Eric Whitacre - The Seal Lullaby (Album version w Lyrics)
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Eric Whitacre:
"In the spring of 2004 I was lucky enough to have my show Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings presented at the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop. The workshop is the brainchild of legendary composer Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell), and his insights about the creative process were profoundly helpful. He became a great mentor and friend to the show and, I am honored to say, to me personally.
Soon after the workshop I received a call from a major film studio. Stephen had recommended me to them and they wanted to know if I might be interested in writing music for an animated feature. I was incredibly excited, said yes, and took the meeting.
The creative executives with whom I met explained that the studio heads had always wanted to make an epic adventure, a classic animated film based on Kipling’s The White Seal. I have always loved animation (the early Disney films; Looney Tunes; everything Pixar makes) and I couldn’t believe that I might get a chance to work in that grand tradition on such great material.
The White Seal is a beautiful story, classic Kipling, dark and rich and not at all condescending to kids. Best of all, Kipling begins his tale with the mother seal singing softly to her young pup. (The opening poem is called The Seal Lullaby).
I was struck so deeply by those first beautiful words, and a simple, sweet Disney-esque song just came gushing out of me. I wrote it down as quickly as I could, had my wife record it while I accompanied her at the piano, and then dropped it off at the film studio.
I didn’t hear anything from them for weeks and weeks, and I began to despair. Did they hate it? Was it too melodically complex? Did they even listen to it? Finally, I called them, begging to know the reason that they had rejected my tender little song. “Oh,” said the exec, “we decided to make Kung Fu Panda instead.”
So I didn’t do anything with it, just sang it to my baby son every night to get him to go to sleep. (Success rate: less than 50%.) And a few years later the Towne Singers graciously commissioned this arrangement of it. I’m grateful to them for giving it a new life. And I’m especially grateful to Stephen Schwartz, to whom the piece is dedicated. His friendship and invaluable tutelage has meant more to me than I could ever tell him."
Recreated and re-uploaded video because I found a better audio source (FLAC/Lossless) instead of MP3. The audio is also very quiet even at it's loudest so a significant 6 dB boost was added to the volume. I made sure there is no clipping, so there has been no degradation of quality.
I also was having issues with RUclips miss identifying the artist as Seal, the UK pop singer. I opened a ticket with them and realized that they had already fixed the issue. So to prevent my account from getting a strike I removed the video and re-uploaded it. Sorry to everyone who had this video bookmarked.
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Artist: Eric Whitacre
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We got to sing this WITH Eric Whitacre conducting us in LA around....3 years ago! He was amazing! Funniest moment was before we started he did a Q&A with the Choir. One of our girls raised her hand like a fangirl and shouted "WHAT CONDITIONER DO YOU USE!?" And, as majestic as a lion, he flipped his glorious mane of hair and replied: I don't use conditioner.....All women in the theater immediately got pregnant.
OMG greatest....comment....ever hahahahaha
That's awesome.
lol!
So I read the comment and not having ever seen him, I went to google wondering if it really is that glorious... And by god, yes it is.
go to his facebook and look at every single profile picture. i promise it will not disappoint
Carson Cox OMG YES
My choir teacher left because she is having a baby and our new "sub" is teaching us this song so when she visits, we can sing her baby this lullaby *-* so cute
BritneyEuan That's so sweet.
+BritneyEuan Did it turn out? She should have had her baby by now lol
Emma J great :) its a girl
lol.
Did it turn out?
Yeah. It's a girl.
did she cry, because I would LOL
I do seal rescue in Orkney, and recently had to put a pup to sleep because they weren't going to make it. Thank you for giving me a song to say goodbye to my 'weary wee flipperling'.
I sing to the seals, and sometimes they sing back. This song isn't far from the voices of a seal colony singing as the sky and sea changes colour on a calm midsummer night.
❤❤😢
I used to work at the Brough of Birsay. One of the delights was listening to the seals on the skerries across the causeway. I'm glad you do the work you do!
