Hodgson Singers joined by Glee Clubs Oct. 4

Hodgson Singers
Hodgson Concert Hall

The concert on Tuesday, Oct. 4, entitled "How Can I Keep from Singing?", will feature performances of the Glee Clubs and Hodgson Singers, Sarah Frook Gallo and Daniel Bara, conductors.  This the first time these choirs will perform in concert on campus without masks since the spring of 2020.  The pieces will be varied in style, and include themes expressing despair and hope, romantic love, female empowerment, and the joys and rewards of hard work.  All three choirs are comprised of singers who are music majors and non-music-majors.  Some represented composers include Sulpitia Cesis, Sarah Quartel, Ernesto Herrera, Elaine Hagenberg, Ruthie Foster, Jester Hairston, Z. Randall Stroope, Alexandra Olsavsky, and Andrea Ramsey.



The performance in Hodgson Concert Hall begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults and $3 students/children. This concert will be streamed live at http://www.music.uga.edu/live-streaming.

UGA Symphonic Band on Sept. 28

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UGA Symphonic Band

The UGA Symphonic Band, directed by Michael C. Robinson with Jeremy Smith and Molly Blair, performs classic wind band repertoire in their first concert of the year, Wednesday, September 28. The program includes music by Jack Stamp, David Gillingham, John Barnes Chance, John Philip Sousa, Samuel Hazo, and Johan de Meij.



UGA Symphonic Band on Sept. 28

Symphonic Band
Hodgson Concert Hall

The UGA Symphonic Band, directed by Michael C. Robinson with Jeremy Smith and Molly Blair, performs classic wind band repertoire in their first concert of the year, Wednesday, September 28. The program includes music by Jack Stamp, David Gillingham, John Barnes Chance, John Philip Sousa, Samuel Hazo, and Johan de Meij.



Admission is free to the 7:30 concert in UGA Performing Arts Center's Hodgson Concert Hall. The event will also be live-streamed: https://www.music.uga.edu/performing-arts-center-live-streaming. The Symphonic Band is the largest of the three year-round wind bands in the Hodgson School. Students representing a wide array of academic disciplines perform four concerts each academic year.

Heald and Sheludyakov open the Faculty Recital Series

Heald and Sheludyakov
Hugh Hodgson School of Music
Ramsey Concert Hall

Michael Heald and Anatoly Sheludyakov will present a recital of violin and piano music at the Ramsey Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center on September 19 at 7:30pm.This is part of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s Faculty Recital Series.They will perform sonatas by Mozart, Amy Beach, and Edward Elgar. Audiences may be less familiar with the works of Beach and Elgar, but they are both wonderful examples of music of the second half of the romantic era, full of expression and personal emotional gesture in combination with virtuosity and dramatic flair. Tickets are $12 for adults and $3 for children and students and are available from the UGA Performing Arts Center.

Thursday Scholarship Series to Open September 15

UGASO
Hodgson Concert Hall

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music Thursday Scholarship Series will open on Thursday, September 15, 7:30 in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall.  Featured on the concert will be the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra.

Since 1997, the UGA Symphony Orchestra has opened this series, just weeks after classes begin.  For this year’s concert, conductor Mark Cedel has chosen a selection of concert favorites. 

Opening the concert will be Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz.  In this overture, you can hear the same vitality and colors one hears in the composer’s most famous work, Symphonie fantastique.  Following the overture, the orchestra will perform the Firebird Suite 1919 by Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky was a young, virtually unknown composer when Diaghilev recruited him to create works for the Ballets Russes.  The success of the ballet was the start of Stravinsky's partnership with Diaghilev, which would subsequently produce further ballet productions until 1923, including the acclaimed Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913).  The concert will conclude with a performance of Brahms Symphony No 3 in F Major.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $3 for children and students and are available from the PAC box office or online at pac.uga.edu.

Thursday Scholarship Series to Open September 15

UGASO
Hodgson Concert Hall

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music Thursday Scholarship Series will open on Thursday, September 15, 7:30 in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. Featured on the concert will be the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra.

Since 1997, the UGA Symphony Orchestra has opened this series, just weeks after classes begin. For this year’s concert, conductor Mark Cedel has chosen a selection of concert favorites.

Opening the concert will be Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz. In this overture, you can hear the same vitality and colors one hears in the composer’s most famous work, Symphonie fantastique. Following the overture, the orchestra will perform the Firebird Suite 1919 by Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky was a young, virtually unknown composer when Diaghilev recruited him to create works for the Ballets Russes. The success of the ballet was the start of Stravinsky's partnership with Diaghilev, which would subsequently produce further ballet productions until 1923, including the acclaimed Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). The concert will conclude with a performance of Brahms Symphony No 3 in F Major.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $3 for children and students and are available from the PAC box office or online at pac.uga.edu.

Georgia Brass Quintet

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GBQ performance

Not your standard brass quintet concert!! This is a concert not to be missed! Our guest will be a voice you are familiar with, Tony Messano. You have heard him at ATL, now come meet him in person!

The program will feature Eugene Bozza’s Sonatine, but with a wonderful story of Phillipe the Penguin! This story is written by Dorian Rence and illustrated by Marion Schoevaert. Tony will also narrate Anthony Plog’s Animal Ditties, with wonderful illustrations by our own Dr. Craswell’s little Hadleigh.