Sleep+eric+whitacre+pdf [updated]

. Whitacre originally set the music to Robert Frost’s poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

After the work was finished, the Frost estate refused to grant permission to use the text (it was not yet in the public domain). sleep+eric+whitacre+pdf

: Whitacre uses clusters of notes within a scale that "wash" over the listener without strictly following traditional harmonic progressions. The piece was originally set to Robert Frost’s

The piece was originally set to Robert Frost’s "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." However, the Frost estate refused to grant permission for the use of the text until the poem entered the public domain. The choir acts as one single organism –

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“Sleep was born from a beautiful failure. After being denied permission to set Robert Frost’s poem, Charles Anthony Silvestri wrote these exquisite words for the existing music. The choir acts as one single organism – floating through suspensions and resolutions that never quite resolve until the final chord, representing the border between consciousness and dreams.”