For me, setting When David heard had nothing to do with its religious connotations, but rather its very human drama. It was written for a dear friend who lost his son, and was intended to give him some small measure of peace and meaning.
While Whitacre chose to set just eight words from that Cummings poem, for Lux aurumque he decided to have another poem translated into another language altogether before he set it. And unusually, it was not from a dead language into the vernacular, but the reverse. A short poem of his was translated into Latin by a close friend of the composer, Charles Anthony Silvestri. It just felt right to translate the text. Her sacred spirit soars reads as a pastiche Elizabethan madrigal text, a hymn to Cecilia and Fair Oriana that Whitacre sets for double choir with characteristic fluency as steeped in stepwise movement as the Cummings setting i will wade out is intervallically more angular.
Piano and percussion including wind chimes and thunder sheets are joined by handbells, as well as clapping, finger-clicking and thigh-tapping by the singers to create, most effectively, a simulated rainstorm.
The mood throughout is reverent, meditative and centered … the performer must take the spiritual journey with total respect for the power of the water and profundity of the rebirth. Magical new sounds, singability and a special atmosphere, simply and resourcefully achieved—considerable achievements from a composer twenty-two at the time, whose exposure to classical music and its notation was non-existent just a few years previously.
Da nahm ich die Gelegenheit wahr. Whitacres musikalische Vorbilder sind mannigfaltig und stammen bei weitem nicht nur aus der klassischen Musik. Whitacres drei E. Die Struktur und gewisse Worte aus dem Frost-Gedicht wie z. Solche Fragen des Urheberrechtsschutzes und gemeinfreier Werke konnten bei anderen von Whitacre vertonten Dichtern nicht auftreten: This Marriage, eine einfache, bewegende, homophon und parallel fortschreitende Vertonung eines Textes des persischen Sufimystikers Rumi aus dem Cloudburst ist nicht nur der ausgedehnteste und experimentellste Chorsatz, sondern auch der einzige, der nicht a cappella ist.
Don't show me this message again. Whitacre was only 22 when he wrote it. This was my first encounter with Polyphony, possibly the best small 25 or so professional chorus in the world.
Polyphony is from Britain, where choral singing is a national fetish. American composer Eric Whitacre in his mids, is—with the estimable Morten Lauridsen—a part of a growing bounty of choral exploration and development frequently now being recorded by the British-based Layton and his remarkable ensemble, Polyphony.
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