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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.20,0:00:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[pause]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.02,0:00:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[pause]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.15,0:00:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> ERIC: Hey gang! Eric Whitacre here - and\Nhere we go again. For this version of the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.08,0:00:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Virtual Choir we will be singing Sleep; a\Npiece that I wrote in the year 2000. The very
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.10,0:00:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first Virtual Choir was Sleep, but that was\Nreally just a test to see if the concept would
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.06,0:00:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work. We took a big step forward with the\Nsecond version, which was Lux Aurumque, and
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.00,0:00:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now we go back and do Sleep, but this time\Nfor real.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.10,0:00:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright, so now let's get into the music.\NBeginning with the first page, page three:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.05,0:00:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The evening hangs beneath the moon". This\Nis something I want you to think about during
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.00,0:00:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your entire performance - that is diction.\NThe dedication to these gorgeous consonants.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.03,0:00:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The-ee eve-ning hangs be-neath ..." - there's\Nthe potential for little lovely sounds on
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.07,0:01:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every one of those beats. The second concept\Nthat I want you to keep throughout the entire
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.08,0:01:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,piece is this sense of legato. So that instead\Nof going from chord, to chord to chord, we're
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.08,0:01:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,singing in long, fluid, unbroken lines. When\Nwe hit "beneath the moon," make "moon" the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.80,0:01:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most perfect "ooh" you possibly can. Same\Nthing with the "silver thread on darkened
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.08,0:01:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dune", with "closing eyes and resting head"\N... make sure here that you stagger breathe
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.48,0:01:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through this so that you can breathe anywhere\Nelse in that phrase quietly, but don't breathe
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.83,0:01:39.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"resting head" - make that unbroken. "Know\Nthat sleep is coming soon" and again, a perfect
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.29,0:01:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"ooh" vowel.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.21,0:01:45.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then at the bottom of page four; "Upon my\Npillow safe in bed" - let this flow openly,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.35,0:01:51.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freely, and again a legato line, not note\Nto note, and make the entire climax of that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.11,0:01:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,phrase the word "bed". "A thousand pictures\Nfill my head", nice and gentle to rise up
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.82,0:02:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of the texture here. "I cannot sleep my\Nmind's aflight", "aflight" - this is all about
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.08,0:02:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you. Bring that out there. "And yet my limbs\Nseem made of lead". It's essential on the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.74,0:02:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,word "lead" that you cut off exactly where\Nit's written, so basses you'll notice that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.16,0:02:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you cut off on beat three, baritones beat\Nfour, tenors on beat one of the next bar.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.03,0:02:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea is that we're taking the chord "lead"\Nand then sort of making it evaporate one note
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.02,0:02:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a time from the bottom up until we're all\Nsinging very delicately.\NThen "if there are noises" - nice little crescendo.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.00,0:02:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Same thing "in the night". Then "a frightening\Nshadow", give me a nice 'f' on "frightening",
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.01,0:02:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and again on "flickering light" we can paint\Nthe idea of a flickering candle light with
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.00,0:02:58.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that 'f'. Altos when you come in "then I surrender"\Nmaybe a little louder, be a little bit more
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.57,0:03:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,present. Then lots of diction here and just\Nlovely simple sounds. Make sure you have a
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.08,0:03:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,real dedication to where the crescendo and\Nthe decrescendo is written to each of your
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.01,0:03:15.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,individual parts. It'll make the texture sort\Nof come alive if we all do that as written.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.61,0:03:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then page eight; "what dreams may come both\Ndark and deep". "Wha-t drea-ms may co-me"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.01,0:03:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- again there's another one; "dre-ams may\Nco-me both dark and deep". Ladies; "flying
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.06,0:03:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wings and soaring leap" save, save, save that\Ncrescendo - we just want to build, build the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,energy so that by the time we rich forte we're\Nready for the breathe "as I surrender unto
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.05,0:03:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sleep", and then here just the freest most\Nopen sound you can make "dark and deep ...".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.63,0:03:59.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then when we get to the big climax "as I\Nsurrender unto sleep", especially ladies,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.58,0:04:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of a "ah" just think of a long tall\N"ooon" vowel and soar over the top of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.07,0:04:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not too much vibrato but a good healthy clean,\Nclear sound. We come all the way down through
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.02,0:04:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the top of page 10. Then in sixty-three "sleeeep"\N- a nice crescendo decrescendo breathe in
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.00,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a breathe out. Same thing on the next\None. Then I'd love to hear a good solid crescendo
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from baritones and tenors, and then eventually\Nfrom the altos and the sopranos going into
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.02,0:04:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the downbeat of sixty seven. We come all the\Nway down, and then when we start the meditation
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.03,0:04:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on eleven "sleeeep ... sleeeep" let each one\Ndiminuendo - poco a poco - and by the time
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.10,0:04:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you get to the seventh or eighth reptition\Nof it, you should really be at almost a whisper
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.00,0:04:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- almost gone. You should only have to eight,\Nmaybe nine, maybe ten repetitions of it singing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.01,0:05:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as soft as you possibly can. And when you\Nfinish, hold for just a moment so that we
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.08,0:05:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can co-ordinate everyone's ending together.\NJust hold the still face.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.06,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess that's it! Let's make some music.