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Central North Carolina Chapter |
| Last updated: August 31, 2010 |
Message from the Dean |
| Welcome back! I'm sure that many of you will be using and hearing this phrase time and time again in the coming month as winter activities commence from summer recess. It is a pleasure to also get our Chapter programming season underway again. Our first program for this coming programming year will be held on Monday evening, 13 September 2010 at 7.30 P.M. The core of the meeting will be a wonderful presentation by Andrew Scanlon from ECU on "Anthems for Small Choirs: SAB and smaller" at Highland UMC, Raleigh. We all owe Marcia Nance a word of thanks for hosting this meeting. This meeting will include social time and hors d'oeuvres during which all attendees will have an opportunity to share their summer church music activities with all participants. This should prove to be a most interesting and relevant meeting! I hope that you will attend and share some more entertaining snippets of organ delights!
I am also pleased to announce that one of our members who is a full-time web designer has come up with some plans for our Chapter web-presence. Fortunately, there are a myriad of free hosting opportunities for non-profit organizations that I was not aware of before. It is possible that dues payment and other services could be offered through an updated webpage, free of charge to the Chapter and to our members. I am most interested in receiving your ideas for the contents of this webpage. Please submit your ideas to me as soon as you are able, particularly ideas concerning more convenient dues collection and the availability of the Newsletter in paper and electronic formats. There is no sense in moving forward on this plan if our members do not wish to use the services offered! See you on the 13th! All best, Tom |
Local Events |
| Saturday, September 11, 2010, 7:00 P.M. – Marilyn Mason, First United Methodist Church, 100 S. Church St., Rocky Mount
Monday, September 13, 2010, 7:30 P.M. – Anthems for Small Choirs, Highland United Methodist Church, 1901 Ridge Road, Raleigh. Presented by Andrew Scanlon, MM, ECU organ faculty and Director of Music, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Greenville. Packets of choral music will be distributed by Burrage Music for optional purchase. (September AGO Meeting) Sunday, September 19, 2010, 2:30 & 5:00 P.M. – David Arcus, Goodson Chapel, Duke University, Durham Sunday, September 19, 2010, 4:00 P.M. -- A la Mode française, Music of Boëllmann, Couperin, Vierne, Messiaen, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Poulenc, & Francaix. Roger Petrich, Organist Assisted by Beth Evans, Laura Makay-Gondek, Aileen Sutter and Stephanie McElhinny. St Thomas More Church, 940 Carmichael St., Chapel Hill Tuesday, September 28, 2010 (no time given) --Dr. Walter Hilse, University United Methodist Church, 150 East Franklin St., Chapel Hill. Dr. Hilse is from the Manhattan School of Music. Monday, October 11, 2010, 7:30 P.M. - Dr. Gregory Hand, Sacred Heart Cathedral, 200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh Sunday, October 17, 2010, 3:00 P.M. - Recital Honoring Dr. David Lynch's Retirement from Meredith College, Jones Chapel, Meredith College, Raleigh. Performers include Janet Cherry, Tom Lohr, Brock Downward, David Arcus, Sue Crocker, Jenny Vance, Jane Morgan Nixon. Sunday, October 24, 2010, 4.00 P. M. -- A Moravian Singstnde (hymn festival), Raleigh Moravian Church, 1816 Ridge Road, Raleigh. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the death of Count Nicolaus von Zinzensdorf, led by Dr. Nola Knouse, head of the Moravian Music Foundation (October AGO Meeting) Friday, October 29, 2010, 7:30 P.M. – Walt Stroney accompanying The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney, St. Frances United Methodist Church, 2965 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary. Free, but donations will be received for the youth Appalachian Service Project mission trip. Wuneday, October 31, 2010, 5:00 P.M. – David Briggs, Duke University Chapel, Durham Sunday, November 7, 2010, 2:00 A.M. - Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday, November 7, 2010, 4:00 P.M. – Vespers Concert, Goodson Chapel, Duke University, Durham. Bach Cantata 140 and Schütz Musikalische Exequien Sunday, November 7, 2010, 5.00 P.M. – Members’ Recital, Jones Chapel, Meredith College, Raleigh. Featuring the 2010 Cooper-Miller Organ Scholarship recipients. (November AGO Meeting) Sunday, November 14, 2010, 5:00 P.M. – Christopher Anderson, Duke University Chapel, Durham Sunday, December 5, 2010, 4.00 P.M. -- Paul Jacobs, Hayes-Barton United Methodist Church, 2209 Fairview Road, Raleigh. Buzard organ dedication recital (December AGO Meeting) Saturday, January 22, 2011, 10:00 A.M. - Organ crawl to Rocky Mount, N.C. Organs by Richard & Fawkes, Goulding & Wood and Harrison & Harrison. (January AGO Meeting) Sunday, January 30, 2011, 5:00 P.M. – David Arcus, Duke University Chapel, Durham Monday, February 14, 2011, 7:30 P.M. – Dr. Thomas Fielding, Sacred