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.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 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!

{applause} 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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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.

♪♪ Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Gloria tibi Domine!

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

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!- ♪♪ Gloria!

♪♪ {applause} ♪♪ Dies ir, dies illa Solvet sclum in favilla Teste David cum Sibylla ♪♪ Quantus tremor est futurus ♪♪ Quando Judex est venturus Cuncta stricte discussurus!

Cuncta stricte discussurus!

♪♪ Tuba mirum spargens sonum Per sepulchra regionum Coget omnes ante thronum ♪♪ Mors stupebit et natura Cum resurget creatura Judicanti responsura ♪♪ Judicanti responsura ♪♪ Rex tremend majestatis Rex tremend majestatis Qui salvandos salvas gratis Salva me, fons pietatis Recordare, Jesu pie, Quod sum causa tu vi: Ne me perdas illa die Qurens me, sedisti lassus: Redemisti Crucem passus: Tantus labor non sit cassus ♪♪ Juste Judex ultionis Donum fac remissionis Ante diem rationis.

♪♪ {applause} Hear my cry, O God, and listen to my prayer.

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

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

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.

{applause} Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia {applause} ♪♪ 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 ♪♪ Outside our world of here and now — Our problem world — Outside our world of here and now — Our problem world — ♪♪ To dream of vast horizons of the soul Of dreams made whole, Unfettered, free — help me, help All you who are dreamers too, Help me, make our world anew.

I reach out my hand to you.

I reach out my hand to you.

I reach out my hand to you.

I reach out my hand to you.

I reach out my hand to you.

I reach out my hand to you.

I reach out my hand.

♪♪ 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 learn about the world ♪♪ To sit and dream.

{applause} ♪♪ I can feel the spirit moving inside of me.

I can feel the Spirit and I just cant 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.

Dont you feel it movin?

Movin, movin, movin, So glad that I feel it movin down in my soul!

♪♪ I can feel the spirit moving inside of me.

I can feel the Spirit and I just cant 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.

Dont you feel it movin?

Movin, movin, movin, So glad that I feel it movin down in my soul!

♪♪ 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, I can feel the Spirit, I can feel the Spirit, movin, in my soul..

I can feel the Spirit, Oh, yes, I feel the Spirit.

Dont you feel it movin?

Movin, movin, movin, So glad that I feel it movin down in my soul!

feel it movin down in my soul!

feel it movin down in my soul!

{applause} 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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Glory!

Glory!

Hallelujah!

Glory!

Glory!

Hallelujah!

Glory!

Glory!

Hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

♪♪ 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!

Glory!

Glory!

Hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 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!

Glory!

Glory!

Hallelujah!

Glory!

Glory!

Hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

Glory!

Glory!

Hallelujah!

Glory!

Glory!

Hallelujah!

Glory!

Glory!

Hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

Amen!

Amen!

{applause} 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.