A WMU gifted student brings an inspired lyric and a haunting melody to his teacher.

The teacher, recognizing the beauty of the creation, jumps on board the process and adds the musical arrangement, the orchestration, the production
to the moment.

Then the teacher turns to a the perfect WFM artist to sing the song. Not only does she sing the song fulfilling the student’s imagination, but she also takes it a few steps forward with improvisational ideas based upon the themes of the student that take the song to new plateaus.

The teacher dives in again with more arrangement, orchestration, production and the song evolves from song to suite.

“In music, a suite (pronounced "sweet") is a collection of short musical pieces which can be played one after another. The pieces are usually dance movements. The French word “suite” means “a sequence” of things, i.e. one thing following another.”

“In the 17th century many composers such as Bach and Handel wrote suites.”

In the 21st century, student Steve Okwor, a Christian Science nurse from Nigeria, collaborated with teacher, Peter Link, from St. Louis,
and artist Jenny Burton from The Bronx
to create ...

I Run To The Rock - The Suite