Man Dreams in Hardware

Man Dreams in Hardware

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...
Mozart vs. Varese

Mozart vs. Varese

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...
Pegasus

Pegasus

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...
American Tapestry

American Tapestry

American Tapestry – Compositions of John Mackey “American Tapestry – Compositions of John Mackey” as featured the July 13, 2020 episode of “Monday Night at the Symphony” on WRR 101. This broadcast is our April 11, 2017 performance...
American Anthem

American Anthem

Unable to play audio Works for Wind Ensemble by Composer-in-Residence John Gibson “American Anthem” comes out of a crisis we faced as a nation. In the summer of 2001 I was commissioned to write a piece for the Texas Wind Symphony (the Fort Worth version of...