DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Composers, individuals or collective?, including contributions from David Arditti, Halida Dinova, Robert McCarney and Jane Stanley.
ASK ALICE: Weekly, from 2003 until 2016/17, Alice McVeigh took on the role of classical music's agony aunt to answer questions on a surprising variety of subjects.
American arranger, choral conductor and pianist Moses George Hogan was born in New Orleans on 13 March 1957. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music, Louisiana State University, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and Oberlin College, and won the Kosciusko Foundation's Chopin Competition in New York.
He became famous for his arrangements of spirituals - over seventy of them were published by Hal Leonard. He edited the Oxford Book of Spirituals (September 2001, OUP), and he founded and led three choirs - the Moses Hogan Chorale, the Moses Hogan Singers and the New World Ensemble.
Moses Hogan died of a brain tumour in New Orleans on 11 February 2003, aged forty-five.