When was lux aurumque composed

It is a a Christmas piece based on a Latin poem of the same name, which translates as "Light, warm and heavy as pure as gold, and the angels sing softly to the new born baby". Lux Aurumque.

Choral Sheet Music. Whitacre's Virtual Choir performance of Lux Aurumque, has received 4. Sing Gently 7. RIFF-it good.

Versions: 1 2. He invites singers to submit a video of themselves singing their own part, and combines them to create an international choir of performers. Whitacre, Eric b. Lux, Light, Calida warm Gravisque and heavy Pura velut aurum as pure gold Et canunt angeli molliter and angels sing softly Canunt molliter sing softly modo to natum. Gorgeous, simple triads melt from one beautiful chord to the next, creating a slowly evolving wash of colors and light.

The videos are then synchronized and combined into one single performance to create the virtual choir. Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque Lyrics. I'm not familiar with this besides A Boy and a Girl, Sleep, and Cloudburst so I won't rate it, but all three are amazing songs and very difficult to perform.

Eric Whitacre is an excellent composer! Based on one of Whitacre's most popular choral works, Lux Aurumque, here is an extraordinarily lush and poignant adaptation transcribed for concert band. He has also written a large number of wind band compositions and some electronic music. Explore Composers.

Whitacre News. Eric Whitacre is one of the most-performed composers of his generation. His choral works and band works have rapidly become accepted in the repertoire due to their strong appeal to audiences and players alike. In addition to composing, Whitacre tours the world as a conductor of his own works. Eric Whitacre on Facebook. Whitacre even writes his own program notes. Here they are for Lux Aurumque :. Lux Aurumque began its life as an a cappella choral work that I wrote in the fall of Lux Aurumque received its premiere at the conference of the Texas Music Educators Association, and is dedicated with deep admiration for my dear friend Gary Green.

This note deserves a little further explanation. First, Gary Green was the director of bands at the University of Miami, and one of the top conductors of bands in the world. It is dedicated to Maestro Gary Green. Digital: SheetMusicDirect.

I was delighted when Eric got in touch to ask if I might arrange some of his choral music for marimba. His music contains many of the things I love in choral music; lush tonal harmonies, strong audience engagement and a firm spiritual connection.

I transcribed Sleep replacing the voices with the warm, earthy tones of the marimbas to make a seriously special marimba chorale. To contrast A Boy and a Girl contains some eighth note passages to convey momentum, whilst Lux Aurumque employs up to twelve mallets across the instruments to keep the original division of parts.

For October I added two vibraphones played without motor to the marimbas to utilize the wider sound pallet of the mallet quartet. Using the choral reworking Alleluia this music chimes and sparkles, a humble meditation on the glory of autumn.