This was the last choir song that our high school choir teacher taught my class in senior year before he passed away from cancer. He was like a father to us more than a teacher. Losing him was like losing a parent. Rest easy, Wes Rainer, you left a wonderful and powerful impact on every student to set foot in your classroom. ❤️
I'm sorry for what happened to your teacher back then🤗😔
Wow I'm so sorry, but what a song to go out on. You're making me cry 😢
can i just point out that "wee flipperling" is pretty much the cutest description of any animal ever?
@@reverend546 it's both-- see the words in the video, which are set exactly as Kipling wrote them - "weary, wee flipperling." And yes, it's just about the most adorable pet name for a baby animal ever. :)
Weary wee flipperling
The soprano 1 part (all woman’s choir) is wee weary flipperling, but the soprano 2 part (what I do) is three beats on only weary (so we skip the wee part) and go straight to flipperling curl. Just saying this is how our choir does it I’m guessing there are many possible ways and more musically correct definitions for it.
We flippering 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
Dajah Love, like you’ve never made a mistake in your life.
Fun fact, this song was composed for a Dreamworks film about a seal but got cancelled. I learned this when I was given this song for my choir back in High School.
Yup! So that Kung Fu Panda could be made 😭😒 I would much rather have the seal lullaby!
+Courtney Themm (kittycar98) Don't worry, Dreamworks don't deserve his talent! 😠 I've been pissed off at them lately because they used to make such gorgeous films like Prince of Egypt, El Dorado, Spirit and Joseph King of Dreams. But then they made Shrek 3 and everything went downhill. Sure HTTYD was good, but it's got nothing on the books. Kung Fu Panda was good but I never got into the story. And then you have garbage like Shark Tale, Monsters vs Aliens, Home, Over the Hedge, Shrek 4 just ugh!
Rise of the Guardians is their best in my opinion next to Megamind. But I wish they started making 2D again, because a lot of the time they just rip off Disney and Pixar.
Pixar or Studio Ghibli would be better people to choose to make this film or any Kipling story.
However, we do have something close. An Irish animated film called "Song of the Sea." There's a lullaby in this too, in Gaelic that's just beautiful and one of the characters turns into a white seal because she's a selkie and Oh I can't describe how amazing it is!
As a Scot, the Celtic culture was really nice. Just like Pixar's Brave I felt honoured that they would make stories based on the mythos of Alba and Eire 😊
ThatNerdGirl 7 I totally agree with you, Dreamworks has had so many movies that have basically flopped and have since been mostly forgotten about. ill never forget the good ones though like megamind or road to el dorado! they would have made a MAJOR comeback if they made the seal lullaby though! Mr. Eric Whitacre would have saved all of them, but no, Kung Fu Panda had to be made instead :(
This song still exists, but Oogway ascends would not exist without kung fu panda, which is a no no.
@@birdiex8757 well said!
when i read whitacre himself tell his story of this composition i was very disapointed, because "the white seal" is one of my fave stories in the jungle books collection - btw. this is how i came to whitacre: because i told someone about the white seal and he recommended this music to me - i´m forever thankful for that, haha... :-)
love and greetngs from germany
Am I the only one who gets super tingly vibes at the “so green” and “thy ease” part?
God I love the dissonance between the tenors and altos on “curl” before at thy ease
Me too!
I love those too
nope! me too, for sure
Me too! My speakers tend to peak out though
I’m 3.5 years into college and I still remember every word from my time in choir 🥺 I miss music
There are lots of good choirs around...most town/cities have them. Join up.
Gabby?
Miss it too. Studying for medical boards, no time for this unfortunately
I’ve been out of high school for seven years and I still know this song word for word
This is one of my favorite songs, period. It just has that special something that makes me nostalgic for things that never happened.
Not to you anyway.
wow that is the best description I have heard of this song
Like the movie that this was written for that never happened? RIP.
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Beautifully expressed!
