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Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4.5 out of 5 stars, with critic James Manheim writing the collaboration between Whitacre and Voces8 "would be noteworthy on its face" and specifically highlights The Sacred Veil as "a major piece of choral music that will be around for decades" and Whitacre's composition "forges a distinctively dark language that is related to but distinct from his usual ...
In 2011, he conducted the winning entries of the Abbey Road 80th Anniversary Anthem Competition, recording the London Symphony Orchestra and the Eric Whitacre Singers at Abbey Road Studio 1. Whitacre's Soaring Leap initiative is a dynamic one-day workshop where singers, conductors, and composers read, rehearse and perform several of his works. [12]
The Sacred Veil is a composition for a cappella choir, piano and cello by Eric Whitacre, with lyrics by Charles Anthony Silvestri. He composed it in 2018, also including lyrics of Silvestri's wife Julie, who died of cancer and to whom the composition is dedicated.
This use of tonic beneath moving dissonance paints an initial sensation of darkness and irregularity, and is maintained an octave lower in measures 6-15. Whitacre then immediately shifts the established current with a subito forte entrance by the women on a B ♭ minor triad, echoed by the men two beats into the measure. The men and women ...
Pernell Whitaker vs. Buddy McGirt II, billed as The Final Say, was a professional boxing match contested on October 1, 1994, for Whitaker's WBC welterweight title. [ 1 ] Background
The fight lasted the full 12 rounds with Whitaker ultimately earning a close but unanimous decision. The fight started off close but Whitaker took control in the middle rounds as McGirt struggled with his left shoulder injury, basically fighting one-handed as he had his previous fight.
The River Cam is a work for cello and strings by the composer Eric Whitacre composed for the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber’s sixtieth birthday which he premiered on 14 April 2011 at the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre London with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Quincke's Interference Tube is an apparatus that Quincke built in 1866 which demonstrates destructive interference of sound waves. It is also known as the Herschel-Quincke Tube; John Herschel had proposed a similar apparatus, but did not build it. The principles of the apparatus are now applied in mufflers and other noise management devices.