The University of Toledo’s Department of Music presents the 2024 Spring Festival of New Music, which this year encompasses two concerts featuring works by Stacey V. Gibbs.
The annual festival of new music includes the Large Ensembles Concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4, and the High School and Community Choral Concert at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6. The free, public concerts are in Doermann Theatre in University Hall.
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Parking permits are not needed after 5 p.m. Saturday, but will be enforced for reserved, disabled, metered and patient parking spaces/areas. Thursday parking requires payment through the ParkMobile app, a parking meter or a daily permit via ParkUToledo. Visit the ParkUToledo website for more information.
A Detroit resident, Gibbs is a prolific composer, arranger and clinician best known for his arrangement of spirituals. His music has been programmed at numerous national choral festivals and conventions, and his setting of “Way Over in Beulah Lan'” was performed at the 57th Inaugural Service for President Barack Obama.
The UToledo choirs along with the symphonic wind ensemble and orchestra ensembles will perform in the Large Ensembles Concert. The program feature works by contemporary composers including Gibbs.
Gibbs will perform with high school and community singers in the High School and Community Choral Concert, which will be the culmination of a day of coaching and rehearsals with the composer.
For more information on the Spring Festival of New Music, go to the Department of Music website.
