- Moses Hogan
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Moses George Hogan (March 13, 1957 - February 11, 2003) was an African-American composer and arranger of choral music. He was best known for his very popular and accessible settings of spirituals. 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 mother, a brother and four sisters. His interment was located at Mount Olivet Cemetery and Mausoleum.
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Education
Moses Hogan was a graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, (NOCCA) and Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio. He also studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and New York's Juilliard School of Music.
Achievements
- Founder and conductor of The Moses Hogan Chorale and The Moses Hogan Singers
- 1st place in the 28th annual "Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition" in New York.
- Appointed artist in residence at Loyola University New Orleans in 1993.
- Arranged and performed several compositions for the 1995 PBS documentary The American Promise.
- Recorded and conducted several arrangements with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
- Critically acclaimed by The New York Times and Gramophone Magazine.
- Member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, Inc.
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
- Mary Don't You Weep
- 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 Calvary
- 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 Children
- 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
- This Little Light of Mine: Moses Hogan Choral Series, 2003
Songbooks
- Feel the Spirit Vol. 1
- Feel the Spirit Vol. 2
- Oxford Book of Spirituals
- Aint That Good News
- The Deep River Collection
References and external links
Categories:- 1957 births
- 2003 deaths
- American composers
- Deaths from brain cancer
- Oberlin College alumni
- Cancer deaths in Louisiana
- Choral conductors
- African American composers
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