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4 Sep 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 60: Late Night with Eric Whitacre

Prom 60
Prom 60: Late Night with Eric Whitacre
22:30 Wed 4 Sep 2024 Royal Albert Hall
Eric Whitacre leads the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers and the 12 Ensemble in the world premiere of his new ´óÏó´«Ã½ co-commission Eternity in an Hour, which takes its title from William Blake’s great poem Auguries of Innocence
Eric Whitacre leads the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers and the 12 Ensemble in the world premiere of his new ´óÏó´«Ã½ co-commission Eternity in an Hour, which takes its title from William Blake’s great poem Auguries of Innocence

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      • Eternity in an Hour(60 mins)´óÏó´«Ã½ co-commission: world premiere

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About This Event

William Blake’s great poem pitting childlike wonder and naivety against adult maturity and experience, Auguries of Innocence, contains the resonant line ‘eternity in an hour’. Eric Whitacre, whose apparently weightless music is often said to stop time, takes that line as the title for his Proms commission, receiving its world premiere at this Late Night Prom. Expect shimmering beauty and heavenly harmonies as Whitacre himself conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers and an ensemble of strings and percussion.

There will be no interval

Broadcast live on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

Eric Whitacre © Marc Royce