With a Lilly in Your Hand

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon
Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for improved playback performance. Upgrade now or more info.
3,707
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Apr 23, 2008

With a Lilly in Your Hand
by Eric Whitacre

-- performed by the BHS A Cappella Choir at the Heritage Music Festival in Dallas, Texas.
Conductor: Terry Hicks

  • likes, 0 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (22)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • I was in this choir! And Terry Hicks is one of the best choir teachers EVER! Besides that, I thought we did pretty well on this piece, too. (I'm the one with brown hair on the third right riser.)

  • Very good! I currently go to Southside High school in fort smith and we just happened to beat y'alls high school in all four categories at contest this year! Haha, we took all the plaques home! But good job on this song, we did it this year and it proved to be very tough!

  • I miss him too, Max!! I wish I could see him a lot more!! He'd be surprised at how much we've grown over the years!!

    KnucklesEchidna125, aka Jeremiah

  • I don't like the lack of time to take in the harmonies at the faster tempos.

  • Well I got used to hearing another group perform this piece even faster and frankly, when well done it's quite exhilarating.

  • Always trust your ear and taste first. It's your right as a performer to disobey the score in the pursuit of the most moving performance.

  • Side note:

    Never rely on metronome markings. Half the time, either the editor adds them or the editor forces a composer to insert one and not a lot of thought is put into it. This is why absurd metronome markings tend to be found in a lot of older orchestra works and newer choral and band works. Plus the piece has been revised at least once, so multiple versions exist and composers tend to change their minds afterwards anyways (which may explain his slower tempos).

  • Now that I come back to it, it doesn't sound so rushed anymore; very quick (especially the slow sections), but not rushed.

  • Not so, Whitacre asks for quarter = 168 in the fast parts. It's actually slow. I realize Whitacre himself doesn't conduct it that fast, but that could be a function of the choir's capabilities. It would be interesting to get the man's opinion. For myself, until I hear otherwise, I'll rely on the published score.

  • my high school choir won state with this as one of our songs. It's a pretty tough song! REALLY fun though.

Loading...

Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more