Heart Cathedral, 200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh Sunday, February 20, 2011, 5:00 P.M. – James Moeser, Duke University Chapel, Durham Monday, February 21, 2011, 7.30 P.M. - Lights ... Camera ... Action! An Evening of Theater Organ Magic! Home of Frank Dunhuber, 7333 Thompson Mill Road, Wake Forest. A demonstration and examination of the three-manual Wurlitzer virtual organ (February AGO Meeting) Saturday, March 12, 2011 - Capital Area Choral Music Festival, Edenton Street United Methodist Church, 228 West Edenton St., Raleigh. Led by Dr. James Kallembach, Director of Choirs, University of Chicago. (March AGO Meeting) Sunday, March 13, 2011, 2:00 A.M. – Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday, March 20, 2011, 5:00 P.M. – Robert Parkins, Duke University Chapel, Durham Sunday, April 3, 2011, 4:0 P.M. – Mendelssohn: St. Paul, Duke University Chapel, Durham (tickets: www.tickets.duke.edu) |
Newsletter |
| September 13 Meeting News
The opening meeting for the 2010-2011 season of the Central North Carolina Chapter will be on Monday, September 13, 2010, at 7:30 P.M. at Highland United Methodist Church. 1901 Ridge Road, Raleigh. There will be a presentation of anthems for small choirs, SAB and smaller, by Andrew Scanlon, FAGO. Burrage Music Company is preparing packets of music for the presentation, and they will also be available for purchase at the meeting at $35 each. Refreshments will be available following the presentation, and members will have an opportunity to share their summer stories Mr. Scanlon is the Organist-Choirmaster at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church and Instructor of Organ and Sacred Music at East Carolina University, Greenville. He came to Greenville in 2009, after leaving a similar situation in Pittsburgh, where, since 2005, he served as a member of the organ faculty at Duquesne University, director of music at First Presbyterian Church, and conductor of the Pittsburgh Compline Choir. He formerly held positions at St. Paul’s Cathedral (Buffalo), Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, New York City, and Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School. He earned the Bachelor of Music degree from Duquesne University and the Master of Music degree from Yale University, where his teachers were Ann Labounsky and Thomas Murray, respectively. Additional study has been under John Skelton, John Walker, and David Craighead. As a recitalist, Mr. Scanlon maintains a busy concert schedule, performing throughout the United States as well as in Canada and Europe, including appearances at National Conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society. He has performed concerts at some of the world’s most significant religious venues including St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York, Notre-Dame Cathedral, The American Cathedral and La Trinité Church, Paris, as well as other destinations in France, Italy, England and Croatia. Mr. Scanlon has been broadcast on NPR's nationally syndicated radio program Pipedreams as well as on WQED-FM in Pittsburgh, WBFO and WNED in Buffalo, and WCRB-FM in Boston, and he is featured on the recently released OHS recording: Historic Organs of Boston. In 2001, Andrew Scanlon was awarded Duquesne’s André Marchal Prize for Excellence in Performance. Andrew has also won top prizes in several playing competitions, including first prizes in the 2002 West Chester Organ Competition, and the 1999 Boston Chapter AGO Competition. Actively involved in the American Guild of Organists, Andrew holds the Fellowship diploma (FAGO) and serves on the National Board of Examiners in Professional Certification. - - - - - - David Lynch Honored in Retirement Recital Dr. W. David Lynch, who retired from Meredith College August 1, will be honored in an organ recital at Jones Chapel, Meredith College, Raleigh, on Sunday, October 17 at 3:00 P.M. A mixed program will include former students, colleagues, and friends. Janet Cherry, Tom Lohr, Brock Downward, David Arcus, Sue Crocker, Jenny Vance and Jane Morgan Nixon are among announced participants. - - - - - - A movie classic, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), starring Lon Chaney, accompanied by organ virtuoso Walt Strony will be presented at St. Francis United Methodist Church, 2965 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary, on Friday, October 29, 2010 at 7:30 P.M. in the church sanctuary Long before there was surround-sound there were theatre organs. Come experience a night out at "the picture show" the way your grandparents did. This family-friendly fall event is presented by the St. Francis Music Ministry for the benefit of the Appalachia Service Project (ASP). World-renowned organist Walt Strony will improvise an original score to this classic silent film from the early Golden Age of Hollywood. Audience costumes are encouraged . A concession-stand reception to greet the artist will be held in the MPR after the show. See you at the movies! Admission is free but a donation will be collected toward the annual Appalachia Service Project, the