Name: Godzilla Eats Las Vegas by ericwhitacre
Duration: 12 min 30 s
Description: Yep. I wrote this as a student at Juilliard.

This song is so awesome! I want to play it so bad!

How did you do that just now?!  I MUSSSSSSSSSST KNOWWWWWWWW!!!!!

I love this part! Start spreadin' the news; I'm leavin' today! Godzilla's gonna kill us all! RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!!!

Lol, sounds like Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1 - B Flat Minor

Im playing french horn for this piece right now. Its a fun part :)

Yep. I wrote this as a student at Juilliard.

Godzilla Eats Las Vegas

𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 [𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑎: 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑘𝑦 - 𝑘𝑛𝑜. 𝑝𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑜]

"Whitacre is that rare thing, a modern composer who is both popular and original"
- The Daily Telegraph, London

Eric has inspired millions as composer, conductor, innovator, broadcaster and charismatic public speaker. His compositions rank among the most popular and frequently performed of the early 21st century, their reach broadened since 2010 by the extraordinary success of his online Virtual Choir project. Light & Gold, his first album as composer and conductor, won the 2012 Grammy® Award for Best Choral Recording and instantly topped the US and UK classical album charts.

Born in Nevada, he discovered a passion for choral music while studying at UNLV and he began composing soon after. He went on to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York under John Corigliano. Many of his choral compositions, Cloudburst, Lux Aurumque and Sleep among them, have entered the standard choral repertoire and his orchestral music has been performed by some of the world’s most distinguished orchestras both sides of the Atlantic. Eric is currently Composer-in-Residence at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK.

A distinguished speaker, Eric has been invited to address the UN Leaders Programme, give the closing plenary at Davos World Economic Forum and to speak for UNICEF and Google among others. He has appeared twice on the main stage at the global TED conference in Long Beach CA, earning standing ovations on both occasions. Recent Virtual Choir projects include ‘Glow’ written for the Winter Dreams holiday show at Disneyland© Adventure California and the Virtual Youth Choir, in association with UNICEF, which premiered at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Broadcast live to 119 countries worldwide, Eric made his iTunes Festival debut with his professional choir in 2014, inviting multi award-winning composer and conductor Hans Zimmer to join him on stage. The performance was consequently released as a live album. Eric returned to the Minnesota Orchestra for a second residency in 2015 culminating in three performances at Orchestra Hall.


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