By Andrew S. Hughes
SOUTH BEND, IN — Soon after Jorge Muñiz moved to South Bend, he and Wishart Bell developed the sort of friendship that involves meeting for coffee several times a year.At one of those coffee get-togethers last year, Bell mentioned that Musical Arts Indiana, the choral and orchestra organization he founded in 1993 as the Vesper Chorale and continues to oversee as its artistic director, wanted to commission a new work from a local composer.
A composer and professor of music at Indiana University South Bend, Muñiz responded the way Bell seemingly hoped he would: Yes, he had a piece that hadn’t yet been performed and that he could revise to fit the instrumentation and size of Musical Arts’ orchestra.
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