NYCGB/The King's Singers/The Stolen Child by Eric Whitacre

[qwertydeluxe]

So creepy for all the right reasons!

[marc007bass]

where was this filmed??

[jadess18]

made me cry



[mkretzsch]

i do not care for the beginning. i'm sure that sounded great to him on the piano...

[lorytori]

Check out Stephen Conolly hitting those low notes like nobody's business! Excellent performance. Eric Whitacre, how do you come up with this stuff?

[PureHumboldt]

no he didn't write this! This is a poem by W.B Yeats!!! One of my favorite poems. Maybe he wrote the music. 

[Thunder00Silence]

Ohmygod the fey wrote this piece. Not Whitacre, right? It's too good. The terrifying beauty of the fey was exemplified in this piece. I was deeply frightened and enticed......*love*

[pianisimobella]

@Thunder00Silence Whitacre Wrote the piece, used the poem.

[Thunder00Silence]

@pianisimobella -.-' It was a deliberate exaggeration.....

[pianisimobella]

@Thunder00Silence sorry. friend commented on my account. but whatever. stfu? (: whitacre kicks ass.

[ghrem123]

@achinghunger15

Im gald to tell you its on his new CD "light and gold" :)

[MiraSekelsky]

He's composing music for my choir at the moment! He's a visiting fellow at my college this term. So privilaged! Love his music

[mimimozealia]

@MiraSekelsky ohmy, so jealous.

[SuDokuMaster]

There are 3 ridiculously deaf people if they don't like Eric Whitacre...

[daisyjoy58]

@SuDokuMaster actually now 5! wow! darn deaf people!

[Ysabella94]

i was sat backstage during this and all i can rember was just sitting and listening to how captivatingly beautiful the piece was! wish i was in the main choir!! :)

[Wolfgurl442]

Genius, absolute genius. I love this. This is true music, true passion. Thank you, Eric Whitacre. Thank you for making my spirit soar.

[xskyrangerx]

As a member of the UT Dallas chamber singers, we had the privilege to perform this piece with the King singers in February of this year at the Eismann Center in Dallas, Texas. What a great experience that was! An absolutely brilliant piece!

[miggtorr]

@Barbershop666 Yeah, Jayson. Totally agree. Nice job on that Sleep multitrak, btw. :-)

[born2broadway]

if all music was Whitacre's, the world wouldn't need meditation or massages...

[tyetyetye17]

I was so privileged to have sung this with my choir and the King's Singers, and recorded it to CD which comes out next year!!! Greatest experience of my life.

[xXzombieXx]

The bass note (sorry, I don't know names) at 8:02 gives me the shivers, every time I hear it. Absolutely stunning piece.

[jacobgeocortes]

Low D. Very resonant and powerful. I feel extremely jelous to be unable to even be able to witness this honor live, much less to be a part of that choir. Eric Whitacre AND King SIngers. Bravo!

[trumpettomhurst]

@jacobgeocortes The pitch is actually a low F#... But yes, it's very powerful indeed :)

[jacobgeocortes]

@trumpettomhurst On the word "Child" the note is a D2. I assume that was the note xXzombieXx was reffering to.

[trumpettomhurst]

@jacobgeocortes No the note before, the one you can really make out before "child" at @7.58 to @8.01, unless the one he said was "Very resonant and powerful", i can only just hear the low D, unless my hearing is going... But anyway, the point is it's gorgeous. I can only just sing that note in full voice regularly and it's great in this piece :)

[jacobgeocortes]

@trumpettomhurst Yeah yeah. I gotcha. When I was listening to that one part I thought of the F# as not an entirely low note (being a bass baritone myself) and was waiting and heard the low D so I assumed that. Haha whatever the guy meant, Stephen Connolly is a boss/bass!

[jazztrmpter]

I went to the West Coast premeire at the WDCH and it was AMAZING! Beautifully done! =D

[gomounties08]

i was at that concert too...sooo amazing!

[taytsay]

Did anyone else notice that the starting pitch was a person singing it?

[kmdpiano25]

In my university choir, we did the same thing. There is usually at least one person in a good choir that has perfect pitch.

[gomounties08]

either that or they use tuning forks

[retoricalanswers]

@taytsay sometimes there is someone in the choir who uses a tuning fork to find the pitch. it happens often in college choir or professional choir

[GeronaDendao]

I noticed that too. I really like it, to be honest.

[cjth33]

@taytsay It was a member of the choir with perfect pitch (known affectionately as a "pitch bitch" in the lingo).

[gomounties08]

so i heard this song live at the west coast premier this past weekend at the concert given by this group (sans king singers) and conducted by eric whitacre...it was A MA ZA ZING!!! omg...words cant even descirbed...this piece and nox aurumque are my new favorite pieces by him

[NateMelo614]

omg! benchwarmers!! a ma za zing!! love it!

[angeluomo]

Superb!

[caribind3]

Like a choir of angels....

[megansspark]

excellence... great share, Helen!! :)

[PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you dear Helen for forwarding this on.

Loved it! It's a beautifully shaped setting, haunting and true! Wonderful!

[Rayne112192]

Oh How I wish I could meet that Briliant Genius of a Man, and to sing in his choir. This is a piece of pure magic.

[christoperfect]

Musical rapture. Beautiful.

[bentomlin]

It's on the NYCGB Gala Concert CD, available for purchase

[Wowzer33]

I love this song I want it!