Water Night (Whitacre) | Atlanta Master Chorale

Atlanta Master Chorale performed Eric Whitacre's "Water Night" at our Season Premiere: It's Elemental concert on October 12, 2014 at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
Conductor: Dr. Eric Nelson
Publication Credit:
Water Night | Eric Whitacre | Text: Octavio Paz | Translation: Muriel Rukeyser | © 1996 Walton Music Corp. | Text © 1959 by Octavio Paz and Muriel Rukeyser
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[@graemegibson5120]

2:28 is - BY FAR - the best balancing of that iconic chord of any performance or recording of this song I've heard. I imagine that's exactly how Whitacre wants it to sound - a cluster chord so tightly tuned and balanced like that shimmers in a way nothing else in music can capture

[@Hector95100]

Damn, the balance in the choir is phenomenal. the basses O.O love em.

[@MistaAcorn]

This is true ASMR material.

[@Livsfitz]

This performance is absolutely breath taking. Learning this song in high school was such an amazing experience.

[@alihijazi4451]

Ok, now can I have my breath back, please?

[@annacoribioanna]

OCTAVIO PAZ!! they are reciting an Octavio Paz poem 😭😭 I love him and this goes with him, his intelligence was sent from above, fell from the universe and these sounds are his echoes.... ANGEL voices

[@sdrfoxgaming86]

My choir is doing this song for the first concert of the year. Let's go BWHS Meistersingers!

[@CaralRichard]

My Lord ❤

[@swalea6507]

AMaziN

[@keisaboru1155]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOW

[@Joggelschorsch]

What an amazing room....great choir accoustics

[@mr.i6181]

THIS THE BEST VERSION OF WATER NIGHT😍😍😍 THE FORTE AND LEGATO ARE AMAZING!!!

[@Lindseyloga]

This is beautiful. I have no words.

[@UkeOne]

Great blend and balance...I love Whitacre's music, and your group delivers it beautifully. Bravo!

[@potatobagel4801]

*Sigh* So... Relaxing...

[@LuisMarianoAnyangay]

Those basses :0

[@jonathonedwardmiller]

Goosebumps. I definitely would love to learn this piece. Whitacre and Runestad are some of my favorite composers for modern choral music.

[@a4monek]

Beautiful!

[@julierichards6192]

stunning

[@jck1794]

2:33 mmmm

[@SingInTune]

Yaaaasss! Great werk!!

[@zbigniewcwiakalski7253]

I'm angry... Because I sent that music to all my best friends and nobody appreciated it ... :) I just don't get it. How someone can't see (hear) the beauty of that music. I wish I had friends with similar sensibilities as me... :(

[@oboe2846]

You're not alone. We are here with you even though you do not know us.

[@lukraniom8731]

Let me be your friend

[@karolme3359]

You deff need new friends

[@grethaagatha1296]

Exactly what I feel too 😭 when listening to such beauty we can't help but share... But most of our friends just like shallow pop musics

[@mylesmackbee4120]

This sounds so good when played by a band. We’re playing it for our marching band show

[@ryanhay1845]

Do you know where you got the music for the band arrangement?

[@rcuomo]

3:30 - 3:36

[@meu326]

最大14？声部に分かれますよね すごくウォーター感がでていて音楽って感じで。 もっと早くこの演奏に出会いたかったと思いました

[@aghorn1806]

I can listen to Beethoven for hours and no two chords sound the same. I think there's an emperor's new clothes at work here.

[@SiulZetinebO]

Someone know what kind of music is this? I mean to the musical form or the genre or the music style. This use an interesting harmony that I'm looking for.

[@nickalmand]

Eric Whitacre's wikipedia page refers to his style as "pandiatonic" clusters "usually arranged in successively increasing or decreasing density. Whitacre achieves this growth and decay by splitting voices divisi-in one case up to 18 parts. These sonorities can often be read as seventh or ninth chords, with or without added seconds and fourths. Whitacre makes frequent use of quartal, quintal, and secundal harmonies, and is also known for his use of unconventional chord progressions." Don't know if that helps, but it's interesting to know!

[@SiulZetinebO]

Nick Almand That's exactly what I was looking for! Pandiatonicism! Thank you very much Nick! 😁

[@meu326]

最大14？声部に分かれますよね すごくウォーター感がでていて音楽って感じで。 もっと早くこの演奏に出会いたかったと思いました