search for solace. The Los Angeles Times described the work as "memorably [celebrating] the precarious beauty of life, offering the welcome consolation of art and a momentary stay against our collective fate." The work was premiered at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, in February 2019, and recordings released in late August 2020. Awards and honors Whitacre has won awards from the Barlow international composition competition, American Choral Directors Association, American Composers Forum and in 2001 became the recipient of The Raymond W. Brock Commission given by the American Choral Directors Association. His work of music theater Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings earned him a Richard Rodgers Award and received 10 nominations at the 2007 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. The album Cloudburst and Other Choral Works received a Grammy nomination in 2007 for Best Choral Performance. Later, his album "Light& Gold" won a Grammy for Best Choral Performance in 2012. Works Wind ensemble October Sleep (choral transcription) Lux Aurumque (transcription of the choral work, transposed a semitone lower from C-sharp minor to C minor) Cloudburst (choral transcription) Libertas Imperio (From Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings) Ghost Train Equus Noisy Wheels of Joy The Seal Lullaby (choral transcription) Godzilla Eats Las Vegas! Choral A Boy and a Girl (poem by Octavio Paz) Alleluia (adapted from his October) Animal Crackers Volume 1 Animal Crackers Volume 2 Child of Wonder Cloudburst (poem by Octavio Paz) Deep Field Enjoy the Silence (arrangement of Martin Gore / Depeche Mode song of the same name) Five Hebrew Love Songs Fly to Paradise (Virtual Choir 4) Glow (Commissioned by Disneyland for World of Color Winter Dreams; lyrics by Edward Esch) Goodnight Moon (arrangement of the children's book, initially for soprano, subsequently SSA and SATB) Her Sacred Spirit Soars (poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri) Higher, Faster, Stronger (written for the BBC Proms in 2012) Hurt (arrangement of Trent Reznor / Nine Inch Nails song of the same name) i carry your heart (poem by E. E. Cummings) Little Birds Little Tree Lux Aurumque (poem by Edward Esch; translated into Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri) (also set for male chorus) Lux Nova (text by Edward Esch; translated into Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri) Nox Aurumque (poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri) Oculi Omnium Psalm 137: By the Waters of Babylon (written originally for The Choir of Sidney Sussex, Cambridge and Dr. David Skinner, not yet published) Sainte-Chapelle (commissioned