Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir Live

This is Sleep, the Virtual Choir.

A loft bed is an elevated bed similar to a bunk bed, but without the lower beds freeing floor space for other furniture (such as a desk) which might be built into the loft bed.

Let's try it again. Ooh, the TED choir.

Eric Whitacre A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong

Is killed by Alex Morden in a fit of rage while trying to protect Captain Loft.

This is Lux Aurumque sung by the Virtual Choir.

Richard Carter I'm Richard Carter, and this is the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir.

A French choir in Lyon also took a stab at the anthem

And we released to YouTube this, the Virtual Choir Project, 185 singers from 12 different countries.

Rather, he enjoyed sports, took piano lessons, wrote poetry, and sang in the First Baptist Choir.

And because of that, then a lot of singers started saying, All right, what's Virtual Choir 2.0?

In 1974, Tzion joined the Israel Defense Forces as a soloist in the Israel Army Rabbinical choir.

What I'd like to close with then today is the first look at Sleep by Virtual Choir 2.0.

Choir I'm hooked on a feelin' I'm high on believin' That you're in love with me DD So Richard came up from Houston last year to visit us in Detroit here and show the wonderful Sashimi Tabernacle Choir.

Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the national anthem of the Russian Federation performed by the Sretensky Monastery Choir.

And about a week later, a friend of mine came to me and said, Listen, you've got to join choir.

Choir When you hold me in your arms DD This is all computer controlled in an old Volvo.

Improbably, this LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

I decided to write a piece for choir a couple of years later as a gift to this conductor who had changed my life.

He created a gospel choir in the high school at the demand of his students that specializes in negro spirituals, gospel, soul music and world music.

And then just last spring we released Virtual Choir 3, Water Night, another piece that I had written, this time nearly 4,000 singers from 73 different countries.

The sole existing sound recording of a castrato singer documents the voice of Alessandro Moreschi, the last eunuch in the Sistine Chapel choir, who died in 1922.

That's why the child's development in the orchestra and the choir provides him with a noble identity and makes him a role model for his family and community.

And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.

And I went to my first day in choir, and I sat down with the basses and sort of looked over my shoulder to see what they were doing.

Two years ago, on this very stage, we premiered Virtual Choir 2, 2,052 singers from 58 different countries, this time performing a piece that I had written called Sleep.

One of the choir singers worked for a transportation company and offered to fill a few containers with materials that we collected from hospitals, schools and companies in Alsace and send them to Guinea.

Screening of the film Raising Their Voices The Story of the Sinikithemba Choir followed by a panel discussion (organized by the Joint United Nations Porgramme on HIV AIDS (UNAIDS), on the occasion of World AIDS Day)

And I was on a college choir tour up in Northern California, and we had stopped for the day after all day on the bus, and we were relaxing next to this beautiful idyllic lake in the mountains.

And so I decided for Virtual Choir 2.0 that I would choose the same piece that Britlin was singing, Sleep, which is another work that I wrote in the year 2000 poetry by my dear friend Charles Anthony Silvestri.

We also recognize that a lot of the products that we make those videos and so forth you know, they don't reach everybody, and so we've been fostering projects that reach people outside of academia, and outside of the choir that most ecologists preach to.

And I had this idea if I could get 50 people to all do this same thing, sing their parts soprano, alto, tenor and bass wherever they were in the world, post their videos to YouTube, we could cut it all together and create a virtual choir.

It was just extraordinary, and when I came back home I found a poem by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz, and decided to set it to music, a piece for choir called Cloudburst, which is the piece that we'll perform for you in just a moment.

I'm joined by singers from Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Fullerton and Riverside Community College, some of the best amateur choirs in the country, and and in the second half of the piece, the virtual choir will join us, 30 different singers from 30 different countries.