The 2018 AGO National Convention gets under way on July 2nd in Kansas City, Missouri.
This feature article in the KC Independent highlights many of the events that convention-goers will attend.
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The 2018 AGO National Convention gets under way on July 2nd in Kansas City, Missouri.
This feature article in the KC Independent highlights many of the events that convention-goers will attend.
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The Twin Cities AGO chapter presented two recitals as part of its Pipe Organ Encounter at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Monday, June 25, 2018 — 7:30 P.M. (CT) — Boe Memorial Chapel
Featuring “One Week” by Buster Keaton
Catherine Rodland, Organ
James Bobb, Organ
John Ferguson, Organ
Tuesday, June 26, 2018 — 7:30 P.M. (CT) — Studio A
Christopher Jacobson, Organ
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The American Guild of Organists is pleased to announce the release of Volume 2 in the AGO Monograph series: The Organ on Campus, by Haig Mardirosian.
Rather than a how-to guide, this might be called a why-to guide — an exploration of the motives, instincts, fortunes, and foibles of a community learning and teaching the sometimes-mysterious art of playing this complex and impressive instrument. Such an idiosyncratic narrative aims to assess the influence of the instrument on American college campuses, and in turn, on society and culture.
Volume 2 can be downloaded in PDF format from this page on the AGO website.
Volume 1, J. Michael Barone and Pipedreams: The Organ on Public Radio, can also be downloaded from the same page.
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Congratulations to the newly elected members of the 2018-2020 National Council and Board of Regional Councillors:
President:
Michael Bedford, DMA, AAGO, ChM
Vice President/Councillor for Competitions and New Music:
Eileen Hunt, DMA, AAGO
Secretary/Councillor for Communications:
Mary Stutz, BS
Treasurer/Councillor for Finance and Development:
Barbara Adler, DMA, SPC
Councillor for Conventions:
Michael Velting, DMA
Councillor for Education:
Don Cook, DMA, AAGO
Councillor for Membership:
David Lamb, DMus, CAGO
Councillor for the Northeast Region
Leslie Smith, BM, MM, CAGO
Councillor for the Mid-Atlantic Region
Wayne L. Wold, DMA, AAGO
Councillor for the Southeast Region
Sue Mitchell-Wallace, MM, FAGO
Councillor for the Great Lakes Region
Karl Bruhn, MA, MChM, SPC
Councillor for the North Central Region
Karen Black, DM
Councillor for the Southwest Region
Vicki Schaeffer, DMus
Councillor for the West Region
Matthew Burt, MA, MDiv, MS, SPC
All of the individuals named above will be installed at the AGO’s Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Mo. on July 4, 2018. Complete coverage of the election with vote tallies for all candidates will appear in the July 2018 issue of TAO.
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The American Guild of Organists (AGO) has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support educational programs and career development for organists, choral conductors, and composers in 2018, including the AGO National Convention in Kansas City, Mo., July 2–6. The Guild has received regular support from the NEA since 2005. The $25,000 “Art Works” grant matches the largest amount the arts endowment has ever given to the Guild.
“This grant covers the full breadth of the AGO’s educational activities for current and prospective members as well as our programs of outreach to the public,” stated AGO Executive Director James Thomashower. “The AGO promotes lifelong learning opportunities ranging from Pipe Organ Encounters for beginning youth and adults to a professional certification program for organists and choral conductors. Thousands of people will benefit from educational workshops and extraordinary performances of organ and choral music at the AGO National Convention in Kansas City.”
“It is energizing to see the impact that the arts are making throughout the United States. These NEA-supported projects, such as this one to the American Guild of Organists, are good examples of how the arts build stronger and more vibrant communities, improve well-being, prepare our children to succeed, and increase the quality of our lives,” said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. “At the National Endowment for the Arts, we believe that all people should have access to the joy, opportunities and connections the arts bring.”
“The NEA’s funding sends an uplifting message to the entire organ community: our instrument and its music are vitally important to the American people,” Thomashower added. “The award validates the AGO’s ongoing efforts to ensure that music for the organ is created by talented composers, performed by skilled musicians, and appreciated by the widest audience possible. It is an honor for the Guild to be recognized by the NEA, the most prestigious independent federal agency in the United States responsible for funding and promoting artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation.”
In February, the NEA announced that $25 million in grants will be awarded to nonprofit organizations in every state and across all artistic disciplines in 2018; $24 million of that is earmarked for Art Works, the NEA’s largest funding category. Art Works focuses on the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. The NEA will give 936 Art Works grants to organizations in 49 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico in 2018. By comparison, the NEA awarded 970 Art Works grants totaling nearly $26 million in 2017.
Established by Congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector, the NEA supports arts learning, affirms and celebrates America’s rich and diverse cultural heritage, and extends its work to promote equal access to the arts in every community across America.
For a complete listing of projects recommended for Art Works grant support, read the NEA’s full announcement here.
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The Carol Teti Memorial Organ Scholarship Committee at Indiana University of Pennsylvania invites you to the world premiere of Monument by Christopher LaRosa. Monument will be performed on the Porgorzelski-Yankee organ by Dr. James Kibbie, Professor and Chair of Organ and University Organist at the University of Michigan.
– in the DiCicco Hall, Room 121 Cogswell Hall on the IUP campus.
A discussion with the composer will precede the concert at 2:00 PM.
Update: A recording of the concert is available on YouTube
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