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Thursday Scholarship Series with Mozart, Puccini

The UGA Opera Theatre returns to Hodgson Concert Hall for the Thursday Scholarship Series, performing two one-act comic operas—Mozart's "The Impresario" and Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi"—in two performances on October 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m.  The Opera Theatre will combine with the UGA Symphony Orchestra to stage these opera masterpieces, semi-staged with English supertitles. This is the first time the Hugh Hodgson School…

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Hodgson Wind Ensemble presents "American Guernica" Oct. 6

The composition tries to capture that moment: its precursor, the act itself and its wake. The inscription on the score reads, “for Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia, and Denise; the four girls ages 14, 14, 14, and 11, killed at the 16th Street Baptist Church.”  The HWE and other ensembles in the school of music continue to incorporate innovative programming to win over new audiences. The repertoire here is first-rate, and inviting audience members…


Art Tonight at Lamar Dodd

Tonight, the closing reception for “Spectra: Lamar Dodd School of Art Faculty Exhibition" will begin at 7 p.m. at the Dodd Galleries. It's your last chance to view this vast collection of Lamar Dodd faculty art.  Named for the broad array of styles conveyed, the exhibition presents works from the school’s many departments,including ceramics, printmaking, photography, metalwork, drawing and painting and sculpture, this latest feature…

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2016 Shouky Shaheen Distinguished Lecturer Suzanne Massie

The author who wrote, together with her then husband Robert K. Massie, the influential book Nicholas and Alexandra: An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of the Russian Empire, Suzanne Massie will deliver the 2016 Shouky Shaheen Distinguished Lecture in the Lamar Dodd School of Art on Friday September 23 at 5:30 p.m. in room S150: Massie is both the 2016 Shouky Shaheen Distinguished Lecturer in the Arts and keynote…

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Neupert book explores Pixar revolution

Animation in modern storytelling is the focus of a new book by Wheatley Professor of the Arts in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies Richard Neupert on Pixar's "Chief Creative Officer," John Lasseter: Lasseter films from Luxo Jr. to Toy Story and Cars 2 highlighted his gift for creating emotionally engaging characters. At the same time, they helped launch computer animation as a viable commercial…

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Painting the Luster: Margaret Morrison

How did this stunning piece come to life? How long did it take to complete it? Can we expect more of such artworks? On this and more, we had the pleasure of talking about with the artist herself. Scroll down to read our interview with Margaret Morrison! Read the whole thing, as they say. A wonderful discussion of Morrison's relationship with her gallery as well as her career, all in the artist's own words. Our visual arts faculty members blend…

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Spectra: Lamar Dodd School of Art Faculty Exhibition

The School of Art presents a special faculty exhibition, Spectra, with an opening reception tonight at 6 p.m. in the Dodd Galleries: Spectra relates to a broad array of ideas or objects, all falling on a continuum which aptly describes the works by artists teaching at the Lamar Dodd School of Art featured in this exhibition. Such artists include Benjamin Britton, an abstract painter who creates works that represent or embody…

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PAC, Hodgson School season kick off with Golden Age Band

The UGA Performing Arts Center and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music jointly kick off the performance season next week on August 25 with a collaborative musical journey through American band music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: The concert, which is the joint kickoff to the School of Music’s Thursday Scholarship Series and the UGA Performing Arts Center’s (PAC) season, assembles a rare group under the baton of …

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UGA joins A2RU

The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) is a partnership of over thirty institutions committed to ensuring the greatest possible institutional support for the full spectrum of arts and arts-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice for the benefit of all students and faculty at research universities and the communities they serve. UGA has become its newest member: The world’s most pressing…

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2016-17 Thursday Scholarship Series Concerts

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music announced the line-up for this year's Thursday Scholarship Series Concerts. Formerly known as the Second Thursday Scholarship Series, the name has been changed but the rich tradition benefiting our music students and delighting audiences continues: the revamped concert series promises to make each concert into an event, with opportunities in and around the concert to deepen and enhance the experience of listening…


Collaborative Community: Arts, Education, Sustainability

Many of these programs are affiliated with UGA. Just take a look at this list of grant awardees and you will quickly see just how well our local community entities work hand in hand towards similar goals. Whether it's sustainability, education for the arts or any other number of projects that benefit the Athens community at large, we are lucky to live in a community that values these partnerships and continues to use them to better our…


Art and Poetry: Tonight

As the end of another lazy summer week nears on campus, we wanted to tell you about a couple of events that are happening tonight that help promote the arts and literacy. Both events are free and provide ample reason to get out and explore something new tonight. First up, you won't want to miss the summer version of Museum Mix, a night party at the Georgia Museum of Art with a DJ, free food and access to all of the galleries until midnight.…


