2018 - 2019 Chapter Programs
Unless otherwise stated, all chapter programs listed here are open to the general public.
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Sunday, October 14th, 2018, 4:00 pm Organ Recital - The Chenault Duo St. Peter's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church 500 South Country Road Bay Shore, New York (531) 665-0051 Ext. 124 Specializing in and exclusively performing works written for four hands and four feet at one pipe organ, Elizabeth and Raymond Chenault are "The World's Premiere Duo-Organ Team". The recital will feature a number of works commissioned specifically for this talented duo. $20/$15 seniors, students, members of AGO |
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Sunday, November 11th, 2018, 3:00 pm Organ Recital - Douglas Major St. John's Episcopal Church, 1670 Route 25A Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 (516) 692-6368 Ext. 5 Douglas will present a program in honor of our nation's veterans, on this 100th Anniversary of the Armistice of World War 1. The program will include works by Hewitt, Copland and Sousa. $20/$15 seniors, students, members of AGO |
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Friday, January 18th, 2019, 7:30 pm Children's Choir Directors' Workshop with Martha Campanile St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 48 Greene Avenue Sayville, NY 11782 (631) 567-8913 |
Monday, January 21st, 2019, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Martin Luther King Day Workshop: witkowskiflyerrev.pdf
How to Integrate Jazz in Worship
(even if you aren't a jazz musician)
with Deanna Witkowski
SPECIAL OFFER: Register by 12/31/18 for discount admission and complimentary copy of a hymn tune arrangement. Click HERE for registration form.
Calvary Lutheran Church Click Here For Promotional YouTube Video
860 Townline Road
Hauppauge, NY 11788
(631) 724-3886
Program Description: Whether or not you are a jazz player, you will walk away from this workshop with resources that you can immediately use in worship services. In the morning session, Deanna will share both lead sheets and fully notated piano scores from her catalog of jazz hymn arrangements, prayer responses, psalms, and Mass settings. In the afternoon, she will demonstrate basic exercises relating to improvisation and harmonizing a simple melody (along with written examples). Participants will be invited to be hands on and to try out some of the exercises at the workshop with Deanna offering coaching. The session is meant for people who have zero to a lot of knowledge of jazz.
About Our Presenter: Winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and a former guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, Manhattan based pianist/composer Deanna Witkowski has been heralded for her “consistently thrilling” playing and her “boundless imagination” (AllMusic). A former Episcopal church music director, Witkowski actively presents liturgical jazz in churches across the country. Her sacred music catalog includes over 80 sacred music pieces including two jazz Masses. Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns, Witkowski's 2017 trio recording, features fourteen of her jazz arrangements of classic hymns along with a companion sheet music book. As a composer, Witkowsk's accolades include winning the 2017 Annual Hymn Search of The Hymn Society in the US and Canada, the ChoralArt New England Carol Contest, and the Colorado Chorale commissioning contest. Her SATB song, “We Walk in Love,” is included in the Justice Choir songbook and was recently sung by the 900 voice St. Olaf Choral Festival choir.
Learn more at deannajazz.com.
Workshop Information:
Schedule: 9:00 - 9:30 Registration/Sign-in - Coffee and Donuts
9:30 - 11:00 Session I - Repertoire including samples from choral works and congregational songs.
11:00 - 11:30 Break - More Coffee and Donuts
11:30 - 1:00 Session II - "Hands on with examples of notated chord progressions and spoken/played demos.
The program is meant for people, from those with zero knowledge of jazz to those who know a lot.
Registration Fees :
$15 - Early Registration - Received no later than 12/31/18 for Suffolk AGO members and non-members.
$20 - Suffolk AGO walk-ins and members' registrations received AFTER 12/31/18
$25 - Non-member walk-ins and registrations received AFTER 12/31/18
Click HERE for registration form.
NOTE: Early registrants will receive a complimentary copy of a full piano score of one of the hymn tune arrangements.
Martin Luther King Day Workshop: witkowskiflyerrev.pdf
How to Integrate Jazz in Worship
(even if you aren't a jazz musician)
with Deanna Witkowski
SPECIAL OFFER: Register by 12/31/18 for discount admission and complimentary copy of a hymn tune arrangement. Click HERE for registration form.
Calvary Lutheran Church Click Here For Promotional YouTube Video
860 Townline Road
Hauppauge, NY 11788
(631) 724-3886
Program Description: Whether or not you are a jazz player, you will walk away from this workshop with resources that you can immediately use in worship services. In the morning session, Deanna will share both lead sheets and fully notated piano scores from her catalog of jazz hymn arrangements, prayer responses, psalms, and Mass settings. In the afternoon, she will demonstrate basic exercises relating to improvisation and harmonizing a simple melody (along with written examples). Participants will be invited to be hands on and to try out some of the exercises at the workshop with Deanna offering coaching. The session is meant for people who have zero to a lot of knowledge of jazz.
About Our Presenter: Winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and a former guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, Manhattan based pianist/composer Deanna Witkowski has been heralded for her “consistently thrilling” playing and her “boundless imagination” (AllMusic). A former Episcopal church music director, Witkowski actively presents liturgical jazz in churches across the country. Her sacred music catalog includes over 80 sacred music pieces including two jazz Masses. Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns, Witkowski's 2017 trio recording, features fourteen of her jazz arrangements of classic hymns along with a companion sheet music book. As a composer, Witkowsk's accolades include winning the 2017 Annual Hymn Search of The Hymn Society in the US and Canada, the ChoralArt New England Carol Contest, and the Colorado Chorale commissioning contest. Her SATB song, “We Walk in Love,” is included in the Justice Choir songbook and was recently sung by the 900 voice St. Olaf Choral Festival choir.
