Eric Whitacre - The Stolen Child | Live from Symphony Hall | The King's Singers | NYCGB

[@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!! :)

[@taxevader4880]

This song is absolutely enigmatic and ethereal, hardest drop in composing history fr

[@flisscook8934]

Ahhhh, I remember it well! I was teaching on that course ... Well done NYC of 2009! Great times... An amazing composition unlike a lot of Eric's other work....Passionate or what?! 💕

[@Rikuwashere442]

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

[@averageshortking7949]

To the Disney die-hards that dislike this song: Were you under the impression that real fantasy was happy and fun all the time? Lol this is Grimm stuff, raw and mysterious, where Light and Dark don't always mean Good and Evil.

[@Cortanicob]

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!

[@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

[@caribind3]

Like a choir of angels....

[@PhillipLWilcher]

Thank you dear Helen for forwarding this on. Loved it! It's a beautifully shaped setting, haunting and true! Wonderful!

[@gomounties08]

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

[@Wowzer33]

I love this song I want it!

[@christoperfect]

Musical rapture. Beautiful.

[@angeluomo]

Superb!

[@jadess18]

made me cry

[@megansspark]

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

[@kirbydan465]

Awesome! Sounds almost like the soundtrack to a scary movie. Fascinating.

[@galvatron77]

haunting phantoms, ghosts, and the like. That's the feeling I get...

[@leahmaegen987]

I might be the only one geeky enough to think this, but: Johnathan Norrel & Mr Strange. Beautiful piece :)

[@aetherograph]

oh you are absolutely not the only one. 💗

[@NateMelo614]

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

[@KloppingJ]

THANK YOU BASED GOD

[@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?

[@miggtorr]

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

[@aarenmarchi]

@Thunder00Silence Whitacre Wrote the piece, used the poem.

[@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 :)

[@daisyjoy58]

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

[@Sohrleas]

@squirrelbuddi The Faeries have always been dark and mysterious. In nearly all folklore, they are creatures you want to avoid. Unfortunately, Disney happened.

[@Cortanicob]

@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!

[@Cortanicob]

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

[@trumpettomhurst]

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

[@BlueMewSings3]

Yikes. Another masterpiece.

[@marc007bass]

where was this filmed??

[@SuDokuMaster]

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

[@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.

[@JessieMcConkey-v8d]

Of course he didnt write the poem.

[@mkretzsch]

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

[@gomounties08]

either that or they use tuning forks

[@qwertydeluxe]

So creepy for all the right reasons!

[@dingodancer]

Sorry , but I think this is horrendous.

[@averageshortking7949]

Were you under the impression that real fantasy was happy and fun all the time? Lol this is Grimm stuff, raw and mysterious, where Light and Dark don't always mean Good and Evil.

[@Sohrleas]

I dislike what he did to the melody of this...it might be haunting, but it's certainly not singable, and I feel like I wasted 10 minutes of my life. Heather Alexander, in my opinion, did a much better cover.