'Water Night' Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 3
Eric Whitacre is an American composer best known
for his choral music. He has also written a large number of wind band
compositions and some electronic music. In addition, he has composed works for
orchestra and an opera, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings.
His style is quite approachable and features
trademark chords (sevenths and ninths, sometimes heard against a background of
sustained seconds and fourths), unexpected chord progressions, aleatoric
elements, finger snapping by choral singers, and a host of other typically
recognizable characteristics.