SATB divisi a cappella-Featured in Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 4 bringing together over 8 000 submissions from 101 countries from around the world “Fly to Paradise” is taken from the award-winning musical Paradise Lost by Eric Whitacre which boasts 10 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards nominations the 2008 Los Angeles Garland Award and the LA Weekly Award. This work is for SATB divisi a cappella. Please note the work requires an electronica track for performance. Access to that online audio is included in the purchase price.

Here are three whimsical settings of Ogden Nash poems that are perfect for a lighter portion of your program or as an encore. They are easily-learned and fun to perform! Includes: 1) The Panther; 2) The Cow; 3) The Firefly.

For SATB choir with Piano accompaniment.Commissioned by Distinguished Concept Artists International New York as part of the DCINY Premiere Project.By Eric Whitacre with text from E.E.Cummings.

This a cappella collection of pieces for mixed choir by Eric Whitacre is the first available printed music compilation of its kind for the composer. The book includes pieces of varying difficulty wide-rangingin theme from the iconic Sleep and Water Night to the quietly angelic Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) and the recent Nox Aurumque (Night and Gold). A Boy and a Girl and ThisMarriage are both wonderfully tender pieces and the inclusion of the early Go Lovely Rose marks the beginning of a journey through Whitacre's choral output from this first success to the present day.Eric Whitacre is a Los Angeles-based composer and conductor who is held in the highest esteem everywhere inspiring and motivating a new generation of singers and musicians. His music creates a visceral impassioned response in audiences and performers. In 2008 the all-Whitacre choral CD 'Cloudburst' released by the British ensemble Polyphony on Hyperion Records became and unexpected international best-seller topping theclassical charts and earning a Grammy nomination. The BBC raves that 'what hits you straight between the eyes is the honesty optimism and sheer belief that passes any pretension. This is music that can actually make yousmile'.

A setting for SATB Choir A Cappella (divisi: 5 Sopranos 4 Altos 3 Tenors 3 Basses). The text Octavio Paz has been translated from the original Spanish by Muriel Rukeyser.

Full of colorful contrasts this final movement from The City and the Sea dances with fun and humor! The rhythmic wordplay and deconstructed syllables of the E.E. Cummings poem hurtle ever faster to the final sudden ?stop? for an extraordinary concert finale. Duration: ca. 3:45.

for SATB Chorus and Piano-This piece was commissioned by Bruce Mayhall for the Delaware All-State Choir and is a wonderful setting of a beautiful Octavio Paz poem in its original Spanish. The piece is scored for SATB choir with Piano accompaniment.

II Samuel 18:33-When David heard that Absalom was slain he went up into his chamber over the gate and wept my son my son O Absalom my son would God I had died for thee!A powerful setting of the devastating text from Samuel II Chapter 18 Verse 33 for SATB Choir A Cappella.

With the characteristic clusters broken into arpeggios for this movement this playful work features delightful wordplay and simple fun! Duration: ca. 1:40.