Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) - Eric Whitacre

[@olmen375]

True heaven is here on Earth. It's when you sing music like this with friends you love. It's when singers and audience come together to share the beauty of the Universe. That is heaven.

[@TheBerlynn97]

Every time I listen to Whitacre's music I get chills 😌

[@happifulness]

The human voice is so beautiful. God really knew what he was doing. :) On an added note, I have never been so thankful for my ability to hear.

[@ILestatdeLioncourtI]

Brought tears into my eyes...and warmth within my body and soul... Very touching... Peace....

[@Cloudstrife112233]

I sang this piece last semester and this semester we're singing Go Lovely Rose. Eric Whitacre is possibly the greatest choral writer of our time. My choir was invited to sing at Moaning Caverns in California and we're bringing back Lux for it.

[@Jeskers18]

I like to watch the other video to this because it shows the faces of all the people that sang. You can even catch a smile or to from them. It makes me happy to see that they enjoyed making this come together.

[@paintedblack09]

A very beautiful animation for a very beautiful arrangement. Something one would see in heaven, I would dare to suspect. Eric, you are the man when it comes to music. :)

[@rtpchoruslead]

Who is responsible for the impeccable digital animation on this? Wow. Beautifully imagined and executed.

[@SugarbabyLA]

So, so magnificent. Words can not even describe. I will never get tired of this. Faved and liked.

[@rachaelstevens1287]

This has to be the most perfect thing I have ever listened to. My ears are in Heaven right now.

[@Ineoh]

This piece stands for light and for love, for life. for everything positive in their pure form!

[@Lacheddar1990]

amen

[@00WatermelonMan00]

Wow, This is simply amazing! It makes me feel like crying my heart, cry out all the painful memories, burden, all the bad stuff.. I'm only a 15 y-o boy, I didn't know a musical piece would touch my heart in such a way.

[@SpookyLukeOG]

Simply mesmerizing reminds me of the tree of life and the beauty we have forgotten in this world

[@oldgreg8648]

A true master at work. This is why as an music educator, I do what I do. To feel this moment of absolute peace.

[@paintedblack09]

This piece has actually helped me out a lot through the time when my mother died. It was like reassurance that there was a place better than where we are now, and that she would definitely be there. Mr. Eric Whitacre, you are the man. R.I.P. Madre.

[@kyleknt2]

i swear ima start crying while we sing this. its absolutely beautiful.

[@Mazzy_Star81]

This must be what the angels in Heaven sound like!! I had been watching a video of the Antioch Chamber Ensemble singing "Sleep" and fell in love, then I discovered this masterpiece.......Eric Whitacre you are a genius and I am in love with your music!!

[@SonicEther]

If this kind of music doesn't exist in heaven, then I don't want to live there.

[@Lagnar]

The perfect video - to go with the perfect song - to be transmitting into - the Universe and beyond.

[@javakogan]

The most beautiful sounds in the world. Thank you so much to all involved.

[@The10secondslater]

I fall in love with this song every single time i listen to it.

[@TheUndeadharlequin]

This seriously took me to heaven... Course I was blazed out of my mind, but still I enjoyed the trip.

[@DemiRose2009]

Music is truly a language universal in its scope! Incredible!

[@CharmsJr94]

I hate being one of those guys complaining about dislikes but i cannot think of any reason this doesn't lift up your soul and take your breath away

[@ContrapuntalRomance]

Its too beautiful. My heart is overwhelmed.

[@f250sailorpdt]

HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!

[@blackdogsirius92]

Learning this and as I'm listening to this, I'm getting chills! Eric Whitacre has got to be one of my favorite composers. :) Learned two of his pieces last year and learning an another this year! Now all I have to do is just meet him. :)

[@wilsontyrell]

I loved do this song with my high schoo varsity choir my jr. year last year along whith his song Cloudburst and this year Lux Aeterna and now we're learning his song With a Lily in Your Hand. I love that Mrs. Menger gives us pieces by Mr. Whitacre, I think it's the reason I sing, because his songs don't only speak to my heart as I sing they speaks to my vocal cords and I "Tyrell, tell EVERYONE this tail so others that don't understand can see the wonders of this world that can't be seen.

[@SimplyDavid42]

Your music does NOT need any image put with to be listened to. Your compositions are wonderful, and largely enough to make the emotion fade in.

