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 our current situation.
I wrote it in 3 days and nights (Saturday through Monday) in 1995 for Jack Delaney and the Meadows Wind Ensemble who performed it at Texas Music Educators convention the following Thursday. The inspiration is a sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz which is a part of the collection of the Busch-Reisenger Museum at Harvard. It is a “stream of conscious” piece, as I did not have time to do anything but write it down, by hand. It has taken me years to understand what I wrote.