Students from Columbus, Woodland, Cassens and Worden elementary schools joined World and Whitacre choirs and The Acafellaz for a standing-room-only concert.

Here's a surprising statistic: According to a survey by Chorus America, one in six Americans, or 54 million people, sing in choral groups, whether that's community, school and children's choirs, ...

The Grammy Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir will present The Sacred Veil, A Tribute to Houston's Medical Community and a Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Center for the Performing Arts in ...

"The Sacred Veil" is a collaboration between composer Eric Whitacre and lyric poet Charles Anthony Silvestri that will make its local debut with newly formed chamber choir Sonus. Classical KC's ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – As if getting to perform at Severance or Blossom Music Center weren’t attractive enough, the Cleveland Orchestra just made the prospect of being an adult or youth chorister even more ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Heralded as one of the 21st Century's greatest composers, Whitacre's works have ...

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 ...

Eric Whitacre originally joined the choir because a friend of his said you could meet pretty women there. Instead he was smitten by choral music-Mozart's Requiem in particular--- and now his new cd ...

Eric Whitacre grew up in Reno, Nev., where he studied piano and yearned to become a rock star. But at 18 he sang Mozart’s “Requiem” and suddenly was bewitched by choral music. Today he is one of the ...

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 ...