Friends,

There is one more week remaining to register for our upcoming "Resources for Today's Church Musician" Workshop which will be held on Saturday, March 9. We are partnering to present this workshop in conjunction with the Cleveland National Pastoral Musicians (NPM). Your program committee put this workshop together in response to a member survey which indicated interest in practical music for church musicians and the use of electronic instruments in worship. The lovely venue of the Ursuline Education Center was chosen in part because it has a late model Rogers organ and a lovely chapel.

Please look over the list of workshops below and follow the directions on how to register. Please note that registrants will receive a packet of choral music to take home which has been put together by Cliff Hill of Cliff Hill Music Co. Lunch is also included in the registration fee of $25 for members. There is a special student fee of $12.

Do join us for a time of sharing of ideas and resources as well as fellowship around lunch.

I hope to see you there.

Fern

CHURCH MUSIC WORKSHOP: "Resources for Today's Church Musician" co-sponsored by Cleveland AGO and Cleveland National

Saturday, March 9, 2013, 9:30am - 2:45 pm

Ursuline Chapel

Link for driving directions and other information: www.ursulinesisters.org/ursuline-educational-center 

We will gather for coffee, sweets and staff introductions at 9:30 a.m. and will continue with choices from five different class sessions presented by our area leadership. All sessions are directed toward the changing needs of the field of church music.

All sessions are directed toward the changing needs of the field of church music: materials for smaller choirs, organ music for more than Preludes and Postludes, electronic organ devises and discussion of timely issues including - What are our responsibilities regarding Music Licensing? What are the best ways to present ourselves as professionals?  

10 a.m. Choral Resources for Smaller Choirs - Clifford Hill. Packets of free choral music are included in the registration fee.  

11 a.m. Copyright Issues in the Digital Age - David Powers, Bob Soeder

11 a.m. Organ Resources for the Easter Season - Barbara MacGregor

1 p.m. Electronic Organ Technology and MIDI - David Powers, Christopher Toth

1 p.m. Professional Development: Résumés and Certification - Dan Bergen, Fern Jennings, Tim Robson.

The day will include a buffet lunch and will conclude by 2:45 p.m. in the chapel with a reflective service of Word and Music for Lent. Come prepared to find resources for yourwork and your spirit and to join in community with other musicians.

Prior registration is required and can be done online or by contacting Registrar, Ruth Novak at rnovak.stmarysberea@gmail.com . (216-210-0542).  A flyer for the event is available for download, as is a registration form, if you prefer to mail in your registration form and check rather than to do it online.   If you have trouble with these links, you can find them at the bottom of the home page at agocleveland.org. 

Registration fees are $25. for AGO or NPM members and $35. for non-members.

Do you know someone studying organ? A beginner? A college student? A private student? Encourage them to apply for one of our scholarships. The application deadline is March 31. Here is a link to the application. If you'd like to receive an application in the mail, please let me know.

And you may still give a tax-deductible donation to support our scholarships for the study of the King of Instruments! Here is a link to the donation form. (If you have trouble with these links, you can also download them from the home page at agocleveland.org) 

Thanks for your support!

Carol Neff, CAGO

Chair, AGO Scholarship Committee

Welcome to new member Elaine Stone. She writes:  My husband and I moved to Medina from Gettysburg, PA a year ago.  We are originally from Indiana. Currently I am substituting as organist/pianist in the Medina area.

 

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We have belatedly learned of the death of member Charles Teare. A memorial concert was held in September at Trinity Cathedral.

Peg Limkeman has been named Minister of Music Emerita by Lakewood Presbyterian Church. Congratulations, Peg!

LISA RAINSONG'S BLOG

Known to many church musicians as a singer and composer Lisa Rainsong in addition to teaching theory at CIM teaches birdsongs. If you are interested in the outdoors and the world of natural sounds you will be interested in her new blog. Lisa writes:

Hi, all,

I've just launched my "Listening in Nature" blog, where I'll be sharing recordings, photos, and observations from the field and even from the neighborhood. It will be specific to NE Ohio and will follow the natural world's progression of bird songs, amphibian songs, insect songs, and whatever else I hear out there that might be interesting. I'm new to blogging, but not to teaching. I very much want to reach more people with information about what they are hearing - or what they will hear if they listen more closely. It's all about natural history education, of course, and I hope people will become engaged and curious as they hear more of what's going on in nature. My hope is that they will also become more invested in protecting nature's musicians and their concert halls as well.

http://listeninginnature.blogspot.com/

Lisa

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