Robert T. Gibson completed his Master of Music in Choral Conducting at Missouri State University last spring. He now lives and works in Hershey, Pennsylvania, but is back in Springfield this week to conduct a concert by a nearly 30-voice chorus he founded two years ago, the Missouri State University Multicultural Ensemble, on Sunday October 8 at 7:30 pm in the Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts. It's free and open to the public, with seating right on the Hammons Hall stage. MSU President Clif Smart will offer opening remarks before the performance. According to Gibson, "Someone asked me (in 2015) to create an ensemble for the Martin Luther King Jr. parade, which was held at the Gillioz Theatre. So I got a couple of friends--it was about maybe seven of us." The group included his wife, along with several MSU choral students. They performed the spiritual "Ride On, King Jesus" and Gibson's own arrangement of the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Gibson and his fellow singers
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