Learn more at deannajazz.com.
Workshop Information:
Schedule: 9:00 - 9:30 Registration/Sign-in - Coffee and Donuts
9:30 - 11:00 Session I - Repertoire including samples from choral works and congregational songs.
11:00 - 11:30 Break - More Coffee and Donuts
11:30 - 1:00 Session II - "Hands on with examples of notated chord progressions and spoken/played demos.
The program is meant for people, from those with zero knowledge of jazz to those who know a lot.
Registration Fees :
$15 - Early Registration - Received no later than 12/31/18 for Suffolk AGO members and non-members.
$20 - Suffolk AGO walk-ins and members' registrations received AFTER 12/31/18
$25 - Non-member walk-ins and registrations received AFTER 12/31/18
Click HERE for registration form.
NOTE: Early registrants will receive a complimentary copy of a full piano score of one of the hymn tune arrangements.
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2019, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church,
48 Greene Avenue Sayville, NY 11782 (631) 567-8913 Conductor Martha Campanile will lead a choir made up of hundreds of children from across Long Island in a festival service of music. Mrs. Campanile is the Choral Director of the Bay Area Friends of Fine Arts (BAFFA) and presently serves as the Choir Director and Organist of the united Methodist Church of Patchogue. She is the former Director of the Youth Chorale for the Brookhaven Choral Festival. A free-will offering will be collected to support the SAGO Children's Choir Festival Fund. |
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019, 3:00 pm
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019, 4:00 pm Scholarship Awards Recital, given by Jillian Gardner Gloria Dei Evangelical Lutheran Church 22 E 18th Street Huntington Station, NY 11746 (631) 271-2466 Click HERE to view recital program. A light reception will follow the program. Free will offering to benefit Organ Scholarship Awards Program - Suggested donation: $15 for Adults, $10 for Seniors & Students Click HERE to view recital flyer. |
Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
Bus Trip to Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall
featuring the Midmer-Losh Pipe Organ (449/VII)
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST PIPE ORGAN
Cost: Early Registration - $115 per person - received by June 15th OR Regular Registration - $130 per person - received after June 15th (includes transportation, dinner, and gratuities)
SOME HISTORY OF THE BOARDWALK HALL ORGANS (from Boardwalk Hall website):
The organ in the Main Auditorium was built by the Midmer-Losh Co., of Merrick, Long Island. Work began in May, 1929 and was completed in December, 1932. The specifications were drawn up by Emerson L. Richards, a native of Atlantic City and State Senator for Atlantic County. He described himself as an "Organ Architect" and, over the years, had some 80 articles published in organ journals. The Midmer-Losh organ is often described as "The Sonic Mt. Rushmore".
To fill the vast space of the Main Auditorium the organ has ten 32-foot ranks, the world's only 64-foot Diaphone, and four voices on 100" of wind (double that of any other organ ever constructed). With an official total of 33,114 pipes, the organ is the largest (and loudest!) musical instrument on Earth. Although it has not functioned fully since the great Atlantic hurricane of 1944, it still continued to play for conventions the Miss America Pageant, political rallies and sports events. The organ had not been fully operational since the mid-1970s. The Ballroom houses a 55/IV Kimball, which is also undergoing restoration. We will get to hear the Kimball organ thanks to its record/playback capabilities!
Thanks to the efforts of the not-for-profit Historic Organs Restoration Committee work of the past 8 years has brought back approximately 75% of the Kimball organ and 25% of the Midmer-Losh organ. Given available funding and generous public support, the anticipated project completion date is 2023.
CLICK HERE FOR FLYER
CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORM
Bus Trip to Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall
featuring the Midmer-Losh Pipe Organ (449/VII)
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST PIPE ORGAN
Cost: Early Registration - $115 per person - received by June 15th OR Regular Registration - $130 per person - received after June 15th (includes transportation, dinner, and gratuities)
SOME HISTORY OF THE BOARDWALK HALL ORGANS (from Boardwalk Hall website):
The organ in the Main Auditorium was built by the Midmer-Losh Co., of Merrick, Long Island. Work began in May, 1929 and was completed in December, 1932. The specifications were drawn up by Emerson L. Richards, a native of Atlantic City and State Senator for Atlantic County. He described himself as an "Organ Architect" and, over the years, had some 80 articles published in organ journals. The Midmer-Losh organ is often described as "The Sonic Mt. Rushmore".
To fill the vast space of the Main Auditorium the organ has ten 32-foot ranks, the world's only 64-foot Diaphone, and four voices on 100" of wind (double that of any other organ ever constructed). With an official total of 33,114 pipes, the organ is the largest (and loudest!) musical instrument on Earth. Although it has not functioned fully since the great Atlantic hurricane of 1944, it still continued to play for conventions the Miss America Pageant, political rallies and sports events. The organ had not been fully operational since the mid-1970s. The Ballroom houses a 55/IV Kimball, which is also undergoing restoration. We will get to hear the Kimball organ thanks to its record/playback capabilities!
Thanks to the efforts of the not-for-profit Historic Organs Restoration Committee work of the past 8 years has brought back approximately 75% of the Kimball organ and 25% of the Midmer-Losh organ. Given available funding and generous public support, the anticipated project completion date is 2023.
CLICK HERE FOR FLYER
CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORM
Read about SAGO Programs from years past in our Newsletter Archive.
