by Dallas Winds | Aug 6, 2020 | Program Notes
Pictures at an Exhibition As featured the August 10, 2020 episode of “Monday Night at the Symphony” on WRR 101. This broadcast is our September 20, 2011 performance from the Meyerson Symphony Center with guest Anton Nel, piano. Program August 10,...
by Dallas Winds | Aug 5, 2020 | Gibson
Unable to play audio Works for Wind Ensemble by Composer-in-Residence John Gibson In 2004, David Kehler, director of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Wind Ensemble (a much too long name) asked me to write a piece for the group. As it so happened, we were taking a...
by Dallas Winds | Jul 24, 2020 | Gibson
Unable to play audio Works for Wind Ensemble by Composer-in-Residence John Gibson Almost from the birth of the Dallas Winds, Elliott’s Hardware was one of the major sponsors. We hatched a plan to honor Elliot’s in 2010 which would involve creating a piece using only...
by Dallas Winds | Jul 22, 2020 | Program Notes
Listen to WRR Online Now! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756—December 5, 1791) According to his contemporaries, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a short, slender man with wispy blond hair and scars on his face from a childhood bout of smallpox. At the same time, he...
by Dallas Winds | Jul 16, 2020 | Gibson
Unable to play audio Works for Wind Ensemble by Composer-in-Residence John Gibson Today’s selection is the shortest concert piece I have ever written. It lasts anywhere from 1:38 to 1:44, depending on the skill of the players and the outlandish chutzpah of the...
