I’m not really into a lot of choral music, despite what vocal aficionados say about it being the purest musical form. But Eric Whitacre is an exception. His third album, Water Night, has just come out ...

I remember years ago, while living in my little rent-controlled apartment in Santa Monica, listening to the lilting Duruflé Requiem, calmly dreaming away, awash in the lovely choral music. A next door ...

Another classical makeover comes in the latest CD from the young choral composer Eric Whitacre. It's called Cloudburst. Our reviewer Tom Schnabel says the music is optimistically American and should ...

Grammy Award-Winning Composer Eric Whitacre to Conduct “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” at Carnegie Hall for the First Time in 25th DCINY Collaboration Returning to Carnegie Hall this weekend in ...

This didn’t propel him up the yellow brick road to Hollywood, but it did net him $10,000 in royalties, with which he bought an ESQ-1 synthesizer and a Drumulator drum machine. At the time, Whitacre ...