In 2016, after a visit from his long-time collaborator and friend, lyricist and poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, composer Eric Whitacre found a poem Silvestri had left for him sitting on his piano. Silvestri had lost his wife and soul mate to cancer 12 years previously, leaving him to bring up their two young children.
A choir hailing from New Jersey in the US will host a concert in a County Kildare church. The Summit Chorale is one of New Jersey s oldest active choral organis.