Confession time: I'm not a massive fan of Whitacre as a composer for choral music (please don't virtually egg me). But this piece. This piece is a true work of art.
OH my gosh this song is possibly one of the most gorgeous pieces of music ever written! my high school choir sang this for a festival in california last year when i was a sophomore and we took first place gold and are going to Carnegie Hall this year because of it! will always and forever be one of my all time favorites in choral music <3333
im in the Scituate high School AP choir and we are doing this piece for spring for the arts, an event were all the art students in the town show off their best works. and all of the bands and choirs sing and play. i absolutly love to sing this song. when i close my eyes and listen, i can picture what is going on. it is shier beauty.
@scootkamp There isn't such thing as "AP" Choir. The College Board does not provide an AP Choir exam, so throwing an AP in front of the course won't actually make a difference in the way universities regard it on a transcript.
I am a member of the Bingham High School Madrigal choir and we decided to sing this piece. It was one of the most difficult pieces I have ever had to learn but it was outstanding once everything was down! I love this song and several people don't understand how hard it is to perform with all of the dissinences in it but I think everyone who listens to it will understand the beauty of it!
This makes me cry. I can see two people loving, young and playful. Slowly growing up together, walking along the beach. They grow old together and pass away. The two small tombstones sit next to each other on a mist covered long-forgotten hill. They spend an eternity together and at heart, they are still the young boy and girl they were when they first met.
I love this X 1730173027493!!! My friend (who sings in chambers choir with me, and we're doing this piece) has perfect pitch, and he says this recording is absolutely flawless! Amazing job BYU singers!
2:24 no matter how many times i hear it i still get chills. Nothing is better than singing this song with a full choir. You get lost in the music and its not even like singing, its just reveling in the beauty you're creating. This song is why i love Eric Whitacre
my favorite part is definitely 1:15 to 1:28 both to sing with my choir and to listen to. this choir did a beautiful job. technique, dynamics, movement, emotion, everything is just perfect.
i love this song. we were gonna do this for festival but we chose La Rose Complete and Dirait-on by morten lauridsen. and if we did my choir teacher wouldve been able to get eric whitacre himself :/
I have to say, my favorite chord was at 1:23, doesn't sound like much more than a simple cluster up there in the girls part but it gets me every time, it thinks it's partly to do with where it is in the song, right after that gorgeous soprano part.
Tonight at my choir concert I witnessed our a capella chamber choir perform this piece. Needless to say I was in awe the entire duration of the song. In fact, our director has chosen a few other "Eric Whitacre" songs for chamber choir to sing this year, and every time I hear those lovely chords I think, "Why am I not on that stage right now singing with them at this very moment?", and feel the need to cry afterwards.
Oh, the glory of Add2 and Add4 chords!! Beautifully used. And then when he uses a dominant chord is it resolved correctly? Oh, course not. Cause Eric Whitacre is a beast! I especially love the minor section. =]
I was listening to this song on the bus and I shivered and everyone was like, "Are you okay?!" I was like, "Oh, I'm more than okay, I'm wonderful—I'm listening to Eric Whitacre."
just the phrase "never kissing..." it's such a beautiful line with all the tension released and the melodies converging, sad but peaceful. though its sung earlier in the song at the end of each verse, here it feels finally complete, like their lives and love. amazing piece and deeply touching poem
@wowdanalise Exchanging foam is when the white bubbly excess of clouds/ waves go from one wave or cloud to another. This is comperable to the way young lovers seem to give a little bit of their soul to each other when kissing.
To me, it's the little things that help make this song remarkable. Particularly at :34, the first girl, and the 4 chord clash at 1:25, the fminor2 clash at 2:25, and the saying nothing over lapping. It's all so special.
Uhhh dude you know that it doesnt say savoring there limes it says savoring there LIVES. my chorus teacher is teaching us all of this song and sorry to say you got a SMIDGE of the lyrics wrong.Good try though!!
@popcorn88502 It is 'limes'. I don't know why the version you have says 'lives'. Eric never wrote it that way. Interesting tho. I will have to look into it more.
