For his faculty recital, D. Ray McClellan, professor of clarinet, decided to share the spotlight.

We're working hard to update things around here, and to that end, there are a lot of things you may have missed.  There's an awful lot to be proud of, from our students to our faculty!

Here's some selected tidbits from April 2012 until now:

Cello professor David Starkweather will join the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra in performing the masterworks of Antonín Dvořák on Thursday, September 13 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Tickets for the program, which opens the 2012-2013 Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s 2^nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series, are $18/$5 for students and available via the UGA Performing Arts Center box office at 706/542/4400 or online at www.uga.edu/pac.

The final chapter of Dr. Roger Vogel's career at the University of Georgia came last spring, when the professor emeritus retired after 36 years of teaching Music Theory and Composition.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music is proud to announce the first guest recital of Fall 2012 will be James Ackley, trumpet.  The Hodgson School is always proud to host performances by the world's top musical talent, and this inaugural concert continues a longstanding tradition of bringing high-quality musical performances to our students, school, and community.

Picture this:  you're eating lunch at Tate, flipping through a copy of the Red & Black and passing the time until your next class.

You've resigned yourself to the fact that it's just another typically gray, balmier-than-it-should-be November afternoon in north Georgia.

Then, with a start, you suddenly notice the music.  Not piped-in muzak, but something startlingly clear and close.  Turning around, you see a student standing on one of the tables, shredding his violin on a blazingly technical Paganini caprice.

The University of Georgia Wind Ensemble is proud to announce the release of its new recording, Street Song, on the Naxos label. 

Some things are to be expected every time the fall semester rolls around.

Traffic. Classes.  More people downtown.  All-nighters. Football...

... and the Second Thursday Scholarship Series at University of Georgia's Performing Arts Center.