Tonight at 8 pm in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, the UGA Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Mark Cedel, presents a free concert featuring the Symphony No. 4 in D minor by Robert Schumann and the Symphony No. 9 in E flat major by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Come join us for a (free) night of great music.
The University of Georgia Wind Ensemble under the direction of John Lynch, UGA Director of Bands, toured Argentina recently from May 10 to May 17 as an invited performing ensemble for the nation’s 200th bicentennial celebration. The travelling party of 60 included students and faculty including Dale Monson, Director of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and faculty soloists Angela Jones-Reus (flute), Amy Marinello (bassoon) and Scott Pollard (percussion).
The Wind Ensemble was based in the heart of Buenos Aires, one of South America’s most vibrant cities, with side trips to Hurlingham and Mercedes. They performed four concerts to enthusiastic packed houses including one at the Conservatory in Buenos Aires, one for grade school students in Hurlingham, a concert in the nearby city of Mercedes (photo below), and a joint performance with the Hurlingham Youth Symphony at the famous concert hall of the Law School of Buenos Aires. The repertoire was a combination of music from Latin American and the United States including a new flute concerto “The Shadow of Sirius” commissioned by UGA from Baltimore composer Joel Puckett featuring Angela Jones-Reus. Amy Marinello and Scott Pollard performed a tango duet by famous Argentinian composer Astor Piazzola.
Everyone had a wonderful time and exposure to this new culture was a life changing experience. The trip included tours of the vibrant neighborhoods and most significant sights in Buenos Aires, a tango dinner show, and a day at a traditional Gaucho ranch complete with horseback riding, a folk music and dance show and traditional Argentinian barbeque. The members of The University of Georgia Wind Ensemble enjoyed serving as positive ambassadors for the University and the United States.
Tonight’s Wind Symphony concert features conductors Gregg Gausline, Nikk Pilato and Josh Byrd, and as guest artist, HHSOM assistant professor Amy Marinello, bassoon.
The program will include works by Paul Richards, William Schuman, Chen Yi, Fracois Gossec, Carl Maria von Weber and Percy Grainger.
The free concert begins at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall and the public is invited to attend.
Join us tonight at 8 p.m. in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall for a special Holy Week Concert performance by the UGA Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mark Cedel.
This evening’s program:
Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
Haydn – Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor
Strauss – Till Eulenspiegel
Admission to the concert is free and the public is invited to attend.
If you’re walking the corridors of the Hodgson School over the next three days and you love the saxophone, you’re in heaven. They’re everywhere. Performing, rehearsing, giving lessons, taking lessons, judging, being judged, warming up, sitting out front of the building in the sun… all the fun of being serious performer is operational and in action around the music school these days, all part of the biennial NASA Conference going on here.
The fun continues tonight with a performance by the UGA Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble which I am told will feature no less than five saxophone concertos.
7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Concert Hall.
Free.
A very full week of music at the HHSOM kicks ofF with tonight’s Wind Symphony Concert. The Wind Symphony is conducted by Gregg Gausline and tonight’s concert will feature oboe faculty member Dwight Manning and guest conductor Mark Spede, Director of Bands at Clemson University.
Tonight’s program;
Antiphonal Fanfare – Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn
Suite Francaise – Darius Milhaud
If thou Be Near – Bach/Reed
Noisy Wheels of Joy – Eric Whitacre
Divertimento – Vincent Persichetti
Variations on a Theme of Glinka – Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dwight Manning, oboe
Fiesta del Pacifico – Roger Nixon
The music begins at 8 p.m.in Hodgson Concert Hall at the Performing Arts Center. Admission is free and, as always, the public is invited to attend.
While much of the faculty of the Hodgson School goes down to Savannah this week for the GMEA conference to connect with colleagues, alumni and future students, it’s a good time to mention the eminent return of a Hodgson School alumni. Broadway star Tituss Burgess, a graduate of Cedar Shoals High School as well as UGA, returns to Athens on Feb. 13 to kick-off the Morton Theatre’s Centennial Celebration.
Tituss Burgess…One Night Only! February 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Historic Morton Theatre in downtown Athens.
Burgess’ recent roles include Nicely Nicely Johnson in the new Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls. He originated the role of Sebastian the Crab in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, as well as original Broadway cast roles in Jersey Boys and Good Vibrations. Regionally he was seen in The Wiz as the Cowardly Lion in La Jolla, and Songs For A New World with Jason Robert Brown, Brian D’arcy James, and Alice Ripley. He played Father in Children of Eden, Jim in Big River, and a host of other roles. In the concert world, Tituss has served as soloist with the Prague Symphony Orchestra and for Academy Award Winner Ennio Morricone. His television credits include The 2009 Tony Awards, The View, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Late Night with David Letterman.
Tickets on sale now at the Morton Theatre box office, 706-613-3771, or www.mortontheatre.com.
Hodgson String Quartet to give inaugural concert
Athens, Ga. – The Hodgson String Quartet will play its inaugural concert at 6 p.m. on Nov. 30 in Ramsey Concert Hall at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center. The quartet, consisting of graduate students from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will play selections by Mozart, Shostakovich and Schubert. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.
Formed in spring 2009, the quartet serves as a representative, ambassadorial ensemble for the music school, reflecting the quality of its student and faculty performers. The intent of the quartet is to provide a featured performing ensemble for music students at UGA, in service of honoring the legacy of Hugh Hodgson.
“The Hodgson String Quartet is a living tribute to Hugh Hodgson that embodies our mission of teaching, creative activity and service,” said Dale Monson, director of the music school. “Whether featured at special events or treating our campus community to recitals, the quartet shows university students and faculty at their highest level.”
The Hodgson String Quartet is currently comprised of Jikyung Moon and Rafael Ferronato, violins; Ulisses Silva, viola; David Peyton, cello and coached by David Starkweather, professor of music. The permanent quartet is generously supported by private contributions to the music school.
The University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music presents the Southern Wind Quintet, Friday, Nov. 13 at 6:00 p.m in Ramsey Concert Hall at the UGA Performing Arts Center. The program for the free performance will be:
Concertante Quintet No 1 in B-flat, op.4, no. 1 Giovanni G. Cambini (1746-1825)
Allegro maestoso
Larghetto cantabile
Rondo-allegretto grazioso
Pastoral Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
La Cheminée du Roi René Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Cortége
Aubade
Jongleurs
La Maousinglade
Chasse à Valabre
Madrigal-Nocturne
Roaring Fork Eric Ewazen (1954)
Whitewater Rapids (Maroon Creek)
Columbines (Snowmass Lake)
At the Summit (Buckskin Pass)
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Southern Wind Quintet:
Katherine Isbill, flute
Whitney Holley, oboe
Will Casada, clarinet
Benjamin Smith, bassoon
Andrew Emmons, horn
The concert at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers on Sunday was a smashing success, with more than 700 in attendance. We’ll have a first-person account from one of the Choir members up here this week, so please check back. Congratulations to all the Hugh Hodgson School of Music students and faculty.
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