@popcorn88502 Lol I now this post is kinda old, but I must say this. It is limes because in the spanish culture, savoring limes was symbolic( forgive me, I do not remember how :P) It makes sense because Octavio Paz wrote this poem originally in spanish. Just wanted to say that :)
@chadortom I absolutely agree. I have never heard a more beautiful chord than that one. When I performed this song with a chorus, the director made us sing and hold just that chord for him during practice because he was just in awe of its beauty.
@chadortom Pretty much a straight D7 right?...I thought there might be a 9th in it but it is the melody note E that drops to the root. Very nice voice leading overall
@IZZYIZZO2001 Interestingly, the chord they are singing at 2:47 has all tones in the frequency proportion 3:4:5:6:7:8:9 (A-d-f#-a-[c']-d'-e'). The "7" does not exist on the piano, it's slightly lower than a minor seventh. But with voices, you can sing it exactly just. Hence this truly amazing chord.
@IZZYIZZO2001 But a piano can only play twelve fixed notes per octave. A voice can sing everything in between. The c' should be sung a little lower than the note on the piano, because then it is more in harmony with the other voices (because of the above mentioned 3:4:5:6:7:8:9 proportion). See wikipedia: Harmonic seventh. I'm not really sure that the BYU singers actually do sing this harmonic seventh, but I think so.
@Pebbe496 now you are starting to get into different tunings (pythagorean, well, equal, etc.) it's still a dominant ninth chord regardless of the intonation. If you tune the piano differently than equal tempered, then it can play more than just the 12 standard notes we think of. Check out Charles Ives' 3 Quarter Tone Pieces. Plus, the piano can have multiple tunings per octave, although that probably sounds terrible.
If you really listen to the lyrics in this song it's actually very sad as beautiful as it may sound. It's really a poem about the stages of life that this boy and girl go through. In the end it says how they are now "stretched out underground" meaning dead instead of "stretched out on the beach" or "grass" as they were before. The harmonies really reflect the story because as it goes along they become more eery towards the death part.
@ehspad Since the composer himself worked with the choir when they recorded the song, I find it hard to believe he would have had them rush the rests.
@jwhPicc91 my experience with Whitacre is that when he writes rests he tends to be very literal with the amount of time he means for them to get. If he worked with them, then I assume he urged them to do what was written...so I agree with you!
we're doing this song at my school and i almost cried when i found out. i love whitacre and this is my absolute favorite piece by him. i just wish we could sound half as good as the byu choir. :)
I wish the choir I'm in at my school could do this piece just like this.... but they aren't serious enough. =( It's such a beautiful piece and chills over come me every time. Eric Whitacre is a genius.
This song gives me such a rich picture. I always think of the timeless love a couple shared in life, and how their love continues even though they've both died. Then I see this song being sung right as the sun is setting in a vineyard, with the two gravestones side by side under a tree... A boy and a girl.
Made our whole choir cry haha we are doing this song at the concert tomorrow evening. Gotta love the way the text flows with the dissonances and dynamics, like waves.
Confession time: I'm not a massive fan of Whitacre as a composer for choral music (please don't virtually egg me). But this piece. This piece is a true work of art.
SilverIlly 2 days ago
Eric Whitacre knows how to make extremely beautiful music.
quigleypiss70 1 week ago
Sang this in high school choir. Director was crying as we sang it. Every time I hear it, a major wave of beautiful nostalgia hits me.
Azmorph 1 week ago 3
Just want to learn and listen, but I can't. Maybe I'm not ready to sing this one. Way to emotional to concentrate..
SingInTune 3 weeks ago
OH my gosh this song is possibly one of the most gorgeous pieces of music ever written! my high school choir sang this for a festival in california last year when i was a sophomore and we took first place gold and are going to Carnegie Hall this year because of it! will always and forever be one of my all time favorites in choral music <3333
stardazzle1995 3 weeks ago
My choir teacher was in the University of Utah version. I could seriously point her out too! This song is eerie and beautiful.
raintalonwindclan 3 weeks ago
im in the Scituate high School AP choir and we are doing this piece for spring for the arts, an event were all the art students in the town show off their best works. and all of the bands and choirs sing and play. i absolutly love to sing this song. when i close my eyes and listen, i can picture what is going on. it is shier beauty.
scootkamp 1 month ago
@scootkamp There isn't such thing as "AP" Choir. The College Board does not provide an AP Choir exam, so throwing an AP in front of the course won't actually make a difference in the way universities regard it on a transcript.
