Looks Like Eric Was Fabulous

All of the speakers in the Monumental session delivered tight, powerful talks, but most poignant for me was the juxtaposition of Eric Whitacre’s virtual choir with Wadah of Al Jazeera’s discussion. Whitacre demonstrated the amazing power of crowdsourcing and how the social media can bring people of disparate backgrounds together, in this case to make beautiful virtual music. He shared with us a video of himself conducting Lux Aurumque that he’d posted on YouTube, asking others on the site to submit their own videos. Of all of the videos he shared with us, that first one was for me by far the most moving in its touching organic beauty.