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Last updated: September 1, 2010

Message from the Dean

Local Events

NEXT AGO MEETING
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
9:00 a.m. – 12 noon

A MORNING OF WORKSHOPS FOR THE CHURCH MUSICIAN

First United Methodist Church
420 N. Nevada Ave, Colorado Springs

8:30 - 9:00 Registration and refreshments
9:00 - 9:50 Session 1
A. Easy/moderate organ music, with an annotated list/music sources
B. Accessible music for small choirs/choir warm-ups
C. 10 easy ways to improve your handbell choir
10-10:50 Session 2
D. Practical Organ Technique
E. Improving the sound of your church choir
F. Clergy/Musician relationships
11-11:50 Session 3
G. Ingredients of good hymn playing/creative hymn playing
H. Working with children’s choirs
I. The amazing resources of the AGO

COLORADO SPRINGS EVENTS
September 12 (Sunday), 3 pm: TAYLOR MEMORIAL CONCERTS—Jürgen Essl Organ Recital. Grace & St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 601 N. Tejon, Colorado Springs. One of the foremost organists and composers in today’s European musical scene and a Professor at the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik (GER), Mr. Essl performs on the historic Taylor Memorial Pipe Organ. The concert will include standard organ literature by Bach, Schumann and Franck, compositions by Ofer Ben-Amots (Professor of Composition, Colorado College) and improvisations on submitted themes.

September 12 (Sunday), 5 pm: SACRED CONCERT SERIES—Stephen Nielson and Ovid Young, International Steinway Artists. First United Methodist Church, 420 N. Nevada, Colorado Springs. TICKETS: $15-$25; students $5. Order at www.fumc-cs.org.

September 19 (Sunday), 3 pm: HEIDI BASARAB, Piano. First Christian Church, 16 E. Platte Ave (at Cascade), Colorado Springs. Ms. Basarab, the 2nd place winner of the 2009 Rocky Mountain Amateur Pianists Competition, will perform a partita by J.S. Bach, a fantasy and sonata by Mozart, and a sonata by Beethoven. Reception follows the concert.

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October 9 (Saturday), 7pm: CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF THE SPRINGS—Season Premiere. Broadmoor Community Church, 315 Lake Ave, Colorado Springs. TICKETS: $20 adult, $15 senior (60 and older), $5 student. Program includes Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 73 in D major “La chasse,” Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major (with Kelly Zuercher, piano), and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F major, op. 93. 6:15 pm pre-concert lecture by Herbert Beattie.

October 10 (Sunday), 2:30 pm: CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF THE SPRINGS—Season Premiere. First Christian Church, 16 E. Platte Ave (at Cascade), Colorado Springs. TICKETS: $20 adult, $15 senior (60 and older), $5 student. See Saturday, October 9 for program information. 1:45 pm pre-concert lecture by Herbert Beattie.

DENVER EVENTS
September 11 (Saturday), 7:30 pm: AUGUSTANA ARTS—Richard Glazier: From Gershwin to Garland. Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave, Denver. TICKETS: $20 Adult/$12 Senior/$12 Student. Back by popular demand, award-winning pianist and master story teller Richard Glazier is considered one of America’s foremost authorities on the American popular song. Not only does he bring audiences the music of the Golden Age, but a fascinating commentary about the composers of the era as well. Throughout his performance, Glazier enchantingly brings back fond memories of Judy Garland and George and Ira Gershwin. It will be an exciting glimpse of our musical heritage.

September 17 (Friday), 7:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC—Richard Robertson, organist. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. Richard Robertson studied organ at Drake University, Simpson College, The Manhattan School of Music, and Westminster Choir College. In 1986, he was a national finalist in the AGO National young Artist Competition. Richard has held church positions in New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Clearwater, Florida; and in Denver at Holy Ghost Catholic Church. Richard is currently the Assistant Music Director and Organist at Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Denver. This recital will include works by J. S. Bach, Hendrik Andriessen, Max Reger and Louis Vierne.

September 19 (Sunday), 3 pm: LAMONT SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT SERIES— Jürgen Essl Organ Recital. Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave, Denver. TICKETS: $18 and $16. $10 for AGO members (Newman Center Box Office has a list of current AGO members). Newman Center Box Office (303) 871-7720. Including works by J. S. Bach, Schumann, Ofer Ben-Amots (Professor of Composition, Colorado College), and Jürgen Essl. Reception follows the concert.

September 19 (Sunday), 3:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC—Evensong. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. Music by William Byrd, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Heinrich Isaac and Peter Philips.

September 26 (Sunday), 3 pm: AUGUSTANA ARTS—The Playground: New Bach. Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave, Denver. TICKETS: $18 Adult/$12 Senior/$12 Student. The Playground Ensemble, Artists-in-Residence at DU’s Lamont School of Music, is a force for new music in the Rocky Mountain region. This unique musical ensemble will be presenting a magical afternoon of Johann Sebsatian Bach, history’s most inspired and inspiring composer!

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October 1 (Friday), 7:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC—St. Martin’s Chamber Choir: Brahms’s “Requiem.” St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. TICKETS: $22 general admission, $5 students, $30 premium seating (limited availability). For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.StMartinsChamberChoir.org or call 303-298-1970. St. Martin’s presents Johannes Brahms’s own rarely-heard four-hand piano chamber arrangement of his beloved German Requiem, along with several of Brahms’ a cappella motets.

