Back in 2006, choral composer Eric Whitacre’s remarkable album Cloudburst stunned me with its beauty and polyphony. I was so taken by the music and by Whitacre’s unusual musical trajectory that I ...
Out of the silence, a single word unspools. Lux. Latin for “light” and the ancient word for “bright”. Three voices in harmony: alto, tenor, bass. Up, up they soar, a phosphorescence etched in sound, ...
Eric Whitacre has won the Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, also known as the Richard Rodgers Award.