Groot Omroepkoor in the Concertgebouw (2015) (Photo: Hans van der Woerd)

The Living Room: Great Broadcast Choir and Eric Whitacre

Programme

Eric Whitacre All seems beautiful to me
Eric Whitacre Goodnight moon
Laura Mvula Sing to the moon
Lavinia Meijer Tomorrowday
Eric Whitacre Leonardo dreams of his flying machine
Eric Whitacre The seal lullaby
Lavinia Meijer Are you still somewhere?
Johann Sebastian Bach Come sweet death
Eric Whitacre Cloudburst
Philip Glass Metamorphosis II
Eric Whitacre Home from The sacred veil
Eric Whitacre When David heard
Eric Whitacre Sing gently

The Great Broadcasting Choir together on stage with the greatest living composer of vocal music. It sounds like a dream to many fans. In TivoliVredenburg, it is a reality: Eric Whitacre will stand before the choir and perform his own work. He also brings with him harpist Lavinia Meijer. With her harp playing, she turned The Seal Lullaby into a poignant ode to the ocean.

Eric Whitacre has been among the most highly regarded and in-demand vocal composers of our time since the last decade of the 20th century. His 1992 Cloudburst hit like a bomb at the time. And since then his oeuvre has only expanded with works such as Sleep, The Sacred Veil and Lux Aurumque. Time and again, he manages to combine modern sounds and effects with music that lingers long after you have heard it.

Eric Whitacre shares the stage with Lavinia Meijer. The Dutch harpist single-handedly changed the image of the instrument by thinking completely out of the box. Through collaborations with Carel Kraaijenhof, Philip Glass and Ludovico Einaudi, among others, she turned the harp into a hip instrument and even ranked high in the Dutch Album Top 100 for a long time.

Date:

Friday, May 30, 2025

Time:

8:15 pm

Pause:

Yes, including break

Location:

TivoliVredenburg

Utrecht

Large Hall

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