Music Can, Woodstock School District 200 Choral Festival 2023

I was commissioned by Woodstock School District 200 to compose the finale for their district wide Choral Festival. My amazingly gifted brother John wrote the lyrics and "Music Can" was debuted this past Monday. The conductor is Duane Peiffer, Christopher Rausch is the pianist, Dung Pham is the cellist, and Lyndra Bastian is the violinist. Kudos to the choral staff for preparing the students so well.
This is the text:
Music can
Surprise, enrage, excite, inspire
Speak the secrets of desire
Send the spirit ever higher
Transform a spark into a fire
Music can, Music can
Music does
Reveal the depths of all emotion
Voice the faithful's deep devotion
Set ideas into motion
Bridge the continents and oceans
Music does, Music does
Music will
Arouse with chords and words and rhyme
Transport you to another time
Connect the lowly and sublime
Belong to you your whole lifetime
Music will, Music will