Weekly UpdateAmerican Guild of Organists Cleveland Chapter
November 10, 2011
FROM THE WEB ADMINISTRATOR
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Timothy Robson

 Our Dean, Jim Riggs, is taking a well-deserved break this week from his usual greetings, after the successful Cleveland Organ Weekend.

 

Please be aware that there will be no Weekly Update during Thanksgiving week (November 24), so next week's edition dated November 17 will be for two weeks.  I know that there are many concerts and other events coming up, so be sure to send your events and other news for the weeks of November 17 and 24 to Linda Gardner (newsletter@agocleveland.org) no later than NOON on Wednesday, November 16, for inclusion in the double issue.  Although we generally list concerts for only the next couple of weeks, Linda maintains out AGO online calendar as far in advance as people provide her information.  You can find that complete calendar at the chapter web site.  

 

News items of interest to AGO members are always welcome.  

 

Aren't we lucky to have such a wealth of fine performances!

 

Cheers,

Tim Robson

AGO Cleveland

Web Administrator 

 

 

 

 

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Dear AGO Cleveland Colleague,
Welcome to the Weekly Update from the Cleveland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists! Each week on Thursday, we publish this email newsletter to help you stay informed about activities and programs of the Cleveland AGO Chapter. Questions or comments? Please let us know: admin@agocleveland.org  Have a news item for a future issue? Send to: newsletter@agocleveland.org.  The deadline each week is Wednesday at noon for Thursday publication.

 

IN THIS ISSUE
From the Web Administrator
Upcoming Cleveland Events
Executive Committee Meetings
Concerts
About Job Postings
Upcoming Cleveland Chapter Events
 
Upcoming Executive Committee Meeting

Monday, November 14, 2011, 7:30-9:00 PM

Lakewood Presbyterian Church

 

Chapter Epiphany Party
January 6, 2012, 7:30 PM
Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland
Stay tuned for details
Concerts

 

Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m.:  St. Paul's Episcopal Church 317 East Liberty Street, Medina, Ohio.  Brown Bag Concert   Bring your own lunch or brown bag lunches are available for $5.00.  Just call the church office 24 hours prior to the concert at 330-725-4131.
November 15:  Karen McCurdy, Hammered Dulcimer and Karen Babb,Celtic Harp

Tuesdays at 12:10:  Messiah Lutheran Church, 21485 Lorain Road, Fairview Park, Ohio 44126.  440.331.2405.  www.messiahchurchfairview.org. Music for Tuesdays at 12:10 starts up again on October 18! This will be a wonderful series of programs-a lot of music that you'll not hear anywhere else this year! The programs are held in the sanctuary and are open to the public. Bring your brown bag lunch-we provide coffee, tea, and cookies. The programs conclude before 1:00 p.m. and are entirely informal...come when you can, and leave when you must.  While a donation is not turned down, it's not obligatory.
Nov. 15:  Brian Bacon, baritone; David Gooding, piano; Songs by Amy Beach and James Rogers
Nov 22:  The Dinglehop Sisters-Swinging on a Star

Wednesdays at noon:  Music Near the Market at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2031 West 30th St., Cleveland.  CONTACT: Florence Mustric:  216.321.1393.  FREE concerts AT NOON   on Wednesdays.  
November 16:  Shane Brandes, piano
November 23:  Linda Kempke, harpsichord

Wednesdays at 12:10 p.m.:  Brownbag Concerts at Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115.  216.771.3630.  www.trinitycleveland.org.  Bring a lunch or purchase one for $5.00.  Concerts range from jazz to classical chamber music, big band, pipe organ with brass, vocal music of George Gershwin and much more. All programs take place in the beautiful Gothic nave of Trinity Cathedral. There is no admission fee - a freewill offering is taken at each concert.  The Trinity Commons parking lot entrance is on Prospect Avenue at East 22nd Street (Free parking). Overflow parking is available in the Cleveland State University Prospect garage.
November 16:  Jackie Warren, Queen of Cleveland's jazz piano scene (with organist Todd Wilson in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue)

Saturday, November 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.:   Broad Street United Methodist Church, 501 E. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio.  A Morning of Workshops: Improvisation and Solo Vocal Repertoire.  The first of our annual workshop sessions will be a class in improvisation presented by Robert Wisniewski (principal organist, St. Joseph Cathedral) and Charles Yanerella (President, Graves Piano and Organ Company). This class will be geared towards a variety of skill levels. The second session will be an overview of vocal repertoire for the church soloist, with examples sung by Al and Cynthia Adcock and Katie O'Keefe, accompanied by Brian Johnson. This workshop will include a list of seasonal and general repertoire for the church soloist (you are encouraged to bring solo singers from your church). The workshops will begin with breakfast snacks, coffee, and juice at 8:30 a.m.

Sunday, November 13 at 4:00 p.m.:  Church of the Ascension, 13216 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio.
Linda Gardner, organ.  Featuring H. Leslie Adams: "Prelude and Fugue" and "Offering of Love."  On: Program of Works by American Composers.  Music by Adams, Purvis, Ore, Goemanne, Hurd, Young, Sanders, and Akerley.

