be worthy for love
There are not many moments in the world that can have such an impact as to make feel like everything has come to a stop. This was absolutely breathtaking and you can feel the natural connection not just from those singing, but also from ourselves as we engage by listening. I sincerely hope this style of music survives throughout all of time, because it's far too beautiful not to!
I sang bass 2 for this and that last note was great i hit it but everyone else couldn't so it wasn't as powerful great work to eric whitacre with yet another masterpiece to truly put our voices to the test.
I'm an alto 2 and honestly the bass part at 1:48 to 1:56 always gets me because it's so low but so beautiful. You guys get the best parts of choral music
Seriously tho. . how in the hell do people dislike this!? This song is a great example of the most pure wholesome form of music produced by the human voice that can exist..
+Harrison Vital It is a good one. I think Whitacre has one better, in "When David Heard". The transition from the first "my son" ostinato into "Absolom" is heart-rending.
+Liko81DJ You're right, but also in his song "Hope, Faith, Life, Love" the chord that builds up from the sopranos to the basses on the word Truth is absolutely phenomenal, I performed it for my school chorale and it was, there are no words as to how it was live, it just WAS, thats how it made me feel, and the resolve in that song is outstanding as well, I agree totally
I think that they need to find life, and a deeper sense of appreciation of what people can create. I would ask them if they can compose anything that would be more beautiful than this.
We played this in band my senior year of high school in memory of one of our fellow bandsmen. He died earlier that year from a car crash. He was a great kid who was really going places. Behind us was a slide-show of his photos collected from himself, his family, and his friends Rest in peace, Trevor. Oct. 10, 1996-February 19, 2014
I will always dedicate this to 2 amazing former music professors. Dr. Craig Fuchs (rest so beautifully well Sir!) & Dr. Susan Marchant of Pittsburg State University in Kansas. So very blessed to have performed this work under their direction in ensembles.
I once sang this at my old high school choir, and we had a very bold bass section, myself included. I sang it in Salt Lake for Christmas in some mormon chapel that had golden resonance, and we were shaken by the spirit that day. It was snowy outside...
I first heard this piece when going through a horrific time in my life in 2007. What struck me is the how, under the correct circumstances, dissonance can sound almost erotically beautiful. I actually have the text from this song tattooed on my left forearm. That's how much I adore this piece.
My choir did this for Lessons & Carols in the King's Style today 12/13 at 5P....this blew everyone's mind! It certainly blew mine with those 'cluster chords'...... Thanks Sam Carabetta and the St. John's Choir for blowing us away!
During the outro while the Sopranos have the descant, the Bass 2's hitting the half step really make that chord an absolute and heaven feeling sound. My gosh bless you Eric, you have done it again:)
I got to sing soprano 1 descant for this song in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. It was the highest honor of my entire life!
Hayden Robak Wouldn't it be coral then?
Omg I’ve heard the cathedral in Notre Dame are absolutely gorgeous and amazing to sing in, I’m so jealous
Jordyn Kulawik I sang this last year when I was 14, the bass 2 part was so fun 😂😂 c#2
that is beautiful
I live in Indiana as well, plus this was a fun song to perform
I wish I could listen to this again for the first time
I am now and I am blown away
Mimi's Favorites Every Whitacre piece I hear I wish I could turn back time and hear again for the first time
A wish I share for some pieces of music. It is so deljcate.
I’ve been listening to this piece since I was in 6th grade. I’m 21 now, and I feel this.
I just did and OMG its so beautiful 😍
My choir had the opportunity to sing this in a cathedral in Ireland, and oh man it brought us all to tears
+Buffalo Nuggets is there a recording of it because i would love to hear it
Gotta love that feeling when you and others produce a sound so unexpectedly powerful that it moves you and you can barely carry the tune. It's about as close as you can get on this earth to shaking God's hand.
@@andrewsinclair7159 It is a really interesting feeling. I've never had the experience to quite that extent, but in high school decades ago our choir performed once in a little old church that had just the perfect acoustics and it was really something.
can you please link some choire music i could learn from? most time i loose finding things... thank you,, or names of songs,, i love this music, i want to sing it💖
I'm Irish-American and I've heard stories about that place (I think I know which one you are talking about), planning on going there.
I sang tenor in this song (as a woman) and it was exhausting-- requires so much focus and brain power. But so awesome and transcendent.
Same here! Such an amazing experience!
+Courtney Robbins I'm assuming Tenor 1? Because there's a girl in my school's choir doing the same, and doing pretty damn well lol. But I can tell that it is just slightly out of her comfort zone.