[@cassandrasandros489]

Sends shivers down my spine, every time

[@moviemadness2009]

Eric Whitacre is one influence as to why I joined choir. Last year they sang Seal Lullaby and Sleep. Today, I received Lux Arumque, and I should be getting a Boy and a Girl soon. Today my teacher was explaining, "Eric Whitacre is a famous composer known for-" Me: "Being awesome." Teacher: "Using chord clusters." Also I feel it's necessary that there is a paper in the room with several pictures of Whitacre, titled "Inspiration for the Choir Ladies". It's been there since last year. :P

[@MichaelaMarie2012]

OHMYGOODNESS SO AWESOME!! TOO AMAZING FOR WORDS...AND CAPS!!

[@DakotaBrianneB]

My choir is singing this right now. I absolutely love it..

[@voltron42o]

This song and video reminded me how small of a part I have in such an infinite universe of dreams, life, and possibilities, and yet through it one also sees the significance of the individual self in forming this vastness we all share.

[@kitkatgirl113]

OMG we are preforming this song in our marching band and I just found out is was a grammy winner!!!!! My band is amazing.

[@frogirl204]

i was never really interested in classical music until i heard this. this is one of those make you cry "oh my gosh thats is so beautiful " tears kind of song

[@ericvanooijen7905]

As close as a Soul can become to virtual reality, i just now got a taste of it.

[@soniasingsasong]

this is one of the most beautiful songs in the world :)

[@JamesKrudop]

This...this...this is beautiful.

[@malikabuz]

I bet this is what heaven feels like. So beautiful and peaceful -3

[@Bloomingsage]

reminds me of all the reasons of why im on the religious path that i am...for the beauty in the world that most people miss...even in just simple daylight.

[@dennyvibes]

Congratulations on the Grammy win! So deserved!!!

[@CDevene]

This is the closest to God and His perfection in its purest form that I have ever heard or seen~~~

[@jonathan4178]

This is the first song I ever heard from Eric. (Sung with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus) I from then on, fell in love with Eric. I dont like to describe things as heavnly, or anything religous like, but if heaven had backround music, This is what it would sound like; Along with all his other pieces.

[@ethanscoggin012]

This is a beautiful piece that my highschool band director recommended and now im playing this with the band for our winter concert....We're playing it in its orchestral version too!

[@BlueMewSings3]

Stunning stunning stunning. One of the best of the best. Never gets old. So beautiful and moving. Oh! where is the rest of it? Have to find the complete version. Sigh.

[@dfgomez88]

Typical KZbin compliment of how awesome this is!

[@elizabethswan3615]

Only musical piece to bring me to tears.

[@FoSalgueiro_Music]

This is such a beautiful song, and I just love the way Rhythm X pulled it off this year. How it starts off with the choral/pit, then dies down a bit, then just grows and grows and wow, i seriously wish i could be there to hear it.

[@AnAfinityForKarma]

2 minutes and 9 seconds of pure bliss

[@marissaj5866]

Can not wait to learn the rest of this for District, SUPER EXCITED. It is so beautiful!

[@soprano746]

I heard this song last April & i absolutely love it! The video is awesome too!

[@kaia2202]

Amazing song. Cant wait to see Eric Whitacre in Talinn in may.

[@iheartneji13]

This is too freaking awesome for words.

[@Jaws1375]

However, my last few posts have digressed from the main point: this is truly beautiful music. This is real music, especially compared to what is classified as "music" in the pop genre which has so few true musical qualities to it. This is an awesome piece!

[@multimediahelp1]

Eric, thank your editor and visuel artist for creating a really cool video.

[@JBarron2005]

How can anyone dislike this? They must be deaf and even then the visuals are stunning ;)!

[@kubkacka]

I would be really happy, if Mr. Whitacre could write something like this wonderful piece also for a women´s choir. We would love to sing anything like that!

[@ninoboy213]

I had goose bumps all over

[@031doolittle]

choir is just fantastic, i prefer to listen to it with this vid. or the first edition with all the singing faces ;) Thank you very much !

[@gabby33384]

We're singing this in choir! It's very difficult, but really a beautiful piece!

[@rachaelstevens1287]

It really is! The music is so elegant!

