2024 All-State Music Festival

All-State Music Festival | Episode

Nov 28, 2024 | 1 hour 30 min

Iowa’s finest high school musicians gather at Hilton Coliseum in Ames to perform with the 2024 All-State band, choir and orchestra.

Transcript

From Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.

It's the 2024 All-State Music Festival.

Tonight we'll see performances by Iowa's finest high school

musicians who were selected to be part of the 2024 All-State

Band, Chorus and Orchestra

Funding for this program is provided

by Friends, the Iowa PBS Foundation.

And by ... Musco lighting is honored to support Iowa PBS.

We're an Iowa company that lights

local schools, community fields

and stadiums, arenas and venues in more than 125 countries.

While our reach is global, our commitment is local.

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O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties,

Above the fruited plain!

America! America!

God shed His grace on thee

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

America! America!

America!

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Dr. Rebecca Phillips: High school students are

at a really special place.

They are discovering so many new things.

Learning so much

about their instruments, about music, about life.

And when they learn something new and that light bulb comes on,

It's incredible to be able to witness that

and to see them say, oh, that's how that goes.

And I just love that.

That is the best part about teaching is seeing

and seeing the students be successful.

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Dr. Jeffery Ames: This is the first,

program for the All-State choir of all black composers.

So I'm really, really, really happy

that they have embraced this music and not embracing

that from a sense of, of,

appreciation,

Or, yea, isn't that nice?

But from a sense, a deep sense of gratitude

and, and knowing that, you know it,

you know, it takes all people to make the world go round and,

for them to sing this music and bring dignity and homage to

black composers is amazing.

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Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Gloria tibi Domine!

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Laudamus, damus te, Adoramus, adoramuste

Propter magnam gloriam tuam.

O wondrous light. Shine on this night.

And set our spirits free.

Live in our hearts. As we impart

His love for all to see.

Gloria in excelsis Deo. Alleluia!

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Laudamus, damus te, Adoramus, adoramuste

Rejoice and sing.

Our praises ring unto the newborn king.

Emmanuel, God is with us.

Emmanuel, Christ is born.

The angels sing, Alleluia!-

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Gloria!

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Dies iræ, dies illa

Solvet sæclum in favilla

Teste David cum Sibylla

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Quantus tremor est futurus

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Quando Judex est venturus

Cuncta stricte discussurus!

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Tuba mirum spargens sonum

Per sepulchra regionum

Coget omnes ante thronum

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Mors stupebit et natura

Cum resurget creatura

Judicanti responsura

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Judicanti responsura

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Rex tremendæ majestatis

Qui salvandos salvas gratis

Salva me, fons pietatis

Recordare, Jesu pie,

Quod sum causa tuæ viæ:

Ne me perdas illa die

Quærens me, sedisti lassus:

Redemisti Crucem passus:

Tantus labor non sit cassus

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Juste Judex ultionis

Donum fac remissionis

Ante diem rationis.

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Hear my cry, O God,

and listen to my prayer.

Hear my cry, O God, and listen to my prayer.

I call upon you.

I call upon you from the ends of the earth.

I call upon you with heaviness in my heart.

heaviness in my heart.

Hear my cry, O God,

and listen to my prayer.

Set me up on the rock that is higher than I.

I call upon you

Set me up on the rock

I call upon you

that is higher than I.

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Alleluia

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To sit and dream.

To sit and read.

To sit and learn about the world.

To sit and dream.

To sit and read.

To sit and learn about the world.

To sit and dream.

To sit and read.

To sit and learn about the world.

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Outside our world of here and now —

Our problem world —

Outside our world of here and now —

Our problem world —

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To dream of vast horizons of the soul

Of dreams made whole,

Unfettered, free — help me, help me.

All you who are dreamers too,

Help me, make our world anew.

I reach out my hand to you.

I reach out my hand.

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To sit and dream.

To sit and read.

To sit and learn about the world.

To sit and dream.

To sit and read.

To sit and learn about the world.

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To sit and dream.

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I can feel the spirit

moving inside of me.

I can feel the Spirit

and I just can’t hold my peace.

Feel it movin, down in my soul,

lifts me up and makes me whole,

I can feel the Spirit

Oh, yes! I feel the Spirit.

Don’t you feel it movin’?

Movin’, movin’, movin’,

So glad that I

feel it movin’ down in my soul!

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I can feel the spirit

moving inside of me.

I can feel the Spirit

and I just can’t hold my peace.

Feel it movin, down in my soul,

lifts me up and makes me whole,

I can feel the Spirit

Oh, yes! I feel the Spirit.

Don’t you feel it movin’?

Movin’, movin’, movin’,

So glad that I

feel it movin’ down in my soul!

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Feel the Spirit movin’

down in my soul.

Movin’ on the inside

making me whole.

Every day He keeps me,

I thank Him for His grace.

Feel it movin’ down in my soul.

I feel the Spirit, yes I feel the Spirit.

Movin’ on the inside, workin’ on the outside.

I can feel the Spirit

Makes me wanna sing, makes me wanna shout.

I can tell the world what I'm talking about.

I can feel the Spirit,

movin, in my soul..

I can feel the Spirit,

Oh, yes, I feel the Spirit.

Don’t you feel it movin’?

Movin’, movin’, movin’,

So glad that I

feel it movin’ down in my soul!

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Dr. Kayoko Dan: This piece has multiple movements,

and every movement is based on the paintings by Viktor Hartmann.

And every movement is very different.

So it allows the student different students

to shine in every movement,

which is very special because we get to feature

a euphonium player

or the trumpet player or a horn player, harpist.

It just has a beautiful way of displaying the talent

of the orchestra.

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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes

of wrath are stored;

He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His

terrible swift sword;

His truth is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

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I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred

circling camps;

They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;

I can read His righteous sentence by the dim

and flaring lamps,

His day is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

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In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,

With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;

As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free!

While God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

Amen!

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Funding for this program is provided

by Friends, the Iowa PBS Foundation.

And by ... Musco Lighting is honored to support Iowa PBS.

We're an Iowa company that lights

local schools, community fields,

and stadiums, arenas and venues in more than 125 countries.

While our reach is global, our commitment is local.