+Vynomous I sang as a girl Tenor for this song, too. So rewarding~
I sang bass and the end was so freaking hard
I sang as a second soprano, but it was amazing. I got chills every time my choir practiced.
This piece has a sort of sad yet nostalgic feeling to it. It feels like it's a sort of "the calm after the storm" kind of music, like something terrible happened and someone is only just now getting the full view of the destruction "the storm" caused. Overall I feel that it's a great piece; arguably one of the best I've ever had the pleasure of hearing. Bravo, Eric Whitacre. Bravo.
this song is actually about the birth of jesus christ. it's supposed to sound like angels singing to the newborn baby.
translated from latin it means this:
light, warm and heavy
pure like gold
they sing and sing
to the new born babe
@@ernst_junger The original English can be found on Eric Whitacre's website: ericwhitacre.com/music-catalog/lux-aurumque
It feels more cosmic and calm to me
@@spiccyboisupreme8536 Angelic beings are pretty cosmic and calm. Unless you mess with them...or God...then not so calm.
Interpreted into a photo it kind of reminds me of the short peace after a war, everything broken around the warriors but the warriors feel at peace knowing the fight is finally over
im not really into choral music but dear lord, the chords in this song are absolutely incredible. no clue how people come up with this stuff. pure genius.
ian Nabeel, your description as to why the piece works, is almost as beautiful as the piece itself. Bravo.
Eric Whitacre's writing is ethereal.
In Whitacre's case, he just jams the entire keyboard with his forearm :P.
(in all seriousness, this guy's famous for using chords with every note in the scale).
@@josephbrandenburg4373 alright guys here are your pitches! *blows every note in the pitch pipe*
Because Whitacre
My little brother passed away suddenly. Im using this to find space, to breathe and feel. Thank you.
Link2thepast I’m so sorry for your loss 😔
That's so so hard God bless you. I'm a church organist but nowadays they require us to sing as well, hands, feet and vocal chords. I did my mom's funeral several months ago. No easy task.
this song is like audible chocolate
chew baccam indeed
Omg yas
Yes.... ORGANIC, audible, dark chocolate!
Only if that chocolate is one from Heaven
Instant Band Name.
Pretty sure this is what heaven sounds like
Watermylon oh yes. I have dreams of this mixed into new types of music I can't even comprehend and forget the second I realize what I'm hearing but some people can hold onto those visions. I hope to bring some of mine into existence someday.
I once died from accidental poisoning, (lost twice, and brought back by both times by EMTs in the ambulance). I have often been asked what singing angels in heaven sound like. I tell people that this song is what is sounds like.
Watermylon Heavan would be Mahler 2
Why would anyone "trust" what someone called *baconman* says?
@@alisonwunderland9900 because he is baconman
bacon is always the way to go
I sang this piece at Carnegie Hall. Still literally gives me chills and makes my hair stand on end
Our choir is performing this at Carnegie hall in March!
Kylee May tell them all I said break a leg
+Kylee May who sings that really high part at the beginning?
OMG..... hearing this at Carnegie Hall has to be THE most amazing thing ever.
I performed this at Carnegie Hall with Whitacre in April of 2019! It was amazing.
As a Soprano 1, I am truly honored to sing these beautiful notes for the last concert of my senior year along with a few other of Eric Whitacre's pieces. Truly an ethereal experience I may never forget.
Eric Whitacre, you wonderful masterpiece of a human being, never fail to bring chills to my skin and tears to my eyes.
My choir is finally singing this and I'm so excited to sing another one of Eric Whitacre's pieces. He's a freaking genius
music is a magical, universal language. it requires no words, yet it can speak to emotions directly. sure I listen to new electronic, and dubstep music all time, but I never forget the the classics.
I don't know why, but when I heard about the Notre Dame fire, this is the first place I came
My choir performed this song my senior year in highschool. We dimmed our auditorium and surrounded the audience during the performance. if I could go back in time, I would go back to that performance.
It suddenly struck me that the seconds of the video timer were not on beat, and it just felt wrong... I feel like time itself should slow for this song.
Lux,
Calida gravisque pura velut aurum
Et canunt angeli molliter
modo natum.
Light,
warm and heavy as pure gold
and angels sing softly
to the new-born babe.
Music is truly divine and thus some God within man, in its mystic ways, bridles the world with blissful sound that we may know the nature of Being and the art of Knowing. To Eric Whiticre...for bringing this sound so that we may glimpse that light.
