Blog Entries

THE SOUND OF LIGHT

rgibson@umd.edu — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

My administrative position in the School of Music and my work on a new composition have kept me from making regular entries in my blog. I now find it ironic, that, when I am able to carve out the time to write about my new piece, The Sound of Light, the opportunity to blog at the Clarice Smith Center's wonderful Engagement Project website will result in my referring you here to read about this piece.

The Center's website is a beautiful venue, so I hope that you will follow me there for [...]

CONCORDIA IN ST. PAUL

rgibson@umd.edu — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100

My composition Concordia for cello sextet was recently performed in St. Paul by a wonderful group of cellists (pictured above from left to right): Tony Ross, principal cellist of the Minnesota Orchestra, Eugena Chang, Tanya Remenikova, Sally Dorer, Arek Tesarczyk, and Marcia Peck. The concert was part of The Bakken Trio Concert Series in the very attractive Huss Music Room of the historic Hamm Building in [...]

KISS THE SKY

rgibson@umd.edu — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Every once in a long while a musician arrives on the planet who changes the way we experience music.

I was recently in Seattle attending the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music and had the opportunity to visit the aptly named Experience Music Project, which includes at present an exhibition of one of the city's native sons: "Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution in Sound.&quo [...]

SPIRIT OF SMALL WINGS

rgibson@umd.edu — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100

There may be, for aught we know, infinite inventions of art, the possibility whereof we should hardly believe if they were forereported to us. Had we lived in some rude and remote part of the world, and been told that it is possible, with only a hollow piece of wood and the guts of beasts stirred by the fingers of man, to make so sweet and melodious a noise, we should have thought it utterly incredible, yet now that we see and hear it ordinarily done, we make it no wonder.