Mark Mobley
Mark Mobley became director of marketing and communications for the UGA Performing Arts Center after teaching for three years in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. He is a veteran journalist and radio producer who worked for NPR in various capacities over 20 years. He won the Peabody Award as musical head of Performance Today, and the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music journalism while serving as music critic and feature writer at the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Three hundred years ago, J.S. Bach wrote some of his most inspired and moving music for a single small instrument: the solo violin.
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So much music begins with a heartbeat and a hum, a pulse and a drone. The Swedish duo Symbio is a unique combination of accordion and a hurdy-gurdy, a very old-fashioned hand cranked string instrument.
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Friday, September 19, UGA Presents the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Classic Center Theatre. Their program features Company B: Songs Sung by the Andrews Sisters.
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The UGA Performing Arts Center celebrates its 30th anniversary this season. UGA Presents, which brings international artists to Athens, opens September 11 at Hodgson Concert Hall with Tony-winning Broadway star Lea Salonga.
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Encore is an amiable Broadway/Hollywood mashup of vintage production values and modern casting, with guest performances by Melissa McCarthy, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Jamie Foxx and more.
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Watch the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir perform an extended piece derived from an ancient canon of repentance. Unfolding as a long prayer, the music is rich, multilayered and mesmerizing.