It’s amaz­ing what kind of beauty can tran­spire when peo­ple around the globe work together. Case in point, Eric Whitacre’s Vir­tual Choir, fea­tur­ing 2,052 per­for­mances from 58 coun­tries. One jour­nal­ist had this to say about the piece: “For what­ever pre­ci­sion the per­for­mance might lose due to the method–many voices in indi­vid­ual bed­rooms span­ning the globe–it gains expo­nen­tially by con­nect­ing them, eas­ily sur­pass­ing any pre­vi­ously heard live per­for­mance by the sheer impact of link­ing so many per­sons at lat­i­tudes and lon­gi­tudes around the world. Choir: Ulti­mate Edi­tion, any­one?“
Sim­ply put, the effect is stunning.