From the New World with Daniel Wiley

Name: From the New World with Daniel Wiley
Start: 2024-11-09T20:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-11-09T22:30:00-04:00
Location: Muncie Central High School

Schedule

Sat Nov 09 2024 at 08:30 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Muncie Central High School | Muncie, IN

From the New World, featuring Artistic Director Candidate Daniel Wiley, highlights and champions music originating from and inspired by various aspects of American culture. We set the stage with one our foundational musical genres, the spiritual. Deeply rooted in African American culture, the spiritual often focuses on overcoming intense adversity brought on by slavery and discrimination. Our opening set of pieces, Festival of American Spirituals and Three Spirituals, include famous and recognizable melodies such as: Little David, Play on Your Harp, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, Were You There?, Joshua, Nobody Know the Trouble I’ve Seen, Everytime I Feel the Spirit, and several others. These arrangements demonstrate the depth, color, and impact that the spiritual has had on our musical identity as Americans.