The Hodgson School of Music welcomes UGA Parents and Families this weekend, Oct. 22-24.

As a part of the events planned across campus, the school of music will offer three free mini-concerts, as well as public tours of the building.

Tonight's 2nd Thursday Scholarship Series Concert, Basically Brass! features the UGA Faculty Brass Quintet with the Bulldog Brass Society. The series is off to a great start this year and continues tonight at Hodgson Concert Hall at 8 pm. Tickets are $15/$7 for students with a UGA ID.

Steven Stucky, awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra, will be in residence at the Hodgson School of Music Oct. 12-18

Single is a Cee Lo Green track:

The UGA Wind Ensemble, under the direction of John Lynch and with special guest conductor George Foreman, presents a free concert on the lawn today on the North Campus Quad, 12:30 pm.

Bring your lunch and enjoy some great music.

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Two guest artists, faculty from the Alessandria Conservatory, UGA's music study abroad partner institution, will play a special recital tonight in Ramsey Hall at 8 p.m.. Claudio Merlo, violoncello, and Giorgio Vercillo, piano, will play a program that includes the Sonata in G minor, op. 65 by Frédéric Chopin and the Adagio e Allegro, op.70 by Robert Schumann.

The concert is free and the public is invited to attend.

The Faculty Recital Series at the UGA Performing Arts Center kicks off tonight with Brandon Craswell. Tickets are $5. Craswell, trumpet, will be joined by Janet Craswell on piano.

8 p.m., Hodgson Concert Hall.

Tonight at 8 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall, don't miss a rare event - all three resident faculty ensembles performing on one in the same evening. The Georgia Woodwind Quintet, Georgia Brass Quintet and the Franklin String Quartet all boast new members this semester, as well.

Admission is free. This is a blue card event.