wild Imagination:
The Magic of Musical Storytelling

Wild Imagination is American Wild Ensemble’s youth and family program featuring musical adaptations of children’s literature and poetry. This program is designed to introduce our youngest listeners to the sounds of contemporary music through colorful adaptations of new and classic literary works and to promote a lifelong passion for reading and arts education in audiences of all ages.

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Commissions

Daniel Pesca: Pezzettino (2020)
Text by Leo Lionni

Kimberly Osberg: My Father’s Dragon (2021)
Text by Ruth Stiles Gannett

John Liberatore: Owl in Five Stories (2023)
Text by Arnold Lobel

Ingrid Stölzel: I Breathed a Song (2023)
Text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jennifer Murvin/Daniel Ketter: Like a Heart, a Bookshop (2023)

Performances

University of Notre Dame

Eastman School of Music

Lawrence Arts Center

Kansas City Downtown Public Library

Joplin Public Library

The Rabbit hOle