Eric Whitacre's "hope, faith, life, love" from Three Songs of Faith uses only the first and last four words of a longer e.e. cummings poem, setting each as a repeating meditation.
Composition History
Herbert Howells's Requiem was completed in 1936 but suppressed until 1980, 'for personal reasons,' according to a statement in the score.
Compositional Technique
In Eric Whitacre's "hope, faith, life, love," each word quotes a different choral work from his catalog, with the musical material commenting on the word.
Composition History
Donald Grantham's "We Remember Them" was commissioned by the University of Texas for an annual memorial ceremony honoring victims of the 1966 UT Clock Tower shootings.
Performer Biography
Conspirare, an Austin, Texas-based professional choral ensemble, has received two Grammy nominations for its album "Requiem" and the 2005 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence.
Composer Biography
Herbert Howells's Requiem is an intimate expression of the composer, written after his nine-year-old son Michael died suddenly of polio in 1935.
Performer Biography
In 2008, Conspirare was the only choir from the United States invited to perform at the Eighth World Symposium on Choral Music in Copenhagen.