Sunday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m.:  St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 2747 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights.  Karel Paukert, organ and harpsichord; Mary Kay Ferguson, flute.  Works by L. Vinci, J. Weaver, F. Martin, J. Alain and others.  Freewill offering. Contact:  carolyn@wipper.com.
 
Wednesday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m.:  Mary Queen of Peace, 4423 Pearl Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44109.  Opus 8.  Opus 8 is an all-male vocal ensemble dedicated to achieving the highest standards of choral artistry.  Not specializing in any musical genre, Opus 8 draws from many styles and periods of music history.  www.opuseight.org.  Free and secure parking is available in the parish parking lots.  Mary Queen of Peace is located on Pearl Road, approx. 1 ½ miles north of Brookpark Road and approx. ¾ miles south of the Cleveland  Metroparks Zoo.  A free-will offering will be taken.

Friday, November 18 at 7:30 p.m.: Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115.  216.771.3630.  www.trinitycleveland.org.   Britten-Fest:  Music of a 20th-Century Genius.  Freewill offering.  Saint Nicolas, Op. 42.  The Trinity Cathedral Choir and Chamber Orchestra; JR Fralick as Nicolas.  The Trinity Commons parking lot entrance is on Prospect Avenue at East 22nd Street (Free parking). Overflow parking is available in the Cleveland State University Prospect garage.

Saturday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m.:  Brecksville United Methodist Church, 65 Public Square,  Brecksville  OH  44141.  Duo Keyboard Concert.  Joy Fenton and Chris Toth.  Music for organ & piano and piano four hands.  Freewill Offering.  Music by Peeters, Finzi, Bach, Busoni, Jongen, Raney, and Gershwin.  Joy Fenton, Director of Music.  440.526.8938.   music@brecksvilleumc.com                            

Sunday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m.:  Church of the Saviour, 2537 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118, 216.321.8880.  www.chsaviour.org.  Thanksgiving Concert.  Festive music for multiple choirs and handbells, including Z. Randall Stroope's American Rhapsody for combined choirs, organ, brass and percussion.  Free-will offering.  Free lighted parking, handicapped accessible.

Sunday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m.:  Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Bldg., Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, 96 Front St. Berea, OH.  Baroque Trumpet, Organ and Timpani Concert.  Michael Miller, Lyle Steelman, and Jack Sutte, trumpeters with The Cleveland Orchestra, present an eclectic shapshot of trumpet music from the Baroque period with organist, Barbara MacGregor.  The program includes trumpet concertos by Albinoni and Telemann, English Voluntaries, and familiar transcriptions by J. S. Bach. Heroic music for trumpet and timpani with timpanist, Josh Ryan, will begin and end the concert.  Free admission.    For more information contact Craig Reynolds, 440-826-807.  creynold@bw.edu

Sunday, November 20 at 3:00 p.m.:  Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115.  216.771.3630.  www.trinitycleveland.org.   Britten-Fest:  Music of a 20th-Century Genius.  Freewill offering.  The Five Canticles, followed by High Tea.  JR Fralick (tenor); John McElliott (alto); Al Glickson (bass); Todd Wilson (piano)

Sunday, November 20 at 3:30 p.m.:  First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Boulevard at Eaton Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio.  Heights Chamber Orchestra.  The Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4.

Sunday November 20 at 4:00 p.m.:  Brecksville United Church of Christ, 23 Public Square, Brecksville, OH 44141440.  The Bel Fiore String Quartet from the Cleveland Institute of Music. The free concert will feature works by Puccini, Shostakovich, Freckmann, and Milhaud. A free will offering will be received, and a light reception will follow the program. Brecksville UCC is located at 23 Public Square in downtown Brecksville near the intersection of Routes 82 and 21. Parking is available behind the church off 82 or one block south of 82 off Arlington St. The building is handicapped accessible. For more information, call 440-526-4364.

Sunday, November 20 at 4:00 p.m.:  Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2031 West 30th St., Cleveland.  CONTACT: Florence Mustric:  216.321.1393.  Madrigal Feaste!  Ashland University Chamber Singers.  Rowland Blackley, conductor.  Ashland University Chamber Singers will preview the Christmas season, renaissance style!  Come enjoy the vocal splendor of this distinctive music.  


Sunday, November 27 at 5:30 p.m.:  Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115.  216.771.3630.  www.trinitycleveland.org.    Tuba Christmas Cleveland.  Freewill offering.  Big brass music of the season.  The Trinity Commons parking lot entrance is on Prospect Avenue at East 22nd Street (Free parking). Overflow parking is available in the Cleveland State University Prospect garage.

Sunday, November 27 at 7:00 p.m.:  Grace Lutheran Church, 13001 Cedar Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118.  http://graceheights.org.  Handel's Messiah.  The Cleveland Messiah Chorus, organized in 1921.  Ginie Mast, Director. Christopher Toth, Organ.  Freewill Offering.  Tony Peterson, Secretary. clevmessiahchorus@gmail.com  
 
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