AGO San Diego

Monday, 8/10 Organ Concert

Organ Concert at Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park - Monday, August 10, 7:30 pm.
Ray Cornils will play works of Bach, Mendelssohn, Parker, Handel, Franck, Faulkes, Penkuhn, Bedard, and Greer. Cornils is the "other Civic Organist" in the United States - he is the Civic Organist for Portland, Maine.  He is also a church organist and teachers at Bowdoin College and the University of Southern Maine.

From our November event

I received this photo from Manuel Rosales, showing Chelsea Chen performing at Disney Concert Hall in November 2008.  A fabulous performance - and Chelsea was introduced to the organ at our first POE in 1997.

adding photos

You'll see some photos from our installation of officers in June 2008 in the left sidebar - click on the first one to see all of them.  To add a photo in your post, use the "insert image" button (fifth from the right  in the second row).
Thanks for asking about this Dan, it was educational!  :)

AGO is a small world!

One of the best things about AGO is the people you get to know and network with.  Imagine my surprise when the music arrived for  "Jesus, Prince and Savior" by Larry Shackley and Timothy Dudley-Smith to find that it's dedicated to Dean Billmeyer, AGO Regional Councillor for one of those regions in the east (I admit it, I can never keep them straight!).  I'm off next week to Yale for the organ pedagogy conference - if you've never been, it's NOT just for organ teachers - the first year I went the main focus was Buxtehude, last time was organ music "nach Bach", this time it's on teaching service-playing.  The workshops, lectures, concerts are all very focused on whatever the topic of the conference is and I always learn a lot.  If only they would have it somewhere warmer - projected temperatures in New Haven for March are 20-40 degrees!

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Since Lent is almost upon us, our first topic will be music for Holy Week. Do you have a favorite organ piece or choir anthem that you use every year?  Is there something new that you're excited about using this year?  Does your congregation have a unique worship tradition during Holy Week that you can share with the rest of us?

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