~~~Wolfsong
*baby*, babe sounds weird xD
DB Ramil
Babe is more appropriate for the diction and tone he’s using
true dat i guess... lol
Aaaahhhh SHAAADUP!
Singing this as a soprano 1, while singing that beautiful faraway, siren high note at the beginning, was a honorable experience. I will never forget it.
Wow, I love how the soloist at :34 stays so on pitch - beautiful
The dissonance used from 2:30 to the end along with the held high note is so beautifully haunting and holds suspense up until its release. A beautiful work of art.
From 3:10-3:40 that is one of the most beautiful key changes I have ever heard. Completely in love with that part.
Oh my god the "natum's" are incredible, i cant even
The chords at 3:18 to 3:20, when I listen its as if I can't breathe because its too beautiful. I am in pure love with this music.
I was just thinking about how they physically sound...it's incredible isn't it. The V chord is so well executed phonetically and is so resonant. Unbelievable.
And to think that it only took the chord to make it beautiful was the Bass 2 Half step up, genius
His music often has that effect on me, too.
Wondrous stuff, isn't it... I keep coming back to it, year after year. I don't think that'll ever change.
Agreed, except, it's a minor ii chord, and the basses go up a whole step.
oh "2 half step"...ok
This was the first song I ever heard by Eric Whitacre. I sang it in my high school choir and I was so struck by the beauty of it that I broke down in tears afterwards.
This is simply breathtaking. Eric Whitacre has a gift for choral composing.
His chords are always so perfectly dissonant. The virtual choirs are amazing, too... Just a little taste of what heaven must be like, perfect bliss
Beauty in Dissonance.
I prefer to think of it as unique separateness, not at all deliberate rebellion. We are all intended to be as unique and irreplaceable as snowflakes or finger prints. There is room for all. All are justified in their existence at the command of God. Rise. Be. Loved.
There's actually not a lot of dissonance in this piece. Dissonant chords would be like tritones or other intervals that clash deliberately. You hear it a lot in horror film scores and that sort of music.
Andrew Sinclair theres ALOT of 3rd and 4th dissonance in the major chords, so like half-step dissonant which is pretty dissonant as it rarely resolves
@@HelloHello-vk5ob I might be wrong, it's been over a decade since I dropped out of music school.
Heard this on a flight to hawaii. There's NOTHING like flying 40,000 feet up in the air listening to serene music like this.
When my FATHER was tragically killed. I FLEW FROM SAN FRANCISCO to Vancouver. The pilot saw I was crying as he walked by and took me up to the Cockpit and I stayed floating through the clouds IT was getting dark. HE POINTED
THE LIGHTS OF Portland Seattle and
MORE.When I walked back to my seat,
My Sister said well , lucky you why didn't he take me ? .... lol Beautiful music.
Every time I hear this piece I literally almost cry, just because of the beauty of it.
I am so happy to have had the soprano 1 solo for this song (despite being a mezzo soprano). This is one of the most beautiful, breathtaking pieces I have ever gotten the opportunity to sing.
My introduction to this was by my U.S. History teacher who told us to close our eyes and come up with a story of what we saw in our minds as we listened to this.
I remember seeing the lights and painting this picture in my mind and translating it into words that I still didn't understand what it was.
So beautiful to have a teacher who taught From the heart.
Its weird that a piece of music such as this can exhibit such emotion without speaking an english word. this is raw proof of the power of music
Playing this piece for symphonic band but I personally enjoy the choir version lots more. Very calming and ethereal. I've listened to this while trying to fall asleep and it's actually helped me relax so much!
10/10, the most beautiful thing I have ever heard.
My choir is singing this, and oh my god... The progression from 1:48 is just heavenly.
Ditto. I know right?
For me the heavenly bit starts a bit earlier, with the "Pura" opening like a flower
ilzedia ooooor get this....a line or light breaking off into different rays of light
When we sang this song in my school's chamber choir (I'm an alto 2) 1:48 to 1:56 always made me cry because of how beautiful it is
My band did this song for the ballad of this year's marching show. It was breathtaking; the first time we played it as an ensemble everybody was looking at his neighbor in astonishment.
I got to sing this with a combination of 8 student choirs, situated around a whole church on upper balconies. One of the most magical moments in my decade of singing in choirs. Remembering that moment helps calm me down in any situation.
I just heard this song on tiktok and immediately fell in love! This is so pure!
