This is part of a series of monthly articles about people who support the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center.

Meet Cecil and Sandy Hudson. They are native Georgians and longtime Athenians. Cecil is a retired psychiatrist. Sandy is a retired book designer and production manager. This season they are supporting the April appearance by the Danish String Quartet.

Cecil and I have been season subscribers since the Performing Arts Center opened in 1995. The numerous and varied concerts that we have attended in the Hugh Hodgson and Ramsey Concert Halls have given us much pleasure and deeply enriched our cultural and spiritual lives.

These days the world’s music and the world’s best musicians can be heard in our homes and in our automobiles, even on beaches or city sidewalks, anytime day or night, on a tiny cell phone. That is an amazing gift, but attending live concerts, hearing music in the moment, as it is being made, is a multi-sensory experience with special joys and rewards. Magic can, and, often does, happen.

There are so many good reasons for supporting the PAC. If you are moved by the music you hear while encompassed in a beautiful public space with great acoustics, if you enjoy seeing the most accomplished musicians in the world performing on their glorious instruments, if you thrive on sharing this multi-sensory experience with friends and neighbors — well, in short, if live music and performance feed your spirits as they do ours, then we know you will continue to support the PAC with your purchase of tickets.

If you are also able to contribute to one of the funds that support the excellent missions of the PAC, we trust you will do so. It’s a win-win for you, your city, your friends and neighbors, your/our children, and the musicians and composers you deeply admire or love. We need culture, especially music, to remind us of our shared values and humanity and to sustain us in our increasingly challenging and fragmented world.

Thanks, UGA PAC!

Learn how you can support the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center here.

Photo: Mark Mobley