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 Updated  13 May 2008

 

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Program Series

The Los Angeles Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is pleased to present a number of concerts and educational events each season, centered around organ and choral music. Most of these events are open to the public, with free admission; we invite members and non-members alike to attend our public events. If you would like to receive e-mail notification of our public programs, sign up below.

Because all schedule information is subject to change, please check here for the latest details before each event. If you have questions about our programs, contact our sub-dean, Manuel Rosales. For education events, contact our education chair, Christoph Bull.

For a more extensive listing of organ recitals, choral concerts, chamber music, festival services, and other musical events in the Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Orange County areas, see the AGO Calendar.

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Programs and Educational Events for 2007-2008

 

Buxtehude 300th Anniversary Concert

Monday, October 1, 2007, 8:15 p.m.
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
1031 Bienveneda Ave. (near Sunset Blvd.), Pacific Palisades
Admission: Free, open to the public.
Parking: Free in church lot
Click for map and directions.
Pre-concert talk by KUSC-FM's Kimberlea Daggy at 8:00 p.m.
See a pdf flyer for this program

Organists Roger Daggy, Thomas Neenan, and Karen Reinhard will be featured in a program of Baroque delights. This program of solo organ works, cantatas, and chamber music by Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637 - 1707) will include two organs, harpsichord, and an ensemble of voices and strings. The program is in observance of the 300th anniversary year of Buxtehude, who was organist of St. Mary's Church (pictured) in the north German city of Lübeck. Come early to enjoy St. Matthew's beautiful campus and hear a pre-concert talk by KUSC-FM morning host Kimberlea Daggy at 8:00 p.m. This event is co-sponsored with St. Matthew's Music Guild; see their website for more information, including works to be performed. See a pdf flyer for this program.

C.B. Fisk organ, 2 manuals and pedal, 37 ranks of pipes
Greg Harrold organ, 1 manual, 6 stops
John Phillips harpsichord, 2 manuals

Chapter dinner meeting precedes (by reservation) on St. Matthew's patio (weather permitting); see newsletter for details.

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Lecture/Demonstration with Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen:
Scandinavian Organ Music

Saturday, October 6, 2007, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
UCLA Organ Studio, Schoenberg Music Building
Westwood
Admission: Free, open to the public. Click for map and directions.
Parking: $8 in UCLA Parking Structure 2, or free on some local
streets (but watch for permit restrictions).
Click for map and directions.
See a pdf flyer for this event.

Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen, organist of Fredericksborg Castle in Denmark, will survey Scandinavian organ music from Buxtehude to the present, including such composers as Bruhns, Hartmann, Gade, Olsson, Grieg, Lindberg, and Møller.

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Organist Clay Christiansen in Recital

Monday, November 5, 2007, 7:30 p.m. (Note earlier time than usual)
Wilshire Boulevard Temple
3663 Wilshire Blvd. (3 blks east of Western Ave.), Los Angeles
Admission: Free, open to the public.
Parking: Free in temple lot on Harvard Blvd. and on local streets
Click for map and directions.

One of four full-time organists of the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, Clay Christiansen brings his virtuosic artistry to the 1929 Kimball organ in the Wilshire Boulevard Temple. This is an opportunity to hear a vintage instrument not often heard in recitals.

The program will include music by Mendelssohn, Reger, Reubke,  Schreiner, and Sowerby. Organ builder Manuel Rosales will speak about the Kimball organ and the revival of expressive Romantic organ building. A reception will follow the program.

Kimball organ, 4 manuals, 61 ranks of pipes

(No chapter dinner meeting this month - note earlier program time.)

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Organist Philip Allen Smith in Recital

Monday, December 3, 2007, 8:15 p.m.
First United Methodist Church
500 E. Colorado Blvd. (at S. Oakland Ave.), Pasadena
Admission: Free, open to the public.
Parking: Free in church lot.
Click for map and directions.

Los Angeles organist Philip Allen Smith performs on the organ in the chapel of First United Methodist Church in Pasadena. Don't miss the opportunity to enjoy this recently renovated chapel and vintage organ that are not familiar to most of us. The program will include seasonal music by Bach, Buxtehude, Dandrieu, Distler, Barber, and Myron Roberts. Phil Smith is Organ Conservator of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner organ, 3 manuals, 29 ranks of pipes

Chapter dinner meeting precedes (by reservation). See newsletter for details.

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Presidents' Day in Claremont:
Celebrating Claremont Organists, Organs, and Composers

Monday, February 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Various locations in Claremont
Admission: Free, open to the public. Please join us for all or any part of this day.
For times, locations, directions, parking, lunch, see schedule.
Also see a flyer for this event.
 
