Moses George Hogan was an African-American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

 composer and arranger of choral

Choir

A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...

 music. He was best known for his very popular and accessible settings of spirituals

Spiritual (music)

Spirituals are religious songs which were created by enslaved African people in America.-Terminology and origin:...

. 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.

Education

Moses Hogan was a graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, or NOCCA, is a professional arts training center for secondary school-age children. NOCCA is located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school offers instruction in creative writing, dance, media arts, music, theatre arts, and visual arts, with a summer culinary...

, (NOCCA) and Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Oberlin Conservatory of Music

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, located on the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, was founded in 1865 and is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Students of Oberlin Conservatory enter a very broad network within the music world, as the school's alumni...

 in Ohio. He also studied at Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...

 in Baton Rouge and New York's Juilliard School of Music

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

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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
  Artist in residence
  Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities allow visiting artists to stay and work so that they may apply singular focus to their art practice....
  
   at Loyola University New Orleans
  Loyola University New Orleans
  Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational and Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola...
  
   in 1993.
• Arranged and performed several compositions for the 1995 PBS
  Public Broadcasting Service
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
  
   documentary The American Promise.
• Recorded and conducted several arrangements with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to...
  
  .
• Critically acclaimed by The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  and Gramophone Magazine.
• Member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
  Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
  Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is an American collegiate social fraternity for men with a special interest in music...
  
   Fraternity of America, Inc.

Arrangements

Over seventy published works

• Abide with Me
  Abide With Me
  The hymn tune most often used with this hymn is "Eventide" composed by William Henry Monk in 1861.Alternate tunes include:* "Abide with Me," Henry Lyte, 1847* "Morecambe", Frederick C...
  
  
• Ain'a That Good News
• Amen
• Any How
• A Spiritual Reflection
• Basin Street Blues
  Basin Street Blues
  "Basin Street Blues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams. The song was published in 1926 and made famous in a recording by Louis Armstrong in 1928...
  
  
• 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
  Deep River (song)
  "Deep River" is 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 original show...
  
  
• 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
  Elijah Rock
  "Elijah Rock" is a traditional spiritual. It bears some lyrical similarities to another spiritual, "Mary Don't You Weep."-Lyrics:"Elijah Rock" is a traditional spiritual. It bears some lyrical similarities to another spiritual, "Mary Don't You Weep."-Lyrics:"Elijah Rock" is a traditional spiritual...
  
  
• 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
  Go Tell It on the Mountain (song)
  "Go Tell It on the Mountain" is an African-American spiritual song, compiled by John Wesley Work, Jr., dating back to at least 1865, that has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers...
  
  
• Great Day
• Hear My Prayer
• He Never Said A Mumblin' Word
• He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
  He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
  "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" is a traditional American spiritual. It was first published in the paperbound hymnal Spirituals Triumphant, Old and New, in 1927. In 1933, it was collected by Frank Warner from the singing of Sue Thomas in North Carolina...
  
  
• 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
  Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
  "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" is a well-known negro spiritual.The song is believed to have been composed by slaves in the first half of the nineteenth century. Some references suggest that it was copyrighted by Jay Roberts in 1865...
  
  
• 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
  Mary Don't You Weep
  "Mary Don't You Weep" is a Negro spiritual that originates from before the American Civil War – thus it is what scholars call a "slave song," "a label that describes their origins among the enslaved," and it contains "coded messages of hope and resistance." It is...
  
  
• 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
  Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is a historic African-American spiritual. The first recording was in 1909, by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University....
  
  
• There is a Balm in Gilead
  There Is A Balm In Gilead
  "There Is A Balm in Gilead" is a traditional United States African American spiritual.-History:This is a well-known traditional Black-American spiritual. The “balm in Gilead” is a reference from the Old Testament, but the lyrics of this spiritual refer to the New Testament concept of salvation...
  
  
• There's a Man Goin' Around
• This is My Country
• This Little Light of Mine
  This Little Light of Mine
  "This Little Light of Mine" is a gospel children's song written by Harry Dixon Loes in about 1920. Loes, who studied at the Moody Bible Institute and the American Conservatory of Music, was a musical composer, and teacher, who wrote, and co-wrote, several other gospel songs. The song has since...
  
  
• Trashin' the Camp
• Two Hymn Settings
• Wade in the Water
  Wade in the water
  "Wade in the Water" is the name of an African-American spiritual first published in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers by John Wesley Work II and his brother, Frederick J...
  
  
• 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
  Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to...
  
  /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