Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
The Virtual Choir began in May 2009 as a simple experiment in social media and has since exploded into a global phenomenon, creating a user-generated choir that brings together singers from around the world in their love of music making through the use of technology, whether singing alone in their living rooms, their dorm rooms, their garages or anywhere they can connect to the internet; these videos are synchronised and combined into one single performance to create the Virtual Choir.
Successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign, run in association with DCINY/Soaring Dreams, Virtual Choir 4: Fly to Paradise was released in July 2013, received over 8,400 submissions from 101 countries and launched at the Coronation Festival at Buckingham Palace/BBC 1.
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My high school marching band is doing this song as our main opener song this year, in about November when they release videos of our show (we don’t release videos until after competition season) look up Jackson County High School paradise reimagined 2024
It's nighttime & it's so beautiful that tears are falling down & the night becomes indeed "water night". 😭😍💯
still haven't been able to find myself in the vid, other than in the credits 😅
Hi I’m a soprano and I came here to practice this song 🎵 but now I’m going to cry after reading all the comments it seems like there are a lot of people who miss their choir. Maybe I’ll miss too
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Remembering a time of sorrow, sadness, loneliness, courage, beauty and love.. after 3+ years this still brings me to tears.. thank you for bringing this to the world. Your voices bring out the best of humanity ❤️❤️❤️
A red curtain slowly opens. Rows of little screens, showing people of all ages and colors, fill the stage against a dark background. In the center appears 5 a man. He soon begins conducting and disappears. Then the singing images move slowly to the music. Some of them are zoomed in to show different faces. There is neither an orchestra nor an audience. The singers have never met 10 each other or practiced together. Yet a song called "Lux Aurumque" is performed by a beautiful mix of voices. This is a "virtual choir."
Who is here in 2024
Damn, I wish I could sing.
We are one
Wow! 3 years ago already. It was a beautiful experience being part of this worldwide choir back then, and we can even find our faces and credits among the other 17,570 singers. Hugs and encouragement to all fellow gentle singers.
This is as much a THING in music history as it is music.
shawdy fine
Der digitale Fortschritt durch Corona war doch enorm. Liebe Grüße
Loved being a part of it and seeing my name amongst the throng at 4:51 🎶🎶💕💕
광주전자공고 최지웅 망고사줘라
I love this. Question: What happened to the high soprano (long blonde hair) close-up? A different video version?
I will always wonder why this entire video sound was in mono. Artistic choice?
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if only the wierd beeping in the background could be removed...
Sehr toll, als ich diesen Scheiß auf dem Friedhof gespielt habe, ist mein toter Opa aus dem Grab gesprungen, um den Radau aus zu machen. Danke
Is Eric still producing these? I tried to join but too jammed. The global choir is magnificent.
Seeing this for the first time, 10 years late to the party. Balling my eyes out…. Yet feeling soooo thankful. Thank you for reminding me about my wings, and how sweet it is… humanity is waking up to her highest potential.
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My niece sang in this choir. The song brings me to tears. So other-worldly
I taught General Music at a middle school students begged me to start a choir. I had no idea how to do it. as soon as I did, I discovered I loved it. Thanks to a Jack-A*S Dean, I get terminated after one year. I loved directing that choir. It took me ten years and a Master of Music Education, but I have 4th/5th choir at a much more upscale middle school. I know what is must be like to "remember how to fly" but not be able to.
I'm a choral director in Canada. With covid, I was facing a crisis. How could I keep my students singing through this trying time, and how could I keep involved in the greater choral community? This came along at just the perfect time. I am very proud not only of my contributions, but those of my friends, and those of my students. I always told them that choir has the ability to bring together singers, not only in the community you live in, but globally. Unfortunately, covid broke my program, and the school is focusing on instrumental music now. HOWEVER, the students involved with this and one other virtual choir project we did with the high school will always have this to look back on. Sing on everybody!
Tellement beau et touchant...et plein de souvenirs troublants et tristes...pour toute ma famille!| La cruauté de la vie à certains moments ...
Can you imagine what the praises in heaven are going to sound like with trillions praising the name of Jesus, and thanking God for bringing us home? The cure for sin has come to earth, and it hung on the cross to prove it worrked! We can get well, we can go home, praise the name of jesus
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Revisiting here in 2024. A bright moment in a difficult time.
Looking back, it was truly our small contribution to heal an ailing world. Still teary-eyed knowing I sang as one with strangers who share the same love for music and humanity.
I’m in there somewhere. 😁 I decided to sing my part in the bathroom so it had better reverb and I had to put a blanket up behind me so the shower wouldn’t show. 😂
3 years later and this still gives me goosebumps.... what an absolute priviledge to be a part of this...!
Well done sir... Highly respected.... All the way from Namibia 🇳🇦 🇳🇦🇳🇦
I don't like the way that all of the 17,571 people's voice cams merge into each other.
It's funny how I'm accused with all sorts that I haven't done and apparently did not sing in this photo. Just because you haven't found me amongst all those singers, my name is in the list of singers at the end of the sing. So get you facts straight and stop spreading lies about me
Wonderful. Im hearing this for the first time and am finding the words hard to make out. Would someone post them in comments? Thanks.
I remember very fondly recording my part for this choir with multiple friends of mine. I still come back to this video and get chills down my spine knowing that I was a part of this incredible adventure.
I keep playing this thinking I would get over it, but I always fall in love again.
For me this was such a positive part of 2020. I used it in my schools when we went back in September after the Spring and Summer lockdowns. Sing Gently was such a precious part of that awful time in our lives.
R.I.P Rodney “Thomas” Jones. He introduced me to this Beautiful Piece.
I feel bad for the booklet designer who had to painstakingly credit every single choir member name by name.
This video will never not fascinate me. We shown Eric's Ted Talk in university a few years ago and I keep coming here to rewatch this. Along with the Sleep choir piece. Amazing.
I participated as a alto and it's always so nice to listen back to this beautiful song!
This might sound a bit odd but when I listen to a choir of music on a scale as large as this I cant help but feel that this is what the voice of humanity sounds like if we get past our differences and work together as a species towards something. I dont know if what im saying makes much sense but that is the only way I can describe a project such as this. Extremely moving piece and it gives me a sense of hope for humanity's future.
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