THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA HODGSON SINGERS

DIRECTOR: DANIEL BARA

The international award-winning UGA Hodgson Singers serves as the premiere, ambassadorial choral ensemble of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. Comprised of mostly undergraduate music majors at the University of Georgia and conducted by Dr. Daniel Bara, the John D. Boyd UGA Foundation Professor of Choral Music, the choir has performed by invitation in recent years for the American Choral Directors Association Southern Division Convention (2014, 2018), Georgia Music Educators Association (2011, 2017), and in concert with Kathleen Battle, The Knights Chamber Orchestra, The Kings Singers, with whom it co-commissioned a choral work by Nico Muhly that had its North American premiere in Hodgson Hall in January 2018, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, the acclaimed professional British choir, Tenebrae. In February 2020 the choir was featured in concert with Andrew Bocelli and the Atlanta Symphony. In 2014 it was the Grand Prix winner at The International Choral Competition Ave Verum in Baden, Austria. The Hodgson Singers released its first internationally distributed recording, Grace Immaculate: Prayers and Love Songs, on the Gothic Records label in June 2017.

Sowing and Reaping

Whatever is Foreseen in Joy...........................................................................................Andrew Maxfield

Die mit Tränen säen...........................................................................................................Heinrich Schütz

Lament and Despair

I’ve Been in the Storm So Long........................................................................................arr. Jeffrey Ames

Lament for Pasiphaë from Mid-Winter Songs..................................................................Morten Lauridsen

Eli, Eli, Lama Sabactani?....................................................................................................Ernesto Herrera

Love and Faith

Mama Said.................................................................................................Ruthie Foster, arr. Paul Rardin

I’ll Fly Away......................................................................................Albert Brumley, arr. Shawn Kirchner