By Marcia Adair
LOS ANGELES — Orchestral musicians had their date with Internet
destiny a few weeks ago with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Now
the spotlight moves to choral singers with Thursday’s release of
the Virtual Choir.
Los Angeles-based choral composer Eric Whitacre created a choir
that allows lone choristers from Lebanon, Kazakhstan and Madagascar
to join 2,049 other singers from 50-plus countries in a performance
of Whitacre’s composition “Sleep.”
The result will be revealed at 6 p.m. Thursday online and at the
Paley Center for Media in New York.
The project, overseen by Whitacre, invited choral singers from
around the world to submit a video of themselves singing either the
soprano, alto, tenor or bass part of Whitacre’s “Sleep.” The audio
was mixed into one track, so all four parts sounded at once as they
would in a live concert.
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