annual youth mission trip. For additional information, see www.saintfrancisumc.org, or call 919-362-1666 ext. 221 - - - - - - Here's an update on Andrew Yeargin, a former Raleigh organ student of Dr. William Weisser, who gave several recitals at Edenton Street United Methodist Church. In May 2009, former Central N.C. Chapter member Andrew H. Yeargin received the Master of Music degree with distinction from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he studied under McNeil Robinson. Andrew was the organist for the commencement exercises, held at New York's Riverside Church, where he gave a short recital before the ceremony. Andrew previously completed undergraduate studies in 2007 at Westminster Choir College. While at the Manhattan School of Music, he had the honor of being appointed Organ Scholar at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York and won several competitions, including the 2007 AGO Regional Competition for Young Organists, the West Chester University International Organ Competition and the Naples Soli Deo Gloria Festival of the Arts Organ Competition. Andrew traveled to France to participate in the Summer 2009 Institute for French Organ Studies under Dr. Jesse Eschbach thanks to a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation (New York, N.Y.) and the Bedient Organ Company (Lincoln, Neb.). He performed on several historic instruments such as the recently-restored magnum opus of Dom Bedos (ca. 1785) at the Église Abbatiale de Ste-Croix in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, and the magnificent Cavaillé-Coll of the Église Notre-Dame in Épernay, Champagne-Ardenne. Currently, Andrew is serving as Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Church (Episcopal) in Manhasset––located in Nassau County, Long Island–– overseeing two choirs of professional and amateur adults as well as girl and boy choristers. Andrew recently traveled to the U.K., as he had been selected to compete as a last-round finalist for the coveted Organ Scholar position at the Cathedral of St. Peter in York, England, better known as "York Minster." In addition to regular duties at Christ Church, he continues to perform as a recitalist, accompanist and professional choral singer in the greater New York area, collaborating frequently with the St. George's Choral Society under artistic director Matthew Lewis and assisting as supply organist and cantor at the Church of the Holy Trinity (Roman Catholic) on Manhattan's Upper West Side under his former teacher, McNeil Robinson. Andrew currently lives in New York and hopes to return to school soon to begin doctoral work. |
Membership |
| For membership information, email your name and postal address to cnccago@bellsouth.net, call Kenneth Kerr at 919-851-1655, or mail a request to Central North Carolina Chapter, P. O. Box 2512, Raleigh, N.C. 27602-2512.
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Placement |
| Employment opportunities are listed in the monthly C.N.C.C. Newsletter which is mailed to all chapter members.
A list of substitute organists, prepared from the roster information submitted by our members each year, is available upon request. Send an email to cnccago@bellsouth.net to receive the list. Employers and job seekers are invited to post and search listings of available positions on the Guild's National Website. |
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Contact Us |
| CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER
AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS (The oldest Chapter in the Carolinas - Chartered November 23, 1922) P. O. Box 2512 Raleigh, N.C. 27602 CHAPTER OFFICERS Dean: Dr. Tom Fielding, 5556 Grand Traverse Dr., Raleigh, N.C. 27604 (cell) 919-809-3111 (email) tjf47401@hotmail.com Professional Concerns & Professional Development Coordinator Sub Dean: H. Jeff Hammack. 7243 Aquinas Ave., Raleigh, N.C. 27617 (H) 919-741-7334 (W) 919-788-6321 (email) jhammack3@nc.rr.com Program Chairman Secretary: David K. Witt, 1543 Carr St., Raleigh, N.C. 27608 (H) 919-833-2490 (email) dkw@mindspring.com TAO Correspondent Treasurer: Kenneth H. Kerr, P. O. Box 2512, Raleigh, N.C. 27602 (H) 919-851-1655 (e-mail) KennethKerr@bellsouth.net Membership status, new member applications and inquiries, substitute organists, web page editor, Newsletter Editor Historian: Noël Hamm, 1001 Beringer Place, Apex, N.C. 27502 (H) 919-362-9226 (email) noel2bach@yahoo.com Scholarship Committee Chair: Lorraine M. Magnuson, 8825 O‘Neal Road, Raleigh, N.C. 27613 (H) 919-870-6942 (email) raineymag@nc.rr.com |
Links |
| Dean Tom Fielding's web page - www.thomasfielding.com
Pipedreams: http://www.pipedreams.org/ Organ Historical Society: http://www.organsociety.com/ The Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America: http://www.apoba.com/ Encyclopedia of Organ Stops: http://www.organstops.org/ Organ Clearing House: http://www.organclearinghouse.com/ The American Institute of Organbuilders: http://www.pipeorgan.org/ American Theatre Organ Society: http://www.atos.org/ |
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