[@itsemmybroski4010]

This music is the best out of any music in the world...

[@Tompey2009]

How lovely!

[@cartmanandkylefan]

Pure perfection.

[@karatekidluvr3]

another wonderful piece. I don't know how you do it, but I love it with a burning passion!

[@omartheomar]

This is so amazing!Beautiful! My music theory class watched this today, and I was so close to tearing. It is so beautiful!

[@vicisosmaximus4917]

Amazing! I cried when I first heard this...

[@shineeportal]

I'd like to thank Rhythm X for introducing me to this beautiful music.

[@CeciliaWrites]

now 8! :O how could someone not like this?!

[@deva15101]

Beautiful.

[@jaredschroeder5353]

Eric Whitacre should create a Virtual Concert Band!

[@michaeladenning2706]

Jared Schroeder oh my goodness you have said what i have deamed of !!!

[@sragland314]

Maybe a different composer? Don’t get me wrong, Eric Whitacre is absolutely amazing, but his thing is choir.

[@lschizzle]

In a perfect world, there would be a room in which this video could be seen from all directions and be the only thing in the entire room :)

[@bubblesof557]

So... my friend showed me this. Its pretty amazing.

[@Mariea5000]

WOW... I want to be part of the next One!!!!!

[@Erenyara]

nothing but bonderful. thank you for uploading this~

[@MontanaRaptorInst]

Heaven is here and you are its presence!

[@Jaws1375]

@SonicEther Music is a small glimpse into God's glory, as He gave us music to praise Him. As beautiful as this is (and it is stunningly beautiful), it can't even come close to the beauty of everything in heaven, especially music, so this is definitely a glimse of heaven, if only the slightest glimpse we could ever see here on this earth.

[@DarkLightJSCTV]

THIS IS MAGIC

[@pkayb17]

incredibly awesome....so anxious to see MORE!

[@mradaChris]

Very beautiful!

[@superdavidpu12]

that's the most amazing choral song ever!!

[@bkenstler]

Wow. Last time I saw you Eric, we were having our compositions performed at a UNLV composition recital, that was back in the early 90s. Yours was cool, but mine was better, haha. You've done some remarkable things brother, very proud of you, didn't think you had this in you. God bless, he did indeed.

[@truthnfreedomseeker]

Beautiful in every way.

[@alejandroduran2009]

beautiful

[@firenerd123]

This song is in my marching band show this year.

[@vianeysanchez8379]

perfection.

[@Prologue2113]

Dude, what a trip... It's like I've attained great spiritual oneness with the universe. Twice. I'll live this hell for that, definitely.

[@MJ-98]

Wow. Just wow.

[@ctno3]

why when u guys hear this kind of music do u start thinking of death and heaven when i here this i just loose myself in it in that exact moment im just happy not dead or part of heaven just happy and its those moment that make evrything else woth enduring eric whitacairs music just dos sumthing magical 2 evry1 i love it

[@motinlesshorse03]

i felt complete and disconnected from this earth. i always have, but this time it was warm. it was different. that end. its our lives. they aren't complete yet, not even for those who have died. dieing is only the beginning of new life.

[@joetjoebie60]

Thank you for this beauty! Such a great and lovely idea, a pleasant surprise to find it now. Sometimes the visuals remind me a bit of Fantasia, Walt Disney's animation movie of the 1940-ies. Very well balanced.

[@rocan7]

did this at Bates Choir amazingness love this song

[@AdamHH11]

It was so epic and amazing that their screens and speakers broke when they listened to it.

[@basstheangelo]

Grammy Winner 2012 - Best Choral Performance

[@DLS95]

My school choir here in Ireland do this, we only use the Tenors, Barritone and Bass lines though, it sounds really well!

[@andrewknight4999]

Perfect (fraction). Genius.

[@akeenobumatsu]

thats the evolution of life right there!!!!

[@Mediaright]

Ooh, trippy! Seriously though, more classical works need a visual component like this. The motif for the album is so beautiful that it opens this new world of media to play in for Eric's stuff. I wonder if the next albums will continue this theme or go with something else. It'd be nice to see some sort of carry-over, whether it be the colors, or the setting, or something.

[@edwardandbella4evur]

Singing for chorus this year. My favorite part is the dissonance at :43. So beautiful.