The Brass Herald published a very nice article and interview with our late colleague and trumpet virtuoso, Fred Mills in their August, 2009 issue. A pdf of the article is here,

Brass Herald 0908 Mills Interview

A slew of excellent music on tap today in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music:

Dennis Baraw, Double Bass - Edge Recital hall, 3:35 p.m.

UGA Tuba Euphonium Ensemble - Ramsey Concert Hall, 3:35 p.m.

Ayaka Sano, Violin - 5 p.m., Edge Recital Hall

Hodgson String Quartet - 6 p.m., Ramsey Concert Hall

Kristin Humbard, Pian0 - 6:30 p.m., Edge Recital Hall

Sara Elliott, Percussion - 8 p.m., Ramsey Concert Hall

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.

The Liszt-Garrison Festival and International Piano Competition is a prestigious four-day event that takes place biennially in Baltimore, Maryland. UGA professor Richard Zimdars, Despy Karlas Professor of Piano in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, has been a member of the Board of Advisors for the Liszt-Garrison Festival since 2006. In 2007, the “Despy Karlas Prize of the University of Georgia” was added to the Liszt-Garrison Competition.

AthenaOpera UGA Opera Ensemble will present Verdi's Falstaff tonight at Hugh Hodgson Hall at 8 p.m.. The Athens Banner Herald has an article on the performance and the impact of UGA professor and Metropolitan Opera baritone, Frederick Burchinal:

Athena Opera UGA Opera Ensemble is proud to present Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff this week.

General Admission Tickets are available for:

Dress Rehearsal - Wednesday, November 18, 7 p.m.

The Zagreb Saxophone Quartet spent the week of Oct. 26-30 in residency at the University of Georgia as Willson Center Visiting Artists. The residency culminated in a performance on Saturday, Oct. 31, that began the 32^nd season of the Franklin College Chamber Music Series.

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)

The Tuva are the people of southern Suberia; Tuvan throat singing is a musical form that has flourished for centuries in central Asia.

Is it possible to sing two tones at once? Come and hear a demonstration of the singing technique of khoomei (known simply as "throat singing" outside of Tuva) and learn about how it is produced. When the singer performs khoomei, precise acoustic filtering within the throat allows the listener to hear multiple tones simultaneously.

Come and learn!

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.