Eric Whitacre & Eric Whitacre Singers perform “When David Heard” from the album Water Night with sheet music for the music nerds like me who want to follow a…
Joshua Aaron
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I’m so glad Eric put himself through what he did for all those months to
write this ABSOLutely beautiful piece.
I’m happy to sing this! This choir is amazing! Thank you, Whitacre!
genius
I couldn’t hear it…
I believe it’s the style meant with the strong emotion… what I get a
sense of is every time there’s little parts adding together and building
with dramatic and extremes in range it’s giving the effect of the father
weeping for his son
I know that when they rehearse it, Whitacre never does a full run-through
of the piece. He only rehearses it in small sections at a time, and doesn’t
actually conduct it in its entirety until they’re on stage and performing
it at concert. During that, he has to ’emotionally detach’ himself from the
music and conduct it with an analytical approach. I watched a recording of
him conducting a live performance on Youtube. You could tell he’s doing
everything he can to fight back tears…
Yup! The Union Hall concert was the one I was referring to. I actually saw
your track list 😛
I write any sheet music
Painfully Gorgeous Musical Composition by Eric Whitacre.
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One of the most Beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. Simply overwhelming!
That high A the tenor line has scared the jeebus out of me at measure 69:O
i think “kruhay” song is higher than this.. but it’s great.
i love this song.. i want to sing this song with my choir.. :3
Who would give this a thumbs down?!?!
I didn’t realize that 18 minutes had passed until after I finished
listening through the entire work. I was so pulled into the music that time
became irrelevant. THAT is good music.
Two people are blind, deaf or something… and they think that music is
just about sounds and beats and repetitive loops.
Two people are blind, deaf or something… and they think that music is
just about sounds and beats and repetitive loops.
Simply Beautiful !!!!
Something I love about Whitacre, is his amazing talent for painting
pictures with notes. I love how, in this work, he uses juxtaposition of
rhythms to portray the anguish that David feels for his son’s death, like
shock and confusion. He goes even further by providing some terrace
dynamics from pianissimo to forte, just like a parent would suddenly cry
out for their child-amazing. He does similar things in Leonardo Dreams,
and I am taken aback by it EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
This piece is an absolute beauty, ironically I love the use of silence in
this piece.
Wow, phenomenal!
I like how at 10:40 the mass chord suddenly changes color and tone…
Awesome.
Im waiting the chance to sing this with my choir, it would be so
wonderfull.. :`)
Tiny misprint in the tenor line at 8:48. The written note is a D while the
singer is singing an E. Measure 103.
Hearing this song before, it never really resonated with me. However, this
time around, the full emotion of the song just slapped me in the face.
Something about actually seeing the notes and imagining Eric sitting at his
desk working on this piece for hours just made it that more real. I
suddenly understand why Eric says this is such a hard piece for him to
conduct. The meticulous grace that went into selecting each note is just
stunning.