Eric Whitacre Conducts the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

Nearly a decade after his wife's death, librettist Charles Anthony Silvestri collaborated with composer Eric Whitacre to create The Sacred Veil, a piece that press materials describe as a "deeply profound and moving choral work that grapples with love, loss, and its ensuing grief." Tonight at 7:30 at Mandel Concert Hall, Whitacre leads the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus as it performs the piece. The concert opens with Reena Esmail's When the Violin, based on a 14th-century text by Persian poet Hafiz that also searches for tenderness at a time of sorrow.