Moses George Hogan (March 13, 1957 - February 11, 2003) was an African-American composer and arranger of choral music. Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Events 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa For the musical composition see Chorale. A choir, chorale, or chorus is a Musical ensemble of Singers He was best known for his very popular and accessible settings of spirituals. Spirituals (or Negro spirituals) are songs which were created by African slaves in America. Hogan was a pianist, conductor and arranger of international renown. His works are highly celebrated and performed by high school, college, church, community, and professional choirs across the globe today. He died at the age of 45 of a brain tumour, and his survivors include his father and mother, a brother and four sisters.
Education
Moses Hogan was a graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts ,(NOCCA) and Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio. New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, or NOCCA | Riverfront, is a professional arts training center for secondary school -age children The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, located in Oberlin Ohio, was founded in 1865 and is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States He also studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and New York's Juilliard School of Music. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, Coeducational The Juilliard School, located in New York City, is a world renowned Performing arts conservatory.
Achievements
- Founder and conductor of The Moses Hogan Chorale.
- 1st place in the 28th annual "Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition" in New York.
- Appointed artist in residence at Loyola University in New Orleans in 1993. Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities allow visiting artists to stay and work 'for art's sake'
- Arranged and performed several compositions for the 1995 PBS documentary The American Promise. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the
- Recorded and conducted several arrangements with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a 360 member all-volunteer Choir.
- Critically acclaimed by the New York Times and Gramophone Magazine. Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London by Haymarket devoted to classical music and particularly recordings of classical
- Member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, Inc. Phi Mu Alpha (ΦΜΑ Sinfonia is a collegiate social fraternity for men with an interest in music
Arrangements
Over seventy published works
- Abide With Me
- Ain'a That Good News
- Amen
- Any How
- A Spiritual Reflection
- Basin Street Blues
- The Battle of Jericho
- Cert'nly Lawd
- Climbin' Up the Mountain
- Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord
- De Blin' Man Stood on De Road an' Cried
- Deep River
- Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
- Do Lord, Remember Me
- Done Made My Vow to the Lord
- Don't You Mourn
- Down by the Riverside
- Elijah Rock
- Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit
- Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
- Fix Me, Jesus
- Give Me Jesus
- Glory, Glory, Glory to the Newborn King
- Go Down Moses
- God's Gonna Set This World on Fire
- Good News, The Chariot's Comin'
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Great Day
- Hear My Prayer
- He Never Said A Mumblin' Word
- He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
- His Light Still Shines
- Hold On!
- Hold Out Your Light
- I Am His Child
- I Can Tell the World
- I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
- I Got a Home In-A Dat Rock
- I Got a Robe
- I Have a Dream
- I Know The Lord's Laid His Hands On Me
- I'm Gonna Sing 'Till the Spirit Moves in My Heart
- I'll Make The Difference
- I Stood on the River of Jordan
- I Surrender All
- I Want God's Heaven To Be Mine
- I Want Jesus To Walk With Me
- I Want To Be Ready
- I Want To Thank You, Lord
- Jesus Lay Your Head in the Window
- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
- Let the Heaven Light Shine On Me
- Let us Break Bread Together
- Lift Every Voice for Freedom
- Like a Mighty Stream
- Lily of the Valley
- Little David, Play On Your Harp
- Lord, I Want To Be A Christian
- Mister Banjo
- Music Down in My Soul
- My God Is So High
- My Good Lord's Done Been Here
- My Lord, What a Morning
- My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord
- No Hidin' Place
- Oh Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn
- Old Time Religion
- O Magnify the Lord
- Only What You Do For Christ Will Last
- Plenty Good Room
- Ride On, King Jesus
- Ride The Chariot
- Rise An' Shine
- Somebody's Knockin' at Yo' Door
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- Soon-Ah Will Be Done
- Stand By Me
- Standing in the Need of Prayer
- Steal Away
- Surely He Died on Cavalry
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- There is a Balm in Gilead
- There's a Man Goin' Around
- This is My Country
- This Little Light of Mine
- Trashin' the Camp
- Two Hymn Settings
- Wade in the Water
- Walk Together Chidren
- We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace
- Were You There?
- Who Built the Ark?
- Witness
- You Better Min' How You Talk
Discography
- Voices - soundtrack to the 1995 PBS documentary, An American Promise
- The Moses Hogan Choral Series 2003: This Little Light of Mine
- Give Me Jesus - performed by the Moses Hogan Singers/produced EMI Virgin Records
- An American Heritage of Spirituals - performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir/conducted by Albert McNeil and Moses Hogan
- Deep River
- The Moses Hogan Choral Series 2002
- Lift Every Voice for Freedom, a collection of American folk songs, poems, hymns, songs of faith and patriotic songs
Songbooks
- Feel the Spirit Vol. " Abide with Me " is a Christian Hymn written by Henry Francis Lyte in 1847 while he lay dying from Tuberculosis; he survived only a " Basin Street Blues " is a Song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands written by Spencer Williams. An anonymous spiritual of African American origin It has been sung in several films including the 1929 film version of Show Boat, although it was not used in the "Elijah Rock" is a traditional spiritual It bears some lyrical similarities to another Spiritual, " Mary Don't You Weep. " Go Tell It on the Mountain " is an African-American spiritual dating back to at least 1865 that has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers " He's Got the Whole World in His Hands " is a spiritual that made the popular song charts in a 1958 version by Laurie London, which "Mary Don't You Weep" (alternately titled "O Mary Don't You Weep", "Oh Mary Don't You Weep Don't You Mourn", or variations thereof " Swing Low Sweet Chariot " is an American Negro spiritual. "There Is A Balm in Gilead" is a Traditional United States African-American spiritual. " This Little Light of Mine " is a gospel Children's song written by Harry Dixon Loes (1895-1965 in about 1920 " Wade in the Water " ( Roud 5439 is the name of a Negro spiritual first published in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (1901 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a 360 member all-volunteer Choir. 1
- Feel the Spirit Vol. 2
- Oxford Book of Spirituals
- Aint That Good News
- The Deep River Collection
References and external links
Find A Grave is a Website allowing its users to access maintain and expand an online Database of Burial records
© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
network: | |