The dislikes are a result of the slipping fingers from the chills this song gave them
It's garbage.
Oops, slipping fingers again !
Archist Agreed
Honestly I think those dislikes come from people who can't understand the words, due to the complex layering. Without the posted lyrics, I can't understand any of them myself ;)
@@ricomon35 agreed. If I have one criticism of Eric Whitacre songs, both as a singer and as a listener, it's the difficulty of maintaining clear diction while doing justice to the pure tone the music deserves.
We sang this in my choir back in High School, its still one of my favorites. I would have loved to see the movie Disney had originally intended to make.
It was dreamworks
Andrew Boyd So it was. My bad
+gingergiggles Me too. BUt Kung fu panda was made instead.
:l
You could take a look at Song of the Sea. It's a lovely little movie about selkies (seal shapeshifters) with beautiful (traditional) animation. Not Disney, but it has a similarly child-appropriate storyline.
@@nataliehaught9694 Yes! its such a good movie
Let it be known that on this day of September 25th 2017, "The Seal Lullaby" reached 1 million views. Such a gorgeous piece.
Fried Oreo so it did, awesome! Thanks to Eric Whitacre for composing such a wonderful piece.
Yes and thank you for uploading! My curiosity led me to click years ago and I watched the views climb. Here's to another million!
Happy (belated) one year anniversary to 1M views!
And by today, September 27, 2023, "The Seal Lullaby" has reached 2.4 million views. A truly beautiful piece that will live on forever!
Im singing this in my school choir, it is truelly an honor.
+Katarina Sutherlin I really wish you guys would record your performances then post them here, I'd love to hear them!
Same here? What school?
oh lol not mine i was bout to be like um are you in my school? lol
+Katarina Sutherlin I did too my senior year 2014 :) It was my favorite song we did.
I was a soprano btw
Truly*
Note to self: listening to Eric Whitacre’s “Seal Lullaby” when rocking your one year old grandson to sleep really helps him relax and fall asleep. 🎶❤️🎶
Note to self: listening to Eric Whitacre’s “Seal Lullaby” while looking at your beautiful sleeping grandson makes Grandpa cry… a lot. ❤️😢
We're doing this for choir and I'm just crying because it's too beautiful like FINALLY A GOOD SONG TO SING
You will not be disappointed. This is one of the few songs I loved doing when I was in choir. This song and others makes me miss it, :)
Eric Whitacre is an amazing composer.
Ahhh we're doing it in band and it's absolutely beautiful!! It makes me want to cry.
Sang last year for annual competition. I sing it as an actual lullaby to little kids all the time. I'm a first soprano, but every part does something special and stunning here. So fun and beautiful!
we're singing it too and im nearing tears just learning it like *how am i ever going to perform this and finish in a stable condition*
Sang this for chorus altos represent
+Emily Alex Yess alto life
Alto gang alto gang ✊👊
I sang the arrangement for this rice made for an all women’s choir and being a proud alto 2 I can say the alto part is the hardest
aaaayyyy
Emily Alex ✊🏾✊🏾
Today during Chorus, whilst singing this song, the younger kids at our school were playing soccer. I watched them out of the window, it felt like someone had died, as if in a movie, and we were recapping their childhood. So beautiful, so wonderful. The intro and ending with the 'ooos' that replicate calming waves are perfect. Thank you, Eric Whitacre.
this song sounds so cool in the middle of a thunderstorm.
just imagining that in my head now, especialy since there was one last night
rainymood
It really is, I'm listening to it during a thunderstorm right now
It would be hard to hear though.
No joke was listening to this during a thunderstorm yesterday
I had the privilege to sing this song in Honor Choir as a first soprano...and it has become my favorite song, gives me chills and emotions each time I hear it...still remember every word, too. I have a video of the honor choir I was in singing the song, and at the end the conductor was just teary and nodding his head like "You did it!" and, goodness! Adore this beautiful song.