I've sung this many times and performed the small solo and I fall in ove with it more every time
Music that fills the air, truly like heavy gold. Im grateful to have experienced Lux Aurumque and Water Night not only as a listener, but also as part of a passionate choir. It pulls the soul right out of one's body!
When the tenor 1's sing Et canunt angeli it gives me chills... I had the honor of being able to sing that, I love this piece so much
I know exactly what you mean Sans. There are resonaces in this piece of music that go straight to our soul. This is his genius in creating these vibrations and sounds. If you have ever sung with a choir, there is nothing more uplifting.
God, this song completely penetrated inside me, I cry endlessly when I hear this song. So dark, so depressed .. I love it
Like angels in heaven. Just beautiful. Wow!
We listened to this track for the first time in my chamber singers choir today, we haven't learned the piece yet but god, this is beautiful. I was fully entranced listening to it, I can't wait to learn this and perform it
Edit 5/31/23: We actually didn't end up singing this when it was in season, lmao. We were supposed to sing this during our January concerts. Instead, we sang it during our Spring concert; and the audience LOVED it. My first performance was yesterday and I have another one coming up on Friday. I'm so excited about finally performing this beautiful piece.
I sang this song with my high school mu junior year. We dedicated this song to a guy in our class that had died in the summer by a tragic accident. His death changed the entire choir. Everytime I hear this it brings back all the memories and all the emotions. Its beautiful but also brings sadness.
Let me just say that performing this song is exhausting. Especially when you're use to singing mezzo piano and up.
Have sung it several times, with Washington Bach Consort and with a couple different church choirs. It's hard to sing, but so beautiful.
my choir is singing this omg i'm sooo excited
kaity kaaait same
me too!!
kaity kaaait mine too!
kaity kaaait haha me too!!! I'm so pumped!
Mine is too! Literally almost cried listening to it the first time before we started rehearsing!
Sang this song my last year of choir. I miss choir so much. My choir was so so good. I'd do anything to be there one more time :/
Beth TheGemini keep singing!!!
The way this choir sings is almost out worldly. If there was a song that represented creation this would be it
That cadence on angeli takes me Everytime.
Remember playing this in band my freshman year. Good times, back when I was terrible at trumpet.
A late night like this, brings me back here to calm me... I haven't heard this song in years..... calming... beautiful.... even amongst all worry...
How can anyone dislike this? This song touched my heart and soul!
I miss love...i hope one day ill find a love so deep it will snap me out of the broken dreams i set out for when i was 6 years old and the plan i made to be worthy for love
The only reason I love these songs is because I'm in band, thank u band 😍😭
Singing this in choir... Such an ethereal piece.
There are not many moments in the world that can have such an impact as to make feel like everything has come to a stop. This was absolutely breathtaking and you can feel the natural connection not just from those singing, but also from ourselves as we engage by listening. I sincerely hope this style of music survives throughout all of time, because it's far too beautiful not to!
Doing this piece in my choir class next semester... I'll be crying but I'm not ashamed of how beautiful it is.
Sang this with my university's chamber choir at the Duomo di Milano! Absolutely sublime...
I’m singing this at my concert this weekend and I can’t wait it sounds sooooo good!!
I sang bass 2 for this and that last note was great i hit it but everyone else couldn't so it wasn't as powerful great work to eric whitacre with yet another masterpiece to truly put our voices to the test.
I'm an alto 2 and honestly the bass part at 1:48 to 1:56 always gets me because it's so low but so beautiful. You guys get the best parts of choral music
Pure Genius!
its so beautiful.. beginning makes me cry every single time I listen to this piece
THIS TOUCHES MY SOUL SO MUCH OMG
I got to play this song on the bass clarinet with my high school band and it was fun, this is a song i will truly remember for my entire life
I swear to God this music is not of this earth 🌍
This song brings me back 15 years to my senior year of high school. 🤧💜
i remember we made our band director cry when we played this for our last recital senior year.
How can anybody dislike this. I'm kind of shocked and a bit sad.
Tony Smith i love my self some death metal but this is utterly beautiful. Its probably trolls lol
Eric Whitacre, thank you for perfection.
close your eyes when you listen to this...
I'd rather stare majestically at the sun or the stars
My choir is doing this and I get chills every time we rehearse. So beautiful. Damn.
Imagining Cas restoring Dean's soul while listening to this song is pure heaven.