AlexHoss1 1 month ago
2:58-3:11 My heart melts
demenche 1 month ago
amazing, one of my favorites from him.
Iksvelabrog1 1 month ago
I favorited it 12 seconds in.
FreutLupe 1 month ago
were singing this in our select ensemble at my high school. The first time I heard this, I fell in love with it! It is so beautiful!
MatthewLaurenceOwitz 1 month ago
I am a member of the Bingham High School Madrigal choir and we decided to sing this piece. It was one of the most difficult pieces I have ever had to learn but it was outstanding once everything was down! I love this song and several people don't understand how hard it is to perform with all of the dissinences in it but I think everyone who listens to it will understand the beauty of it!
jalthor1 2 months ago
This is so beautiful.
callen937 2 months ago
4 people don't understand that this is the closest to Heaven they will ever get without dying...
His music speaks to a place in your soul where only God dwells.
mbouchan86 2 months ago 6
I'm in love with Eric even more!3
leannclay121 2 months ago
good music is so easy to sing well....
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@seagorich Can't tell if stupid, or just trolling...
lemake72 1 month ago
This makes me cry. I can see two people loving, young and playful. Slowly growing up together, walking along the beach. They grow old together and pass away. The two small tombstones sit next to each other on a mist covered long-forgotten hill. They spend an eternity together and at heart, they are still the young boy and girl they were when they first met.
Egbertwallbee 3 months ago 62
@Egbertwallbee your so romantic
xarif777 2 months ago
1:14 I absolutely love the chording for "Stretched out on the beach."
LoserUser72 3 months ago
I love this X 1730173027493!!! My friend (who sings in chambers choir with me, and we're doing this piece) has perfect pitch, and he says this recording is absolutely flawless! Amazing job BYU singers!
twilightgirl2929 4 months ago
Wow. This choir is amazing
NoahDanielson 4 months ago
Such a beautiful song! I agree with gibsonguitar89
Snapcrakle37 4 months ago in playlist Eric Whitacre
our choir KILLED it at state with this song..such an awesome piece.
patricb911 4 months ago
We're singing this in chorus. But there's no way we'll be able to sound this beautiful. =)
NikiCandy12 4 months ago
This song is so wow. The chords sound so yummy.. :)
vampknight45 5 months ago
wow what a song. It wonderful I mean really. I am in choir too and one of my songs is done but that same guy who wrote this one hahahah.
aiyameikari 5 months ago
can anyone honestly listen to this without melting into a puddle?
pianosa1993 5 months ago
Im in love with this
H2daAnnah 5 months ago
we're singing this in chorale at my school
AbbyAmbition14 5 months ago
love love love this song probably one of my favorite song i ever did in my high school choir though the BYU did it perfectly n.n
sanemadness03 6 months ago
two of my favortie people ever...Eric Whitacre and a bunch of mormons!!! haha absolutely breath-taking!
Bezzie00 6 months ago
Some of harmonization in this piece reminds me of the following:
youtube.com/watch?v=0pv_v_4fhbc
ZBRUNETTI 7 months ago
This makes me hungry for burritos, and babies...
ssssteve360 8 months ago
beautiful...
extradumbubblegum 8 months ago
I've heard many groups perform Whitacre, but BYU reigns supreme.
sininenfithrildi 8 months ago 7
So much better than any group I've heard perform this.
Banaramahama 8 months ago
oh lord, listening to this imaginative piece while listening to Ludovico Einaudi Nuvole Bianche (Original) gives flowers to the ears... bouquets.
unforgettable903 8 months ago
WOWWWW. Music like this is why I wanted to be a choir director.
charismacake04 9 months ago
2:24 no matter how many times i hear it i still get chills. Nothing is better than singing this song with a full choir. You get lost in the music and its not even like singing, its just reveling in the beauty you're creating. This song is why i love Eric Whitacre
hellraizr666 9 months ago 3
0:40 to 0:46 - love it
Juleessy 9 months ago
My favorite chord of his is the tone cluster in 'Water Night.' Beautiful.