Get it ^-^
My school choir sang this and it was one of the most beautiful choral pieces we had ever received. It puts you in such a calming and soothing state of mind and with everyone so in love with the song, it came out twice as gorgeous. Even the audience was in awe when we performed it. Unforgettable. :)
I lost my mom, she died some days ago, I found refugee for my grieve in this music… im so sorry for everyone’s loses, I feel you all. I miss my mother so badly
my DREAM is to sing this beauty w my high school choir. i don’t care if it’s TMEA, school choir, or whatever else. i’m going to sing this. I MUST
Singing this in choir right now, it's literally everyone's favorite, including me. It makes me want to cry, and I honestly am not 100% sure why
Probably because it is pure and breathtakingly beautiful!
It follows, in its scale and breathing, the crying of a person.
Me too 🙏
I sang this when I was in high school both my sophomore and senior year. This piece is one of the most precious ones I did. My only regret is we didn't sing more of Eric Whitacre's songs. That man can write some beautiful ass music!
The most beautiful song I have ever heard. I will be singing this to my future children.
My daughter performed this in a choir and it is and absolutely hypnotic song. Beautiful.
+Ladd Wimmer Awesome, how old?
+AluminumHaste High School Choir
+Ladd Wimmer That's so cool. Our choir in grade school never did anything good. I mean we did things like Aladin's I Can Show You the World, but nothing like this.
Then in highschool it was so bad I didn't even bother joining the choir. Glad she is doing something this amazing.
We sang this with the Swedish Church choir in London back in 2014 and I absolutely loved it. This was ten years ago and I miss that choir very much.
The Seal Lullaby then became one of three lullabies I sang to my baby every night. To this day - he is now six - we will either sing or play it to him until he falls asleep.
The lyrics and the way the song sounds like waves are so beautiful - it truly is a masterpiece which I hope every child gets to hear while being lovingly rocked to sleep.
Thank you Eric Whitacre 💙
Time and again I listen to this beautiful song. I wish that one day we humans will all feel the love and care for Mother Earth's oceans like this mother seal does for her baby.
My middle school did this song as a piece for state. Recently the choir teacher who taught me in middle school passed at a very young age on Christmas Eve. Listening to this song brings me to tears.
I've recently fallen out of love with my choir past. Over the summer out of school I've lost touch with it, the passion, the raw emotional energy and power that a truly magnificent performance can release. I regret spending so many days cooped up inside, watching silly RUclips videos when I could have been immersing myself in this glory, improving my own voice.
This song is simply beautiful. Eric Whitacre's music takes my breath away every time I hear it.
This is arguably my favorite song. Am anyone else in love with it or am I the only one?
We are not alone.
Deck Jacobson i have to play it in band and for the first time playing a piece i think i got chills
nope your not the only one! :D we're singing this for choir and I love it!
Abby Eliz. Krohn
You lucky person. For some reason, my chorus teacher thinks that Whitacre isn't worth all the work.
Deck Jacobson Takes a very good and dedicated choir to sing his music. Can't approach it half-heartedly!
I think Whitacre shines most when he writes these gorgeous, simple melodies. This is one of my favorites, along with his Five Hebrew Love Songs and This Marriage.
It's 2015, I joined band for the heck of it on my senior year, our high school band played this song. I was in the percussion group so I didn't play, but got to sit and listen. We went to a Ski resort at Colorado for our band trip and they played that song while over their at a concert. I always enjoyed this song, and this song always takes me back to those days. 2015 was like the calm before the storm, it was right before all the political craziness really started taking off. Those were last days before I had to worry about bills, paying for a vehicle, etc. This song always takes me back to Colorado, I always remember the scenario of me sitting outside of the shopping center during the cold night with the snow and yellow Christmas style lights. Those were the days, you always take your younger life moments for granted until you get older. I don't know if anybody is going to read this, but I figure I would at least let it out lol.
This is seriously bone-chilling.
