Music

This guide will help you find resources for your music research and assignments.

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ECU Choir Performances

Various performances by ECU's choirs are available on their YouTube channel. Their latest performances are below:

After her arrest for taking part in the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests, artist Denise Ho's music was banned in China. In this talk, she shares how she fought back by organizing concerts and building her own record label. Art and creativity, she says, can never be controlled. Stay tuned after her talk for a special performance of her music, sung in Cantonese.

Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre has inspired millions by bringing together "virtual choirs," singers from many countries spliced together on video. Now, for the first time ever, he creates the experience in real time, as 32 singers from around the world Skype in to join an onstage choir (assembled from three local colleges) for an epic performance of Whitacre's "Cloudburst," based on a poem by Octavio Paz.

Transcript available here.