October 3 (Sunday), 4 pm: AUGUSTANA ARTS—Olivier Latry: A French Extravaganza. Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave, Denver. TICKETS: $18 Adult/$12 Senior/$12 Student. A collaboration between Augustana Arts, American Guild of Organists – Denver Chapter and Alliance Française de Denver. This is more than a concert . . . it is a musical, educational and social experience! Olivier Latry, titular organist of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, is one of the world’s most distinguished organists; not only in France, but in the international community. Latry is an ambassador of seventeenth to twenty-first century French organ music, equally devoting his concert performances to the art of improvisation. Reception following the concert. 3 pm pre-concert lecture by Joseph Galema.

October 9 (Saturday), 7:30 pm: AUGUSTANA ARTS—Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra: The Spirit in Music. Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave, Denver. TICKETS: $18 Adult/$12 Senior/$12 Student. David Rutherford, Music Director. Essense – Spirit – Soul. This music is dedicated to seeking out and magnifying the nature and substance of a person, a place, a time, an experience, and faith. Music is unique in its immediate expression and qualities in our lives that defy language. In this season-opening performance of Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, it is our own essence, spirit and soul that we hear in the music of J. S. Bach, Gabriel Fauré, Michael Torke and Joseph Haydn.

October 10 (Sunday), 3 pm: AUGUSTANA ARTS—Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra: The Spirit In Music. Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave, Denver. TICKETS: $18 Adult/$12 Senior/$12 Student. David Rutherford, Music Director. See Saturday, October 9 for program information.

October 12 (Tuesday), Noon: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC—Opus 5 Woodwind Quintet. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver.

October 17 (Sunday), 3:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC—Evensong. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. Music by Philip Moore, Charles V. Stanford, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, and Peter Philips.

October 22 (Friday), 7:30 pm: AUGUSTANA ARTS—University of Northern Colorado Choir: An Evening of The Sacred and Profane. Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave, Denver. TICKETS: $18 Adult/$12 Senior/$12 Student. The University of Northern Colorado’s premier choral ensemble, the Concert Choir, presents a performance of choral works balanced between the glorious sacred music of the Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran traditions and the “profane” – that which is secular rather than religious. The second half will include shorter works devoted to themes of love, country, life, and the human emotion.

October 22 (Friday), 7:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC—The Monteverdi Soloists: Virtuosic Music of the Early Baroque. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. TICKETS: Please visit www.earlymusiccolorado.org or call 303-442-3770 x139. Virtuosic singers and period instrument players perform Italian music of the early 1600s, including Frescobaldi canzonas, Castello sonatas, Monteverdi madrigals, and works by Cima and Cesare. An ensemble of renowned early music specialists from the Netherlands and the East and West coasts, The Monteverdi Soloists include Amanda Balestrieri (soprano), Marjorie Bunday (mezzo-soprano), Daniel Hutchings (tenor), Robert Gardner (baritone), Mimi Mitchell (Baroque violin), James Miller (cornetto), and Michael Holmes (sackbutt). This concert is a prelude to Colorado’s only scheduled performance of the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 in Denver and Boulder.

October 29 (Friday), 7:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC—Lyn Loewi, organist. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. Organist Lyn Loewi, assisted by soprano Abbi Chapman and violinist Paul Miller, will give a recital including works by Bach, Vierne and others. Loewi earned a DMA from Stanford University and a First Prize in Organ from the French National Conservatory. Lyn is a regular volunteer organist at Saint John’s.

REGION VI NEWS
From Jeff Verkuilen, AAGO, Region VI Education Coordinator

If you plan well in advance, consider attending these national conventions (they have big shoes to fill after this year’s Twin Cities’ wonderful convention!):
•AGO 2012 National Convention, Nashville (TN), July 1-6
•AGO 2014 National Convention, Salt Lake City (UT), dates to be determined

Finally, congratulations are in order to the Central Iowa Chapter for agreeing to host Region VI’s 2011 Convention in Des Moines!

Membership

You don't have to be an active organist or choirmaster to join the Guild. In fact, you don't have to be a professional church musician at all. Membership in the Guild is open to all, and the only real requirement is an interest in the organ and/or sacred choral music. To become a member of the Colorado Springs Chapter, contact any Chapter officer. See below for contact information.

Placement

VISTA GRANDE BAPTIST CHURCH
5680 Stetson Hills Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80917
719-598-2139
email: jay.hill@vgbc.org
Web: www.vgbc.org
Organist.
A cover letter and resume may be sent to the attention of Jay W. Hill, Minister of Music, at the street address or email address above.

Employers and job seekers are invited to post and search listings of available positions on the Guild's National Website.

Certification

Contact Us

Dean: Deke Polifka, CAGO - deke.polifka@gmail.com

Sub-Dean: Carolyn Steele, AAGO - danolyn@q.com

Secretary: Phyllis Kester - pkester7@msn.com

Treasurer, CLARION editor and Membership Coordinator: Joseph Galema, DMA - joegalema@aol.com

Board Members:
Gerald Van Dusseldorp - gvandusseldorp@v7pc.org
Linda Cummings - AllegroMus@gmail.com
Sue Anselmi - Sue.Anselmi@gmail.com

Visit the AGO National website