We will be joined by members of the Inland Empire, Long Beach, and Orange County chapters - a fine opportunity to meet colleagues from other AGO chapters in our area.

We will visit Claremont Presbyterian Church, Claremont United Church of Christ Congregational, and Lyman Hall and Bridges Hall of Music (pictured) at Pomona College. William Peterson, Carey Robertson, and Geri DeMasi will perform and demonstrate instruments, and Orpha Ochse will speak about the history of organs in Claremont. Dr. Ochse has organized this event. An optional box lunch is available by advance paid order. See the pdf flyer for schedule, locations, instruments, recitals, directions, parking, and optional box lunch. (Lunch orders must be received by Thursday, Feb. 14.)

Organs by Aeolian-Skinner, Beckerath, Glatter-Götz/Rosales, and Fisk

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AGO Honors Frederick Swann

Sunday, April 13, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
540 S. Commonwealth Ave. (at 6th St.), Los Angeles
Admission: See below.
Parking: Free in church lot.
Click for map and directions.
 

The American Guild of Organists honors international concert artist and current AGO president Frederick Swann for his distinguished musical career and his service to AGO. A national event including a recital and a gala reception to benefit the AGO Endowment Fund. You may attend the recital only, or both the recital and the reception.

Tickets for the recital only are $20 in advance until April 11 and are available from First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. Contact musicadministrator@fccla.org or 213.385.1345. Recital tickets will be $25 at the door.

Combined tickets for the recital and the gala benefit reception are $100 and are available until March 14 from the AGO On-Line Store ($75 of this is a tax-deductible donation). Combined tickets will not be available at the door.

To advertise in the souvenir program book, and/or to make a tax-deductible contribution to AGO in honor of Mr. Swann, please contact F. Anthony Thurman by March 14: 212.870.2311 ext. 4308 or e-mail gala@agohq.org.

For information, see www.agohq.org or the January issue of The American Organist, page 17.

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Master Class with Frederick Swann

Saturday, April 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m. to Noon
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
1920 W. Glenoaks Blvd. (between Alameda and Western), Glendale
Admission: $10 (benefits Los Angeles Chapter AGO)
Parking: Free in church lot and on local streets
Click for map and directions.

Social hour and used music sale at 9:00 a.m.
(Bring and donate all that music you're never going to play.)

Master class with Frederick Swann from 10:00 a.m. to noon.

Co-sponsored by Robert Tall & Associates

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Organist Marija Lončar Strohm in Recital

Monday, May 5, 2008, 8:15 p.m.
First Baptist Church of Los Angeles
760 S. Westmoreland Ave. (at 8th St.),
Los Angeles
Admission: Free, open to the public
Parking: Free in church lot.
Click for map and directions.

Organist Marija Lončar Strohm plays a varied recital using both the chapel and sanctuary organs at First Baptist Church of Los Angeles. The program includes familiar works by French composers, as well as works by less-familiar (to us) Croatian composers Luka Sorkočević and Albe Vidaković. Also on the program will be a Fantasia for Two Players by Josef Labor, played by Ms. Strohm and her husband Lawrence Tudor Strohm.

Ms. Strohm is a native of Croatia and holds a master's degree in organ performance from the University of Southern California. She is organist and music director of New Hope Presbyterian Church in Pasadena.

Sanctuary: W.W. Kimball/Ken Simpson organ, 3 manuals, 92 ranks of pipes
Chapel: Ken Simpson organ, 2 manuals, 17 ranks of pipes

Chapter dinner meeting precedes (by reservation). See newsletter for details.

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 Next Event:

Lecture/Demonstration with Maxine Thévenot:
Canadian Organ Music

Saturday, June 7, 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
UCLA Organ Studio, Schoenberg Music Building
Westwood
Admission: Free, open to the public.
Parking: $8 in UCLA parking structure, or free on some local streets (but watch for permit restrictions).
Click for map and directions.

Maxine Thévenot, a native of Canada, is Associate Organist-Choir Director at the Cathedral Church of St. John in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Visit her website.

The UCLA Organ Studio is on the second floor of the Schoenberg Music Building near the campus entrance at Hilgard and Westholme.

Click for a pdf flyer with more information.

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We are most grateful to all those who by their generous contributions help to make our programs available to the public without admission charge. This is done in support of the Guild's mission "to promote the organ." To see our subscriber list in PDF format, click here.

If you would like to contribute in support of our programs, please contact our fundraising chair, Robert Tall.

 


 

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