MATTYandMUSIC 9 months ago
@MATTYandMUSIC mine is 6:06 on leonardo dreams
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Briansmart1 10 months ago
I figured this was the best song to listen to on repeat on a warm day walking along a trail by the water with myself...
So I listened to this song on repeat on a warm day walking along a trail by the water with myself.
unforgettable903 10 months ago
My favorite part is 0:00-4:36 but everything after that was kimda terrible :-/
bubblytar 10 months ago 93
@bubblytar HAHAHAHA! I clicked to see where that was. Awesome.
zsbrunetti 5 months ago
Best example of text painting 2:56 - 3:12
Tan1723 10 months ago
My favorite part is 1:15 to 1:28
this choir did a beautiful job. the dynamics, movement, emotion is all there. what a divine sound.
musicdari 10 months ago
My favorite part is 1:15 to 1:28
this choir did a beautiful job. the dynamics, movement, emotion is all there. what a divine sound.
musicdari 10 months ago
my favorite part is definitely 1:15 to 1:28 both to sing with my choir and to listen to. this choir did a beautiful job. technique, dynamics, movement, emotion, everything is just perfect.
musicdari 10 months ago
i love this song. we were gonna do this for festival but we chose La Rose Complete and Dirait-on by morten lauridsen. and if we did my choir teacher wouldve been able to get eric whitacre himself :/
jeewalk 10 months ago
I cried.
Phoxus 10 months ago
All of my school's choirs are singing this :D
Anneliselove 10 months ago
i get shivers everytime.
ilive2write 10 months ago
Descant rules<3<3
Miss doing this stuff in high school :')
amandalea91 11 months ago
1:33 is my favorite chord, though I'm not sure why haha.
This choir is perfect, by the way. If Whitacre himself had directed, it could not have been any better.
TEXTUALactivity 11 months ago
2 people are deaf.
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milesofsmiles644 11 months ago
I have to say, my favorite chord was at 1:23, doesn't sound like much more than a simple cluster up there in the girls part but it gets me every time, it thinks it's partly to do with where it is in the song, right after that gorgeous soprano part.
m8cct 11 months ago 2
My choir just started learning this song.
Holy god.
Anneliselove 11 months ago
From 3:13 to 3:19 I got full-body chills.
SoulessBeing 11 months ago 2
Tonight at my choir concert I witnessed our a capella chamber choir perform this piece. Needless to say I was in awe the entire duration of the song. In fact, our director has chosen a few other "Eric Whitacre" songs for chamber choir to sing this year, and every time I hear those lovely chords I think, "Why am I not on that stage right now singing with them at this very moment?", and feel the need to cry afterwards.
PandaPod 11 months ago
um..the last appeal from halo 3 and reach...
TheSamiam1007 11 months ago
There are few things in life more beautiful than an Eric Whitacre chord.
ScaldingHotSoup 1 year ago 3
we are doing this in my musical theatre class
very difficult, but gorgeous!
ilive2write 1 year ago
whenever i type this into the search bar, "a boy and a gril kissing in bed" comes up. it's awkward.
rad song though. i've been falling asleep to it every night for almost a month.
milesofsmiles644 1 year ago
2 people don't know how to savor limes
soccerfn1423 1 year ago 4
well my mom went to university of utah so she would probably disown me for saying that i absolutely love this! i have chills!!!
BlondieSingsTheBlues 1 year ago
@BlondieSingsTheBlues We all know the Cougs are the best! C'mon! :)
yickcy 1 year ago
Can't seem to get rid of these goosebumps!
MandaooPants 1 year ago
Can't seem to get rid of these goosebumps!
