Rob Gardner for Our God Has Spoken Once Again
Rob Gardner is a composer, conductor, and producer.
Gardner was built-in in 1978 and grew up in Mesa, Arizona. His female parent required him and his eight siblings to play an instrument from 5th course through high school. He played the trumpet and in eighth grade, started singing. His vii-member a capella grouping, Two Five Nine, recorded v albums and toured the Us. After serving missions and attending Brigham Young University, the group recorded three more albums.
While on his mission in the France Bordeaux mission for The Church building of Jesus Christ of Latter-mean solar day Saints, he wrote "He Is Jesus Christ" at the request of his mission president. While at BYU, he translated it into English language and performed it numerous times at BYU and in Provo with volunteer orchestras and choirs. From this attempt, he and others formed the nonprofit Spire Music Visitor. He primarily composes sacred music oratorios ("Joseph Smith the Prophet," "Lamb of God,"—both recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra—"Saints and Pioneers"), just has composed flick scores and musicals ("Blackbeard," "The Toll of Freedom," and "12 Princesses").
His albums include Cinematic Pop Alive, We Must Sing, Lamb of God, The Missionary Hymn Projection, The Cost of Freedom, and Blackbeard. He helped found the group known as Cinematic Pop. The group appeared on television set's "America'southward Got Talent" and received a standing ovation.
Gardner earned his bachelor'south degree in management and entrepreneurship from BYU and did graduate work at the University of Southern California in the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program.
More on Lamb of God
A special concert film of Gardner'southward Lamb of God will open exclusively in theaters on March 12, 2021. The post-obit excerpts nearly the genesis of the oratorio appeared in the Deseret News in May 2016 and was reprinted in LDS Living in Feb 2021.
- In November 2009, Rob Gardner emailed a proposal to the London Symphony Orchestra. He wanted to compose and bear an oratorio about the last week of the Savior's life, and he knew that if he could involve the London Symphony Orchestra, which he considers the best in the world, he could compose the work he envisioned.
- The thought for the proposed project came to Gardner while he was serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-solar day Saints in the France Bordeaux Mission from 1996–1998. Gardner entered the mission field with a broad range of musical experience, having performed in an a cappella grouping during high school and composed music for his school'southward orchestra. Despite Gardner's best efforts to go along his musical abilities a secret, his female parent made sure his mission president knew.
- Gardner's mission president, Charles Cuénot, a native of France, understood the difficulty missionaries in the area faced in getting people to listen to their message. In an effort to assist the missionaries find more than people to teach, President Cuénot started hosting musical presentations in diverse areas around the mission before Gardner was always called to serve there.
- Approximately six or vii months subsequently Gardner arrived in French republic, President Cuénot asked him to compose an original piece. Gardner told his mission president that he would rather non because he just wanted to be a missionary, but President Cuénot insisted. Gardner finished writing the piece a few months after, and the following Christmas, his composition about the life of Christ was performed for audiences throughout the mission.
- "It was really astonishing because at that point I had been out almost a yr and a half and had barely gotten into a handful of doors, . . . and here we were with a captive audience every dark," Gardner said. "It was pretty incredible for all of the states crush-downwards, weary missionaries to get to sing nigh Christ around Christmastime and share that message, and so information technology was pretty neat, only I was a piffling reluctant at starting time."
- Still, it bothered Gardner that his composition was only able to spend 10-12 minutes on the Atonement and the stop of the Savior'southward life. He knew at that place was and then much more to the story. Upon returning dwelling, Gardner didn't immediately brainstorm composing, but his desire to write more about this function of the Savior's life was always in the back of his mind.
It was not until 2009, when Gardner was iv months into a yearlong graduate program in scoring for motility pictures and television at the University of Southern California that he felt he could no longer put off the project he had considered for more than than ten years.
"I realized that I needed to kind of drib everything and write it because I kept telling myself, 'I need to be a ameliorate composer because I desire it to be amazing, and I want it to be worthy of the subject matter,'" Gardner said. "I had lots of concepts for it, and finally I just said to myself, and this is kind of a good lesson for life, 'I'm never going to exist a adept enough composer' . . . I'm ever going to expect at others and admire what they do, and if I wait to practise something until I'm the all-time or until I'thousand actually skillful, it's never going to happen. I'yard merely going to put information technology off until I dice, having done nil, so I just said, 'OK, I'll do it now.'"
- Gardner, who had no connection to the orchestra and says he but had the "brazenness" to ask, sent an email to the London Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra responded, like-minded to record with Gardner in June 2010. Gardner dropped out of his graduate program and devoted himself to completing the work. As he began to write, he discovered that Christ'southward life was about much more than than just 1 man, and the story became one about others' relationships with Christ.
- "It's about Christ, but information technology's really most Peter and Mary and Martha and all of those people and their relationship with Christ," Gardner said. "And when that idea occurred to me, it just started writing itself considering that'south something we can all relate to, trying to have a relationship with the Savior. It's hard to relate to the Savior's experience considering of who he is and what he went through, only it's easier to relate to Peter and Thomas, who we see as human and having failings, who overcame those, and to see how that goes was a lot more compelling to me in teaching how the Atonement works and non just what the story is."
- The finished product, composed in just six months, became known equally "Lamb of God," an oratorio that has been performed throughout the world. The oratorio explores the last week of the Savior's mortal ministry building.
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