This song never fails to give me the chills
Doing this in university choir right now, Eric whitacre pieces are always a joy to sing
My friend and I saw this at a live concert in the Eastman Theatre, where many songs from many artists were played in many different forms. They played this about two hours in so we were kind of out of it. I was half listening until near the end of the song, where a suspended chord woke me from my daze. I stared at the singers and thought to myself, _Hold on a second. HOLD ON A SECOND. THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!_ My friend an I immediately exchanged a glance (at around the 3:37 point) that kind of translated to "You're hearing this too, right?" As it turned out, he experienced the same trance that I did.
That was really one of the only songs I remember from that concert.
We're singing this in my choir now, it's just so beautiful, the first time I heard it, I CRIED it was so beautiful.My science teacher is pregnant, and we sing it to her at the beginning of every class.
I love this song. When I was a Sophomore in high school my class sang it before summer break and I went home over the summer and learned my part(alto) by myself. I am no longer in high school and I still know my part by heart. It's sad that I am no longer in choir, but I do go back and sing with recorded choirs that make me feel again performing.
I sang this song my senior year of Choir... I'm now 22 years old and I haven't sang like this in years. Makes me wanna get my voice back to the way it was back then so I can sing this again... just one more time
What an incredibly beautiful piece. I was moved to close my eyes and just let my soul breathe for these 4 minutes, and I am so grateful for it.
I love how pretty much every choir kid universally knows this song by heart.
Just returned from University of North Florida with my daughter and seven other outstanding vocalist from A.W Dreyfoos High School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, FL. Eric Whitaker was the guest clinician who conducted my precious daughter and her friends as they sang this and other selections of his. I lost my mother on June 4 of this year and while listening to the magnificent high school young adults sing I was blubbering like an , I cannot describe it in human words. Such a beautiful piece. So very, very emotional. I love you mom and Mary... Daddy
Michael. Rough, ain't it...lost my mother two years ago last May and even this afternoon, coming across a lovely card she'd sent me, I just went to pieces. And I think, so often, even though I know she's in a far, far better place than we are now, will this longing ever get any easier. I don't believe so... I've had people tell me, You need to move past your grief, focus on the positive. But I've learned something: this feeling is not the same feeling as the stunning loss of death and the grieving period that follows. This is, rather, the comprehension of how much more you can love and value a person than you'd realised. This is the slow maturation that comes from small but cherished memory after memory randomly coming to you over time. Not the soppy sentiment stemming from an idealised character, either, but the nuanced perspective that comes with age and reflection and the recognition of similar foibles in one's own self. True, lasting and unbreakable love.
Kindest regards.
I sang this in my school choir seven years ago and it recently reentered my consciousness and I've been listening on repeat since. Its such a beautiful song and arrangement.
I would like this song at my funeral ....it is so beautiful ,,,,
Myself and a couple other hundred students from across the U.S. had the privilege of singing this beautiful song at Carnegie Hall in NY in March conducted by Anton Armstrong. It was the most exhilarating experience Ive ever had. We all sounded so beautiful in that theatre. I miss it terribly.
My choir did this two years ago and for my senior year i'm really trying to push my choir teacher to let us do it again second semester. I listen to it every night before bed. Its the most relaxing, beautiful thing ever.
I was searching around for some good choir songs, and came across this. The name was familiar so I wanted to see if the song clicked when I heard it. The moment it started I instantly was hit with a wave of memories and started crying. I sang this song in 9th grade with my choir and it was the most beautiful thing ever. Oh how I yearn to return back to that choir. Those songs will forever change who I am and be in my heart.
Heard this for the first time on classic Fm
My partner and I had been out for dinner and once home I couldn’t leave the car, we just sat in the car park.
I was spellbound ! I just had to find out what this was. I now have listened so many times it gets me every time !
This has to be the most beautiful piece of music I think I have ever heard.