MandaooPants 1 year ago
Oh, the glory of Add2 and Add4 chords!! Beautifully used. And then when he uses a dominant chord is it resolved correctly? Oh, course not. Cause Eric Whitacre is a beast! I especially love the minor section. =]
intertwined1 1 year ago
I was listening to this song on the bus and I shivered and everyone was like, "Are you okay?!" I was like, "Oh, I'm more than okay, I'm wonderful—I'm listening to Eric Whitacre."
clauclau33 1 year ago 2
Eric Whitacre....better than John Rutter.
lbtwilighter12 1 year ago
just the phrase "never kissing..." it's such a beautiful line with all the tension released and the melodies converging, sad but peaceful. though its sung earlier in the song at the end of each verse, here it feels finally complete, like their lives and love. amazing piece and deeply touching poem
gibsonguitar89 1 year ago 21
Amazing, amazing harmonies. Amazing.
redsteelchair 1 year ago
I will be singing this song in my school chamber choir and I must ask. What in the hell is exchanging foam? Forgive my ignorance.
wowdanalise 1 year ago
@wowdanalise Exchanging foam is when the white bubbly excess of clouds/ waves go from one wave or cloud to another. This is comperable to the way young lovers seem to give a little bit of their soul to each other when kissing.
FableRoy 1 year ago
@FableRoy I see, which makes it all the more dismal when they die. Pretty song, gloomy lyrics.
wowdanalise 1 year ago
3:45 to the end gives me goose bumps every time... i love this song
1992nebraska 1 year ago
@1rhammond
Hahaha yes!! If I was in a choir that sounded like this, I would need nothing else.
MsStephuhneee12 1 year ago
the 2 dislikes for this are on drugs.. who wouldn't like this! i don't understand! haha
1rhammond 1 year ago
This makes me want to attend BYU.
I am not even Mormon
MsStephuhneee12 1 year ago 5
@MsStephuhneee12 me too!! i'm like ehhh no i'm not mormon but i'm starting not to care if i could be in a choir that sounds like that.
1rhammond 1 year ago 3
This songs echos in my soul!
SingingGeek05 1 year ago
embarrassing ))xx but this sounds like our chorus...
loveyou498 1 year ago
i'm in this chorus this yearrr
loveyou498 1 year ago
Magnificent. Whitacre listens in to the sounds of heaven and brings them down so us mortals can listen in every once in a while.
superheroman04 1 year ago 5
omg this is Milton Choral (:
loveyou498 1 year ago
@loveyou498 This recording is by the BYU Singers.
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amalsee 1 year ago
Yeah... Mormons...
tconsta22 1 year ago
Eric Whitacre has a direct line to glory of the universe. Every song he writes is a journey deep in to my soul. This must be what the angels sing.
afsqkbs 1 year ago
Close your eyes while they are humming... infinite chills.
CheeseMaster165 1 year ago 4
Goodness... Chills are just surging through my body... this is... just ineffably beautiful...
BringMeToLife93 1 year ago
2:01 is an awesome chord.
PatrickScaggs 1 year ago
To me, it's the little things that help make this song remarkable. Particularly at :34, the first girl, and the 4 chord clash at 1:25, the fminor2 clash at 2:25, and the saying nothing over lapping. It's all so special.
Coolbeanz19 1 year ago
My choir just did this. I was so amazing- gives me chills everytime :)
vintagebananna 1 year ago
2:33 is my personal favorite.
fudgecmq 1 year ago
I want to listen to this song while I die. Slowly pass when the last chord silences.
PatrickScaggs 1 year ago 5
@PatrickScaggs Oh wow. That would be a less traumatizing way to die to say the least.
Coolbeanz19 1 year ago
Eric Whitacre+ BYU singers= perfect.
meosk 1 year ago 5
Uhhh dude you know that it doesnt say savoring there limes it says savoring there LIVES. my chorus teacher is teaching us all of this song and sorry to say you got a SMIDGE of the lyrics wrong.Good try though!!
popcorn88502 1 year ago
@popcorn88502 it DOES say limes, look up the original poem :)
CheckTheSky 1 year ago
@popcorn88502 It is 'limes'. I don't know why the version you have says 'lives'. Eric never wrote it that way. Interesting tho. I will have to look into it more.
utahcollins 1 year ago
@popcorn88502 Lol I now this post is kinda old, but I must say this. It is limes because in the spanish culture, savoring limes was symbolic( forgive me, I do not remember how :P) It makes sense because Octavio Paz wrote this poem originally in spanish. Just wanted to say that :)
elphie1415 11 months ago
beautiful but sad song
Scudderbug15 1 year ago
did eric whitacre write the these lyrics too?
