Whitacre at WDCH
26th June 2009
On August 7 Eric Whitacre will conduct a performance of his choral music with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. The two-hour plus concert, which will take place on the main stage at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, will feature the following programme:
Tordion (Processional, arr. and conducted by Mike Brewer)
Lux Aurumque
Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine
Selections from the Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor (conducted by Mike Brewer)
Water Night
Five Hebrew Love Songs (with string quartet)
A Boy and a Girl
The Stolen Child
INTERVAL
Pueblo Sunrise (processional, arr. and conducted by Mike Brewer)
Sleep My Child
What If (with electronica)
The Schütz Magnificat (conducted by Mike Brewer)
Nox Aurumque
Animal Crackers I
Animal Crackers II
Cloudburst
Sleep
Nox Aurumque, Sleep My Child and Animal Crackers Vol. II will all be West Coast premieres.
There will also be an hour long pre-concert Q&A with Eric Whitacre and celebrated poet Charles Anthony Silvestri (Sleep, Leonardo, Lux, Nox).
Tickets can be purchased at either Ticketmaster or the Disney Hall Box Office.
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