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Â鶹Éç Proms 2024: Eric Whitacre conducts the world premiere of Eternity in an Hour with the Â鶹Éç Singers, Christopher Glynn, Nick Lisher and 12 Ensemble.

Presented by Martin Handley, from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Eric Whitacre: Eternity in an Hour, Â鶹Éç co-commission: world premiere

Christopher Glynn, piano
Lesjamusic, electronics
12 Ensemble
Â鶹Éç Singers
Eric Whitacre, conductor/electronics

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 Â鶹Éç Singers and an ensemble of strings, piano and electronics.