Bubbletape0 1 year ago 3
@Bubbletape0 No, the words are a translation of a poem written by Octavio Paz.
guth2391 1 year ago 6
oh, and awesome song!!
2:47 = best chord in existance
chadortom 1 year ago 26
@chadortom I much prefer 3:15 :)
guth2391 1 year ago 35
@guth2391 ooh tht one is good! i guess i didn't notice it as much cuz it was a bit quicker. but yea, that's lush disenece right there, my friend
chadortom 1 year ago
@guth2391 i agree with you
XxSharpieItBlackxX 1 year ago
@guth2391
me too!
it and the chord at 1:33 are straight out of Lux :)
HansLanda7 1 year ago
@guth2391 I love 2:41 :D
Coolbeanz19 1 year ago
@guth2391 The chord @ 2:47 is a D7
jtlessons 1 year ago
@guth2391 1:23 is my favorite. Although, really, the whole thing is simply amazing.
superheroman04 1 year ago
@guth2391 2:24 is great too (that is what the sopranos and altos shift to).
blueskiesjazz 10 months ago
@guth2391 That's when you take the 2nd chord of the relative major and turn it from minor to major... music!
HoldFastTheTruth 9 months ago
@chadortom i'd have to go a different way: 1:24 ... :-)
reginamotamaier 1 year ago
@chadortom I absolutely agree. I have never heard a more beautiful chord than that one. When I performed this song with a chorus, the director made us sing and hold just that chord for him during practice because he was just in awe of its beauty.
BringMeToLife93 1 year ago
@chadortom Pretty much a straight D7 right?...I thought there might be a 9th in it but it is the melody note E that drops to the root. Very nice voice leading overall
jtlessons 1 year ago
@chadortom That chord immediately made me think that this boy and girl were in a barbershop when this happened.
SchoolSkipperStudios 1 year ago
@chadortom
Yes, quite good. But 2:44 from Water night has all the notes in the scale in the chord. :D So amazing.
TheReighnart 1 year ago
@chadortom
it's a dominant 7th chord
lakestv3 11 months ago
@lakestv3 You know, I don't hear dominant 7th chords a lot in Whitacre's pieces.
m8cct 10 months ago
@chadortom I believe that chord at 2:47 is a dominant 9th chord
IZZYIZZO2001 6 months ago
@IZZYIZZO2001 Interestingly, the chord they are singing at 2:47 has all tones in the frequency proportion 3:4:5:6:7:8:9 (A-d-f#-a-[c']-d'-e'). The "7" does not exist on the piano, it's slightly lower than a minor seventh. But with voices, you can sing it exactly just. Hence this truly amazing chord.
Pebbe496 5 months ago
@Pebbe496 I don't fully understand what you mean. The piano has a larger range than voices, so whatever they are singing can be played on a piano.
IZZYIZZO2001 5 months ago
@IZZYIZZO2001 But a piano can only play twelve fixed notes per octave. A voice can sing everything in between. The c' should be sung a little lower than the note on the piano, because then it is more in harmony with the other voices (because of the above mentioned 3:4:5:6:7:8:9 proportion). See wikipedia: Harmonic seventh. I'm not really sure that the BYU singers actually do sing this harmonic seventh, but I think so.
Pebbe496 5 months ago
@Pebbe496 now you are starting to get into different tunings (pythagorean, well, equal, etc.) it's still a dominant ninth chord regardless of the intonation. If you tune the piano differently than equal tempered, then it can play more than just the 12 standard notes we think of. Check out Charles Ives' 3 Quarter Tone Pieces. Plus, the piano can have multiple tunings per octave, although that probably sounds terrible.