I’m a new dad of twins I immediately played this to my newborns, they are the light and gold of my life I cried the first time I saw them ❤️❤️❤️❤️
When I listen to this song, I always end up in tears. Listening to this song reminds me of so many wonderful memories back in where I used to live.This piece is probably the best music I have heard and thank you so much Whitacre for composing such a wonderful music!
My choir and I are sing this on Thursday and it's such an honor. Every time we sing it, I get lost in how beautiful it is and find myself coming back from being hypnotized
We're learning to do this song in my choir class, and I absolutely love it
Eric Whitacre - Seals Lullaby.
I only heard this on Classic fm today and immediately wanted to hear it again. So I’m enjoying listening to this beautiful piece of music again complete with a drink. I’ve put it on my playlist to continue listening to it.
That was so relaxing 😎 !!! ... and I’m as stress free as anyone else at this present time.
What a beautiful story. from Eric Whitacre. I first heard this requested and played on Classic FM, and have been listening to it ever since. It brings tears to my eyes, it is so emotive. Bless you Mr. Whitacre for composing this, it is simply awesome. :)
sang this in an advanced choir back in middle school, I loved it and it still gives me chills and all the emotions lol
Oh this peice just gives me chills every time the composer is genius has beautiful hair and his love for the alto section just makes me love being an alto ive sang this and boy and a girl and both are exquisite
I sang this song for a chorus and I enjoyed singing this!
chrystal Mahida that's amazing 👍
My coir sang this in my freshman year and now as a senior we are singing it again. I don't think even tough old me will be able to resist crying.
That clinches it. I am learning this for whenever I get married and have a child. This just tugs at the heartstrings. Utterly beautiful.
"Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging sea"
Arguably one of Whitacre's greatest choral works. I always get chills listening to this moving piece. For some reason, I feel a sense of nostalgia and youthfulness listening to this. Childhood memories and experiences seem to fill my head while listening to this. It is amazing what music can do.
Eric Whitacre - I must admit I only heard this song this morning and wanted to listen to it again. It’s such a soothing piece of music.
Gets rid of stress and anxiety which is the type of music we need right now. I’ll listen to this music again. I’ll put it on my playlist. Very enjoyable.
Doing a repertoire project as a music ed student and came across this piece. It is haunting and beautiful.
Some friends of mine sang this song as a trio in a music competition, so I came here to see what it sounds like with a choir. This is one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard.
sang this song last year and I absolutely love this song
Honestly I applaud eric whitacre. As someone who doesn't listen to this type of music much. His work brings me to tears every time. I sing this is my choir along with many other. I respect him and his work.
we just sang this song for my high school choir (Nathen Hale) and I really like it it's peaceful and catchy I fell In love with this song and thanks for having this on RUclips it helped me learn the lyrics and my part.
You're welcome! I'm just glad that the copyright holder hasn't taken it down.....yet.
I get to sing this and Sleep tomorrow with Eric Whitacre, so excited!!!
Wait your sleeping with Eric whitacre
no it's one of his songs XD
I remember this song, as well as Rudyard Kipling’s poem. Truly a work of art, that shows that children’s poems don’t have to be dumbed down to one-syllable words in order to be appreciated. I sincerely hope children’s writers take this lesson to heart.
Eric Whitacre’s rendition of this poem has the heartfelt and soothing melody of a father singing to his son. Which makes sense, because he wrote this piece to sing to his son. He took an already masterful children’s poem and enhanced it with his own love for his child. Beyond beautiful, and a wonderful performance from the choir.
I performed this song with my choir recently. Every time we sang it, it felt more and more beautiful. One of the few songs that has made me cry.
So beautiful and miss the old days singing it in the choir.
Yue Xiao I agree
It's music like this that makes me realize why I sing. Simply gorgeous.
What a beautiful song.
So cool to read some of the comments for this video- so many of us were impacted/changed from getting to sing this song in choir. I will never forget the peace/comfort of getting to sing this, and the kindness/magic of Eric Whitacre as our conductor at the choir camp I attended so many years ago. This song came back into my mind after all these years as I looked at my fur baby, a seal point Persian cat, who I lovingly call my sealy boy.
