(MUSIC: "Lux Arumque"/Virtual Choir 1.0)
In last year's video, one hundred eighty-five singers from twelve countries sang Eric Whitacre’s "Lux Arumque."
STEVE EMBER: The video had almost two million views on YouTube when Eric Whitacre started on Virtual Choir 2.0. People from around the world began recording themselves on video. There were instructions like making sure their face was well-lit and dressing only in black.
ERIC WHITACRE: "There's this incredible leap of faith, on the part of the singer, where you’re just hoping, sort of, beyond hope, that somehow this works, right? That you’ll do your little bit for this and then months later find out, oh, OK, that I helped make this happen."
(MUSIC)
BARBARA KLEIN: Virtual Choir 2.0 features images of singers in more than two thousand videos from fifty-eight countries. Britlin Losee, the young woman whose video started it all, was more than pleased with the result uploaded in April.
BRITLIN LOSEE: "Amazing! I still can’t even explain it. What I just learned from the entire experience is that when you do something really pure out of your heart, you know, not wanting anything in return, you know, miraculous things can happen."
STEVE EMBER: Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0 singing "Sleep" is on YouTube. You can find a link at voaspecialenglish.com. You can also download transcripts and MP3s of our programs and try the English teaching activities in The Classroom.
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