This book offers competent and disinterested advice for churches installing new organs. It is a clear and readable presentation of a complicated topic that never skimps on important information. It is designed for use by organ committees who are new to the world of organs and organ building.
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Dedicating an Organ gathers everything together for planning the dedication service for a new organ. Interdenominational in scope, this booklet contains sample services, invocations, litanies, prayers, and hymns. Not just for dedications of organs, much of the text can be incorporated into services for recognition of choir members and other musicians, a new piano, and even handbells.
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Jerrick Cavagnaro, the 2024 First Prize Winner in the American Guild of Organists’ National Competition in Organ Improvisation (AGO NCOI), releases his debut commercial audio recording with “Firm Foundations” (Pro Organo 7312). Mr. Cavagnaro’s program, performed on the organ of Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, balances a variety of organ repertoire selections with a series of improvisations in a wide range of improvisatory styles, ranging from the familiar to the post-modern. ... Details
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Each packet includes 20 (blank) cards with 20 envelopes. There are 5 cards each of 4 different designs. The cards are shipped 1st class USPS, and the shipping charge is included in the price for this holiday season.
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Make the Guild's lapel pin a part of your professional attire. It will make a great statement on any special occasion! (Limited availability.)
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Chapter deans - communicate with your members and chapter friends in style! Each package includes 20 cards and envelopes with the new AGO seal.
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The Guild's patch can easily be attached to a robe or jacket or any other article of clothing. It is approximately 4 inches in length and 3 inches in width. (Also available for certificated members with AAGO, ChM, or FAGO affixed to the patch. Please contact AGO Headquarters for details at 212-870-2310.)
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Honor your chapter's Past Dean with the newly produced 10K goldplate die-cut pin with crimson cloinsonné around the lettering.
The fastener has been updated to an easy-to clasp and unclasp spring button without a moving pin and clasp (squeeze between finger and thumb to release, push on to fasten).
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The 2024 NYACOP Prize Winner performs an all-French program on the 2024 Juget-Sinclair instrument at Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond, Virginia.
Program:
Veni Creator - Nicolas de Grigny
Elevation in A Minor - Louis-James Alfred Lefébure-Wély
Carmen Fantasy - Georges Bizet / Edwin Lemare
Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns / Edwin Lemare
Deuxième Fantaisie - Jehan Alain
Fantasmagorie - Jehan Alain
Suite for Organ, Op. 5 -... Details
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The TAO slipcase holds twelve issues of The American Organist in a handsome bookshelf case. The slipcase ships via USPS first class.
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Swell to Great: A Backward Look from My Organ Loft, by Roberta Bitgood, FAGO, with Julia Goodfellow. This is the autobiographical memoir of Roberta Bitgood, the first female president of the American Guild of Organists, who shares her life in her own words with reminiscences from friends and colleagues. Proceeds of the sale of this item support the New Organist Fund of the AGO.
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This 24-page booklet explains the origins of the pipe organ, how a pipe organ works, pitches available on the pipe organ, the basic sound groups of a pipe organ, and the divisions of a pipe organ. The text is by Sandra Soderlund and drawings (included on every page) are by Catherine Fischer. Copyright © 1994 American Guild of Organists. [NOTE to Chapter Leaders: for orders of this item for chapter events please contact AGO Headquarters at 212-870-2310.]
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AGO-produced documentary archive of five of the most distinguished 20th Century organists. Individual volumes available for $15 each. Excerpts (only) of all five DVDs are available for viewing on the AGO YouTube channel. (The DVDs contain material for which synchronization licensing necessary for YouTube was not feasible.)
Volume 1 – Catharine Crozier (85 min.)
Volume 2 – Marie-Claire Alain (77 min.)
Volume 3 – Frederick Swann (77 min.)
Volume 4 – Gerre... Details
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This 3 CD presentation by Dr. Leon Couch provides a stimulating discussion of the historical, rhetorical, theoretical, and practical aspects of musical rhetoric. He demonstrates how a practical application of musical rhetoric to the music of Buxtehude can make a dramatic impact. It was designed to benefit both the accomplished organist as well as the beginning student. This package includes lecture CD’s and a printed lecture text booklet with the musical examples.
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Always keep a copy in your desk! This useful item organizes Latin pronunciation into vowels, diphthongs, and consonants, and uses equivalent sounds in English instead of confusing phonetic symbols.
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AGO has limited quantities which can be purchased of program books from past conventions (1994 through 2024). Please call 212-870-2310 for more information.
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Please contact the AGO membership team at [email protected] or by phone at 212-870-2310 to purchase back issues.
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This item is available to download for free to the general public at the following web address:
https://wp.agohq.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AGO_Employment_Handbook_2ndPrinting_FNL_online.pdf
This handbook for committees and candidates provides perspectives for clergy and laypersons responsible for the process that will bring effective and talented musicians to religious institutions and their diverse memberships. Guidelines suggested in this booklet will help... Details
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A unique, historical document assembled for the first time, the AGO Founders Hymnal includes 83 hymns with tunes by 79 Founders of the American Guild of Organists. Many notable American composers are featured: Dudley Buck, George Chatwick, Arthur Foote, John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, and Harry Rowe Shelley. Prominent organists are also represented: Samuel Baldwin, Gaston Dethier, Clarence Dickinson, Clarence Eddy, Samuel P. Warren, and Gerrit Smith.
The Hymnal... Details
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Ivan Bosnar is the AGO 2020 NCOI winner. He plays the 1890 Barckhoff/ 2017 Parsons organ St. Mary's Church, Auburn, NY. Listen here.
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The 2018 First Prize Winner of the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP) sponsored by the American Guild of Organists (AGO) appeared in his debut CD on Pro Organo with a varied program, featuring rarely heard impressionist works of Joseph-Ermend Bonnal, works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert, and some transcriptions, played on the Rieger organ at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church in greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The 2018 First Prize Winner of the National Competition in Organ Improvisation (NCOI) sponsored by the American Guild of Organists (AGO), appears in his debut CD on the Pro Organo label with a program containing 3 forms of organ improvisation, and featuring music of his mentor, the late McNeil Robinson, one of his own transcriptions of a Vivaldi concerto, and the Toccata Septima by Georg Muffat. The program is played upon the N. P. Mander organ (1993) at the Church of St. Ignatius... Details
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A production of the Los Angeles Chapter AGO. Ann Labounsky, PhD, FAGO, host and artist. A documentary of the titular organist of Sainte-Clothilde (1945-1988) recorded at Pasadena Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, California.
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Documentary showcasing Dr. Crozier as performer and teacher. Excerpts of this DVD are available on the AGO YouTube Channel, but works under copyright that would have required streaming licenses are only available in this video recording.
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Two masterclasses recorded during Mme. Alain's 40th anniversary tour of the USA. (77 minutes)
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