Our annual Educational Masterwork Collaboration returns having reached hundreds of student musicians across the Denver metro and Northern Colorado areas over the past five years. This is some of the most important work CRS undertakes, connecting with student musicians and supporting music educators. This season we are thrilled to bring to life Dan Forrest’s Jubilate Deo.
Dan Forrest’s Jubilate Deo brings to life the global aspect of the traditional Psalm 100 text, “O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands,” by setting it in seven different languages and drawing from a wide spectrum of musical influences. Each movement combines some characteristics of its language-group’s musical culture with the composer’s own musical language. Movements include liturgical Latin, intertwined Hebrew and Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Zulu, Spanish, Song of the Earth (untexted), and a closing movement combining several of these languages with English. The result is a stunning global celebration of joy, as all the earth sings as one, “omnis terra, jubilate!” www.danforrest.com