Ph.D. Music Student Awarded Fulbright Grant

The Arnold Schönberg Center, established in 1998 in Vienna, is an unique repository of Arnold Schönberg’s archival legacy and a cultural center that is open to the public. Arnold Schönberg – composer, painter, teacher, theoretician and innovator – was born in Vienna in 1874 and died in Los Angeles in 1951. He also resided in Berlin, Barcelona, Paris and Boston. In music history Schönberg’s name is associated with an epoch-making innovation: the…

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Lineage Percussion wins bronze at 2016 Fischoff

The Fischoff National Chamber Music Association sponsors the nation's largest chamber music competition at Notre Dame University. Congratulations to Hugh Hodgson School of Music students Trevor Barroero, Lauren Floyd, and Wesley Sumpter, also known as Lineage Percussion, who were named the bronze medalist of the 2016 Fischoff Competition. They are the first percussion ensemble in the 43-year history of Fischoff to be a finalist in the…

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UGA CWP Faculty Reading

The Creative Writing Program presents its yearly faculty reading, tonight from 7 – 9 p.m. at Cine in downtown Athens. This widely-published and award winning group of writers and scholars include LeAnne Howe, Reginald McKnight, Ed Pavlić, Jed Rasula, Andrew Zawacki, and Magdalena Zurawski. Faculty members will read from current or past creative projects, representing diverse genres and aesthetics. Great authors with…

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2016 MFA Exhibition

The Georgia Museum of Art will host the 2016 exit show for Master of Fine Arts degree candidates at the Lamar Dodd School of Art beginning April 9 and on view until May 1. The opening reception on Friday April 8 at 6 pm is free and open to the public. This year's graduates work in a variety of media from printmaking to painting, jewelry, photography and installation and engage a diverse set of themes. "The exhibition reveals the rigorousness of…

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University Theatre presents Sweeney Todd

Music and murder are on the menu for University Theatre’s final production of the season, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, directed by George Contini.  Performances will be in the Fine Arts Theatre April 14-15, 20-23 at 8 p.m. and April 17 & 24 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $16, $12 for students, and can be purchased at drama.uga.edu/box-office, by phone at 706-542-4400…

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Choral Ensembles Second Thursday Concert

"We're hoping this will be an engaging and entertaining program for the audience, featuring a collage-like succession of choral performances," Bara said. That's a pretty special Second Thursday lineup, featuring many students and highlighting our excellent choral program. Bringing a growing, national reputation to local stages on a regular basis, our large vocal ensembles present a range of repertoire built around soaring artistry that inspires…

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Hodgson School alumnus onstage in Copland's The Tender Land

One of our favorite, young Hodgson School of Music alumni, tenor Joseph Brent continues his quest as a performer and artist in the Michigan Opera's production of Copland's The Tender Land: The Tender Land is the quintessential American opera composed by Aaron Copland, the Dean of American composers. His music is readily recognizable and speaks of the American landscape. The opera is about a traditional, humble, rural 1930s family suspicious…

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2016 Science and Medical Illustration Exhibition

An awards reception for the Exhibition will take place on March 16 at 6 p.m. in Gallery 307. It's great work by our students and very worthy of your time if you've never seen it. Congratulations to professor Gene Wright in the Dodd, who leads this distinguished program and has introducd many UGA students to rewarding careers as illustrators.

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Neupert interview in new Rivette restoration

On March 8, the American video-distribution company Criterion Collection will release a new 2K digital restoration of Jacques Rivette's 1961 classic, PARIS BELONGS TO US. Among the added features to the new disc is an interview with Wheatley Professor of the Arts in the department of theatre and film studies, Richard Neupert. Author of A History of the French New Wave Cinema, Neupert is featured in an Intro "bonus track" on the…


CORE Spring Concerts

The concert will open with a series of repertory pieces created by Sarasvati that demonstrate an array of technical dance abilities on bungee, single point lyra, silks and slings, along with sustained physical partnering and the incorporation of film animation.  Dance, as is said, is a form of language that transcends not only cultures but also species. Dancers are storytellers who share their stories with their bodies, and the…

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Machiavelli's The Mandrake

University Theatre and director T. Anthony Marotta present a new twist on an old tale of desire and deception: The play revolves around characters pursuing their desires by any means necessary: Callimaco (played by Drew Atkinson) years for the beautiful Lucrezia (played by Kileigh Adams), a virtuous young woman married to foolish old Calfucci (played by Hannah Klevesahl). Calfucci is desperate for an heir while Lucrezia’s mother, Sostrata (…

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2016 Dodd Chair lecture

While in residence as the Dodd Chair, Pfeiffer will work with the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications sports journalism students as well as art students. The Dodd Chair was established in 1970 when Elaine de Kooning served as the first visiting professor of art at the Dodd. Ever since, the Dodd Chair has allowed a practicing artist to spend a semester or a full year in residence at the school, with full professor privileges. A…

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Così fan tutte Valentine's

The opera will be sung in Italian as originally written with English supertitles displayed on a screen above the stage. A treat for you and your Valentine, no doubt. Congratulations to our students and professor Burchinal for continuing the fine tradition of bringing outstanding opera theatre to campus. 
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