Eric Whitacre & Polyphony Follow

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• kes 0 points 2013-02-02 05:46

  Any chance that the word "modo" is actually the word "novo" in Latin? That would seem to be truer to the original English. I took a lotta years of Latin back in the day.

• Sam 0 points 2010-07-23 20:35

  My high school choir just went to new york and sang this, among other songs, in carnegie hall...with Eric Whitacre. Best experience of my life.

• Clare 0 points 2010-05-02 14:17

  The original English lyrics by Edward Esch, as quoted on Eric Whitacre's website (www.ericwhitacre.com) are:

  Light,
  warm and heavy as pure gold
  and angels sing softly
  to the new-born babe.

• Will 0 points 2010-03-20 17:14

  For "gravis" I would try 'profound' as a poetic translation.

• Bruce 0 points 2009-12-08 22:48

  This song brings me to weep every time I hear it.

• sarah 0 points 2009-11-12 16:15

  we are playing this piece for our x-mas concert. our teacher was telling us about it and how he felt about this. i thought it was pretty AWESOME!!! it just rocks my socks off!

• Jason 0 points 2009-04-23 21:48

  I wish our music department knew about Eric W. when I was in high school. I would have loved to play/sing anything of his.

• Bryan 0 points 2008-12-25 04:21

  i played this is a year or two ago when i was in high school, and it is still the best piece we have performed. you can never go wrong with chorals or whitacre. :)

• Lyn 0 points 2008-12-22 22:34

  my high school honors ensemble just sang this song at our christmas concert and i'm pretty sure it was the best piece we've done all year!