Our band performed this piece as our ballad of our 2012 show. I still keep listening to it because it is so amazing. Never forget Alchemy :)
Hey, Fort mills? I saw your show. I actually thought of you guys before Whitacre when we got this piece for Symphonic band.
bobafett1299 Really? That's awesome! Where are you from? :)
Miamisburg. South of Dayton. Saw you guys in Ann Arbor last year. We played the Eye of the Storm.
bobafett1299 We miss the Ohio regional a lot! The 9 hour bus ride was always the best :)
this song is very soothing my sister did a wonderful job in singing this B A utifull chorus i am very proud of Mr.Graham
this has GOT to be the sounds in heaven !
My choir sang this and I loved singing this song. It's so beautiful
Seriously tho. . how in the hell do people dislike this!? This song is a great example of the most pure wholesome form of music produced by the human voice that can exist..
Some people just aren't born with souls...
+Jacob Snow You are right... It baffles me still tho. For I must have two..
Listen to 2.16 to 2.27: absolutely magical harmony!
At 2:22, by far the most beautiful resolve to a choral piece I have ever heard, my ears are in rapture :D
+Harrison Vital It is a good one. I think Whitacre has one better, in "When David Heard". The transition from the first "my son" ostinato into "Absolom" is heart-rending.
+Liko81DJ You're right, but also in his song "Hope, Faith, Life, Love" the chord that builds up from the sopranos to the basses on the word Truth is absolutely phenomenal, I performed it for my school chorale and it was, there are no words as to how it was live, it just WAS, thats how it made me feel, and the resolve in that song is outstanding as well, I agree totally
The cadence to Schnittke's Psalms of Repentance No.2 is one of the best I have heard.
The harmonies in this piece send my soul and my body temporarily out of phase with each other.
Golden light, like a pure vision of heaven; this, is music!
The 30 people that dislike this song need to go find a soul
+Jake Boers Go easy on them. They don't know that they lack one. :-)
Oof! xD
I think that they need to find life, and a deeper sense of appreciation of what people can create. I would ask them if they can compose anything that would be more beautiful than this.
White Eagle watch me
Here we have it, kids, someone who can't grasp the concept that some people have different musical tastes than them.
We played this in band my senior year of high school in memory of one of our fellow bandsmen. He died earlier that year from a car crash. He was a great kid who was really going places. Behind us was a slide-show of his photos collected from himself, his family, and his friends Rest in peace, Trevor. Oct. 10, 1996-February 19, 2014
the key change towards the end is so seamless I love it
Sang this recently with my choir (in Halifax UK) and it was a weird and wonderful experience. Magical, really.
I heard this tonight for the first time on Classic FM. It is absolutely gorgeous - a peach. God bless Eric for giving us this.
We sang this song in my chorus class and it has always stood out in my memory as being such a beautiful piece.
I will always dedicate this to 2 amazing former music professors. Dr. Craig Fuchs (rest so beautifully well Sir!) & Dr. Susan Marchant of Pittsburg State University in Kansas. So very blessed to have performed this work under their direction in ensembles.
I sang, solo, the first tenor part in this and it blew my mind away when I heard the recording afterwards. This is sublime. Such beautiful music.
Never had a song ever give me as many goosebumps as these songs give me. Purely beautiful peaces of music.
I got to sing tunor with my school chior in walvis ,Namibia,Africa it was fun making people full on excited
One of my favorite selections we played in wind ensemble. Yes we made our instruments sound like voices 😏😌
I once sang this at my old high school choir, and we had a very bold bass section, myself included. I sang it in Salt Lake for Christmas in some mormon chapel that had golden resonance, and we were shaken by the spirit that day. It was snowy outside...
I first heard this piece when going through a horrific time in my life in 2007. What struck me is the how, under the correct circumstances, dissonance can sound almost erotically beautiful. I actually have the text from this song tattooed on my left forearm. That's how much I adore this piece.
My choir did this for Lessons & Carols in the King's Style today 12/13 at 5P....this blew everyone's mind! It certainly blew mine with those 'cluster chords'......
Thanks Sam Carabetta and the St. John's Choir for blowing us away!
Somehow it looks like the image on the screen is getting bigger..
+Raymond Alcantara That happens when you hit full screen.
+Henry Davis XD
because it is
I got to sing this last month with Eric Whitacre at Carnegie Hall
During the outro while the Sopranos have the descant, the Bass 2's hitting the half step really make that chord an absolute and heaven feeling sound. My gosh bless you Eric, you have done it again:)
Singing this song as a first soprano for honors choir. I have to learn the music by myself. Wish me luck! Amazing song, truly.