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SEASON 2023-24
From its rich beginnings in the early 70’s as the Pamoja Singers, the University of Georgia African American Choral Ensemble (AACE) has endeavored to keep concert halls and churches filled with the powerful sounds and wealth of indigenous musical treasures birthed from the African American experience. Since its inception at UGA, AACE has been a beacon tower of fellowship and friendship for the university community. Herein, people of many cultures come to share and learn the messages of hope, love, and liberation that have sustained a people and this nation. African American Choral Ensemble concerts are free. No tickets are required.
Fall Concert
TUES 11/21
7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Concert Hall
Onnection Series
Spring Concert
THURS 4/18
7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Concert Hall
Onnection Series
Join us right before Thanksgiving for a concert of spirituals, hymn tunes, and gospel music by African American composers. Gather together with AACE as we honor all that we are thankful for in our lives.
Our spring concert gives us an opportunity to highlight some of our graduating students and continue to lift up the messages in the music. This concert we are inviting alumni of AACE to join us in celebrating UGA Associate Professor of Music Gregory S. Broughton’s thirty-five years as Director of the African American Choral Ensemble.
&MACHINATIONS
“MYTHOS & MACHINATIONS: A Night of Fine Opera”
Join the UGA Opera Theatre as we celebrate the mythos and machinations conjured by some of opera’s most riveting and powerful moments. This evening of familiar favorites and lesser-known works features the dramatic and vocal skills of our opera and vocal performance students in collaboration with the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra. Explore a rich collection of characters that run the gamut of the human experience. This is one night at the opera that should not be missed.
The Tragedy of Carmen
You think you know Carmen, but have you heard the whole story? This Tony-award winning innovative reconceptualization of Bizet’s opera dives deeper into the physiological and moral aspects of the Mérimée novella that Bizet’s Carmen is based. Devised by eminent director Peter Brook in 1983, The Tragedy of Carmen provides an electrifying theatrical experience, deepening every opera lover’s perception of a woman we think we know juxtaposed against all the great tunes and musical moments from Bizet’s Carmen that we all know and love. Does fate control us? Do we have opportunities to break away and forge new paths, even if that path leads to violence or death? Join us in discovering this exciting story reimagined. Rights pending.
