Eric Whitacre

Eric Whitacre is one of the most well known, performed, and awarded choral composers in the modern day choral scene. Eric was born on January 2, 1970 in Reno, Nevada, dabbling in piano lessons as a child and later, in junior high, joining marching band, and playing synthesizer in a techno-pop band. Believe it or not, Eric dreamt of becoming a rock star. (Bowen) Although he is not among the likes of Metallica or The Beatles, Eric has won a Grammy for Best Choral Performance for his album "Light and

Eric Whitacre, a brilliant composer of choral music, wrote the selection or song I chose titled Sleep. The title basically is announcing that the piece will be about the act or portrayal of sleep told by the narrator which is Eric Whitacre. I believe he wrote this to mimic how one would fall asleep, or the process of sleepiness. The way Whitacre defines things as you go to sleep, makes him seem that he has a personal influence on it. The tone of this work is innocent yet dark, an example is the word

Eric Whitacre is known as a grammy-winning composer and conductor also is one of the most known musicians of our time. Born in Nevada, he started out by joining his school band and also played in a techno-pop group. After he graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he then went on to graduate from Juilliard School of Music as Master of Music in 1997. He then completed a 5 year term as Composer in Residence at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge University, UK. Eric was recently appointed

Charles Alan Sylvestri’s poem “Leonardo dreams of hid flying machine” is a dramatic story of hope and optimism that takes the listener on a great adventure into the great unknown. Leonardo functions as the agonist of the poem who is “tormented” by his need to fly and touch the sky. Finally, after much planning and determination Leonardo takes a great leap of faith with his flying machine and his dreams of flight are consummated! In order to fully encapsulate Leonardo’s conquest of the almighty

Eric Fang, Wind Symphony Concert Report     On Friday, October twenty-second, Simi Valley High School had their fall concert, however, they only had two bands so there was not much to write about. The concert band opened up with, Apparitions, by Brian Balmages, which was a song with a very mysterious intro with the percussion. The song is later developed into a soprano winds melody which was very well balanced with its counter and support. Unfortunately before a very beautiful, yet eerie flute solo

The University of Redlands Wind Ensemble, directed by Eddie R. Smith, put on a show at the Memorial Chapel on Tuesday, November 16th. Walking into the monumental Chapel I was unsure of what to expect. As I walked in I saw the amazing artwork around, the high ceilings, and a wide variety of instruments scattered on different levels of the stage. On the first level there were many small hand held instruments such as flutes and clarinets, on the second there were a wide variety of brass instruments

directed by Steven Soderbergh and released on the 18th of September 2009. Matt Damon stars as the informant as given by the title of the movie joined by other stars including Joel McHale, Scott Bakula and Melanie Lynskey. This film represents Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) as an employee who is a whistle blower regarding the lysine price-fixing scheme. Mark worked for a company called Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). In

There is a Pedigree dog commercial I see on television which catches my eye and my heart. It tells us to not pity a shelter animal. When I decided to become a Veterinary Technician, I anticipated working in a veterinarian office. Approximately one year ago, I began volunteering for the Denver Dumb Friends League at the Buddy Center in Castle Rock. This experience has led me to consider working in a shelter instead of a vet office. A shelter is not necessarily the easiest place to work, and I have

The animals in the book “Animal Farm” hoped to achieve unity, equality. trust/truth, prosperity, better quality of life, freedom and individuality, in terms of the revolution. This was achieved at the beginning of the revolution, which made it a success, but in the end the revolution was a failure. The farm, in many ways, was very prosperous when the revolution began. The animals were given an education, “the reading and writing classes were however a great success,” which made them feel equal

Contagion is defined as the relationship that exists in returns above and afar the economic essentials like exposure to common international risk factors (Cai & Wong, 2010 p. 10). To control the possible effects of frequent exposure to necessities in enhancing the contagion correlation, the research will filter the country’s index returns for familiar exposures. The filtering will define the deviations from the predictable correlation in proceeds based on the economic fundamentals. The research will