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 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...
by Dallas Winds | Jul 8, 2020 | Gibson
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...
by Dallas Winds | Jun 26, 2020 | Gibson
Unable to play audio Works for Wind Ensemble by Composer-in-Residence John Gibson Horizon In 2001, I wrote a piece for the Bands of America honor band. It is called “Horizon” and is all about the future – what is on the horizon for all of us. While...
by Dallas Winds | Jun 17, 2020 | Gibson
Unable to play audio Works for Wind Ensemble by Composer-in-Residence John Gibson Resting In The Peace of His Hands It occurs to me that most of you have never really heard my most widely performed work. And, it seems to me that it is an appropriate bit of music for...
