Rob Gardner: Portraying the Savior in Music
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🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Rob Gardner is the composer of the well-known Easter oratorio "Lamb of God," and the arranger of the Latter-day Saint favorite, "Savior, Redeemer of my Soul." On this week's episode, in preparation for Easter, we sit down with Rob to discuss what he has learned from composing music about the Savior. We also get Rob's thoughts about what he believes those who knew and loved Christ during His mortal ministry must have felt and experienced during the final week of His life.
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| 0:43.6 | In a 2016 interview with me for the Desiret News Rob Gardner said that while riding his |
| 0:49.4 | Easter oratorio, Lamb of God, he found himself asking questions like, what was it like to |
| 0:56.0 | be in this moment and not know that Christ was going to be resurrected on Sunday? Why |
| 1:01.6 | did Peter deny him in the first place? What was his emotion afterward? What were his thoughts? |
| 1:08.2 | In honor of Easter, we recently sat down with Rob to talk about trying to see the Easter |
| 1:13.2 | story through the eyes of those who knew Christ personally. Rob Gardner is a composer, |
| 1:20.0 | producer, and conductor who you might best recognize as the composer of the Sacred |
| 1:25.3 | Music Oratorios, Joseph Smith the Prophet, and Lamb of God. He also arranged the version |
| 1:32.0 | of Savior Redeemer of my soul that has become a Latter-day Saint favorite. Most recently, |
| 1:38.0 | he has conducted and arranged the music for Cinematic Pop, an Arizona-based group that |
| 1:43.3 | sets iconic pop songs to a full orchestra and choir. |
| 1:50.6 | This is All-in, an LDS Living Podcast where we ask the question, what does it really |
| 1:55.6 | mean to be All-in the Gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm your host, Morgan Jones, and I'm so |
| 2:01.7 | excited to have with me today my friend Rob Gardner. Rob, thank you so much for being |
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