Interest in the newsletter grew rapidly and the demand for more information triggered the transformation into Classical Singer magazine. Since 2013, Whitacre has been releasing on his own independent label, UNQUIET, established as a joint venture with his managers at Music Productions. When you are a couple, it gets so hard to say what we want. Virtual Choir 4, "Fly to Paradise", contains 8,409 videos from 5,905 people from 101 different countries. He was invited back to TED2020 mainstage to present Virtual Choir 6: Sing Gently to mark this global community project in the time of crisis. [4], In February 2009, Plitmann was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for her 2009 performance of Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan. It reaped a harvest of five-star reviews and topped the US and UK classical album charts within a week of its release. [33][better source needed], On May 4, 2018, Whitacre announced that Virtual Choir 5 would be his 2015 piece Deep Field. “I went on this rant that opera used to be written in the vernacular of the people—they were tunes. Always flowers my wife! His early output for choir and symphonic wind ensemble was well received by critics in the United States and eagerly taken up by performers; meanwhile, news of his music’s luminous beauty and harmonic richness travelled overseas. On 12/05/2017 WHITACRE, ERIC filed a Family - Marriage Dissolution/Divorce lawsuit against PLITMANN, HILA. NJ Student Britlin Losee sent her a cappella video of Whitacre’s 2000 work, “Sleep,” into the YouTube ether, and the link was quickly brought to its composer’s attention. Editors’ Notes In 2005, poet Charles Anthony (Tony) Silvestri lost his wife, Julie, to ovarian cancer. He found her sense of humor made him laugh his head off “80 percent of the time,” and he was attracted to her kindness and generosity and an inner beauty inside and out that, along with an ethereally earthy soprano, helped Plitmann to earn a Grammy award in 2009.

Eric Whitacre is one of the most popular composers living today, as his over 45,000 Facebook fans will attest. “It’s the most incredible thing.”. It may not have been a love story fit for an opera when Eric Whitacre and Hila Plitmann met in a Juilliard placement exam in 1995. USA, Harold Haugh Light Opera Vocal Competition, Ann Arbor The online project, inspired by a young singer’s video recording of the soprano part of one of his pieces, was created by 185 singers from a dozen different countries. Altijd bloemen mijn vrouw! We have learned to not fall into places where we get at each other.

The range of Eric Whitacre’s international reach increased in 2010 with the launch of his ground-breaking Virtual Choir. [26] Singers record and upload their videos from locations all over the world. Ms. Inez Sez, song cycle by David Del Tredici, CRI label; Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter, song cycle by David Del Tredici (featuring the composer at the piano) Music & Arts label All Rights reserved. “Lovely Rose” was followed by what remains one of Whitacre’s most well known compositions, “Cloudburst.” As he describes it, “I sort of woke up one day and I was a composer.”. The Sacred Veil - a project led by Eric Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri - was created following the passing of Charles wife, Julia in 2005. Whitacre’s works, as seen on recordings for Hyperion, Naxos, and Decca (which Whitacre signed to exclusively last year) show a healthy amount of inspiration taken from Renaissance polyphonies blended with modern harmonies and vocal effects typical of Leonard Bernstein or John Corigliano (unsurprisingly, Whitacre studied with Corigliano at Juilliard). At 21, he wrote his setting of "Go, Lovely Rose" for his college choir and presented the composition as a gift to David Weiller.

Whitacre went on to earn his master's degree in Composition at the Juilliard School, where he studied with John Corigliano and David Diamond. [5][6][7] Whitacre's second album, Water Night, was released on Decca in April 2012 and featured performances from his professional choir the Eric Whitacre Singers, the London Symphony Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber and Hila Plitmann. Tom Leslie contributed to his interest in writing for wind ensembles. His open-minded, compassionate approach acknowledges music’s extraordinary capacity to unite people from all backgrounds. Talking to Whitacre and Plitmann about how they manage parenthood is like speaking to any pair of working parents. Among the guiding principles of the Virtual Choir, Eric and his managers and producers at Music Productions (Claire Long & Meg Davies) have sought to make the Virtual Choir as accessible as possible. Cases involving marriage dissolutions or divorces.

[2] While at Juilliard he met his future wife, soprano Hila Plitmann, and two of his closest friends, composers Steven Bryant and Jonathan Newman. Composed in 2018, The Sacred Veil is a new 12-movement work from Whitacre and poet/lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri. In addition to Classical Singer, she also contributes frequently to Time Out New York, Gramophone, Playbill, and more. Connecting to ensembles and composers has been the foundation of Plitmann’s career, and beyond Whitacre there are certain composers to whom she constantly turns. Earlier Virtual Choir projects include ‘Glow’ written for the Winter Dreams holiday show at Disneyland© Adventure Park, California, and the Virtual Youth Choir, in association with UNICEF, which premiered at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. “There was no way I was going to join,” Whitacre says. [17] His work has been described as "weightless"[18] and as the "sort of music Vaughan Williams might have composed in the Cambridge branch of Dunkin' Donuts". The words and music for “Sing Gently” were written especially for the Virtual Choir in April 2020 during the global pandemic. Over a period of ten years the project grew in numbers and in 2020 Virtual Choir 6: “Sing Gently” brought together 17,572 singers from 129 countries. Yet the progressions are not traditionally tonal -- they proceed rather in chains of thirds, in modal echoes, and subtly nontraditional parallel motions. Schwartz’s encouragement led to her pupil attending Juilliard for both undergraduate and graduate studies. Nearly every chord he writes for This marriage is a completely consonant major or minor sonority, only tinged for brief moments by voices that sing a quick neighbor note or escape. English (US) Español; Français (France) 中文(简体) [43] In 2015, Whitacre wrote Deep Field for orchestra, chorus, and mobile app; the piece was inspired by the Hubble Deep Field images and audience members play electronica from their smartphone apps. He has received composition awards from the Barlow International Composition Competition, the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the American Composers Forum. “I discovered I really love, love to sing.” At the same age as her future husband was when he was filming McDonald’s commercials, Plitmann was cast as Flora in the Israeli Opera’s The Turn of the Screw, another experience that cemented her position in the operatic world as opposed to musical theatre. Plitmann pauses and adds, “He was [an] incredibly charming and immensely talented ’80s cowboy.”. His second album for Decca, Water Night, secured the No.1 position in the iTunes and Billboard classical charts on the day of its release.

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