IZZYIZZO2001 5 months ago
thanks for the lyrics! they are appriciated!
chadortom 1 year ago
I want to have kids from this man.
♥♥♥♥♥♥
iheartneji13 1 year ago
We sight read this song in choir, my goosebumps got goosebumps!!!
Aeropostale103 1 year ago 4
is there a bad song composed by Eric Whitacre? Just wondering...
songbirdbritt22 1 year ago
@songbirdbritt22 NO
manof1000voices 1 year ago
I nearly die everytime I listen to this song. It's so incredibly beautiful. I get numb and can't movie it's that fabulous. Eric Whitacre is amazing.
CheeseMaster165 1 year ago
What a sad and beautiful song.
seizetheday224 1 year ago
If you really listen to the lyrics in this song it's actually very sad as beautiful as it may sound. It's really a poem about the stages of life that this boy and girl go through. In the end it says how they are now "stretched out underground" meaning dead instead of "stretched out on the beach" or "grass" as they were before. The harmonies really reflect the story because as it goes along they become more eery towards the death part.
bjmazia 1 year ago
I love their tone quality but they rush through the rests.
ehspad 1 year ago
@ehspad Since the composer himself worked with the choir when they recorded the song, I find it hard to believe he would have had them rush the rests.
jwhPicc91 1 year ago
@jwhPicc91 my experience with Whitacre is that when he writes rests he tends to be very literal with the amount of time he means for them to get. If he worked with them, then I assume he urged them to do what was written...so I agree with you!
ChoralBrian 1 year ago
i want to marry eric whitacre.
jadess18 1 year ago 4
@jadess18 Taken.
awkwardbarry 1 year ago
beautiful. im honestly speechless.
boomboom2009 1 year ago 3
@boomboom2009
There are no words to describe this song's beauty.
CheeseMaster165 1 year ago
this gives me chills everytime i listen to it! its so pretty!
clairebear541 1 year ago
he really loves desonance! :) but it works!
alliemusiq1 1 year ago
this is the brigham young university right?? that BYU???
JBeaR2011 1 year ago 4
@JBeaR2011. Yeah
TravisRote 1 year ago
this is very beautiful I love it
animeluvr945 1 year ago 2
**favorites immediately**
SweetRelease6 1 year ago 5
we're doing this song at my school and i almost cried when i found out. i love whitacre and this is my absolute favorite piece by him. i just wish we could sound half as good as the byu choir. :)
risquee6 1 year ago 7
Same here. We listened to this recording in class... and I just went numb from complete awe. =P
CheeseMaster165 1 year ago
I wish the choir I'm in at my school could do this piece just like this.... but they aren't serious enough. =( It's such a beautiful piece and chills over come me every time. Eric Whitacre is a genius.
CheeseMaster165 2 years ago
We're doing it in Chambers at our school. It's AMAZING, isn't it?! I love Whitacre soooo much!
skyebirdsings 1 year ago
Yes! =P
CheeseMaster165 1 year ago
gorgeous.
ash82405 2 years ago
Eric Whitacre is God.
ScreamDemon08 2 years ago 90
so true
nikrz4 2 years ago
@ScreamDemon08
....God blessed Eric Whitacre. God is God.
SAIgirl91 1 year ago 3
GO BYU COUGARS! LDS ROCKS!
abravar2 2 years ago
I completely agree with Meosk. Surreal.
Zhaboka 2 years ago
this song is so pretty i love it haha eric whitacre is so amazing at what he does
jackychansun 2 years ago
This song gives me such a rich picture. I always think of the timeless love a couple shared in life, and how their love continues even though they've both died. Then I see this song being sung right as the sun is setting in a vineyard, with the two gravestones side by side under a tree... A boy and a girl.
Crowdsurfer10 2 years ago 4
always gives me goosebumps. It is truly an amazing work of art and this choir is incredible.
rammstein9291 2 years ago 3
Oh my gosh this song made me cry!
inthemoment875 2 years ago 4
Made our whole choir cry haha we are doing this song at the concert tomorrow evening. Gotta love the way the text flows with the dissonances and dynamics, like waves.
Kellywa76 2 years ago