After listening to it again, tears just streamed down my face as I felt the love & emotion of this piece. As silly as it may sound, I feel like the seal mom w/ my "weary wee flippering" who is, as I write this, sleeping/hiding under our bed as he adjusts to a new house (lol). Can't wait to play this song for him and lie near him by the bed.
So interesting too to find out that this was going to be in a movie based on Kipling's The White Seal, but despite that film not going into production, I am so glad Eric shared this song with us all so we could hold the experience and beauty of it too.
We’re singing this for a junior high third districts, and NEVER did I think I’d sing this song this early, I’ve been wanting to sing an Eric Whitacre song for a year now, and as soon as I saw this I was so happy!!!
this .......brings back soooo memories..
I did this in choir my senior year of high school. It really is a beautiful piece.
The piano completes the song, its playful and creates a suttle feeling, yet the voices of the absolutely outstanding choir just makes me get goosebumps every time I listed to this song. Thankyou so much Eric Whitacre
I sang this song and glow with my advanced choir last year. Eric Whitacre is truly an amazing song writer. His pieces are phenomenal.
You can just imagine a baby seal frolicking and wonderfully playing under and on and over the water!
I just watched a choir sing this last night and had to come and find out more - a lovely song on a beautiful spring evening.
I'm very blessed that my vocal class got to sing this song. The end product was phenomenal
I sang this with my high school choir, and it was one of my most favorite songs we ever did! So glad I remembered the lyrics!
I was introduced to this song by my Choir Director a couple of years ago. I find it incredibly moving both to sing and to listen to, it is has such a precious beauty. I am getting married to my partner (and father of my son) this September and am hoping to incorporate it somewhere in our service. Thank you Eirc
Mi hijo canta en el Coro de la Universidad de Sevilla y en el último concierto que hicieron, cantaron este tema. Estaba todo el mundo con las lágrimas saltadas de la emoción. Simplemente espectacular.
I sung this song in one of my middle school choirs and it's been stuck in my head ever since.
Me and my choir are singing this, such a beautiful song.
Legato means smooth and connected. Not necessarily how loud something should be
Brandon Espino BRANDON I FOUND U
but i did wish we did this song sadly we never did our choir teacher put it down
we sang this song for Wisconsin's all state men's choir and it was just beautiful. when we finished you could hear a pin drop and then the roar of applause. everyone in the Pabst theater at that moment had found a special meaning in this song and it is honestly one of my favorite pieces of music that i have ever preformed. i love this song.
If you ever get a chance to preform this song, do it you will never regret it
My choir teacher went on a trip and sang this song with Eric Whitacre, and brought back this song for us to learn.
We did this in high school 🥺❤️ I’m getting teary now 🤧
I am in love with this piece.
We are performing this in Chamber choir at my school. It's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
I remember singing this my junior year of high school in choir, five years ago. It's such a beautiful piece. I miss singing!
We sang this in Regionals when I was in 11th grade. I absolutely fell in love with it. And the more I hear it, the more it seems to me like it belongs in the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack.
I sang this at Honors Choir last year and I will always love this song. I’m studying to be a band/choir teacher and I definitely will have my students perform this!
I have had the great honour of being part of many vocal groups in which I have sung many of Eric Whitacre’s great pieces of music. He is such a diverse composer and never fails to create a song which I don’t absolutely love singing. This was the first of many Whittacre songs I sang and is up there with my favourite. Some other great Whittacre songs are the songs from his city and the sea collection such as “As is the sea marvellous” and “Little man in a hurry”, Sleep is another great Eric Whittacre song.
Such a beautiful piece❤️ My choir and I am singing this for our Christmas performance. It’s a hard song but very worth it. I can’t stop listening to this on loop. If anyone needs calming music to write to, I strongly encourage to use this one.
Goosebumps.