Beware the Ides of March! So here is the Month of March this year that is the season of Lent, Holy Week and Easter along with the beginning of the month of Ramadan. For many this is the month of hearing a variety of Requiems as similar to the Advent season with...
Welcome to April! It is just incredible that it is April now! The six weeks of Lent, Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Easter have now disappeared into History! Lately it has been very interesting in reading the submittals by many musical colleagues worldwide on Facebook to...
Welcome to February! February is such an interesting month for being the shortest month of the year, however it does have an inordinate number of very special days including but not limited to Presidential Birthdays, Ash Wednesday (usually), Valentine’s Day, Leap...
A Very Happy New Year to Everyone! Goodbye to 2023 – Welcome to 2024 A look back to Chapter events in 2023: Indeed the North Shore Chapter AGO had a very busy and exciting year! January – the Chapter met at the home of Andrea and David Handley for the Annual Epiphany...
OCTOBER IS HERE! The leaves are falling! The musical season has begun! Regular church services have returned to some sort of normal status! Choir rehearsals are in full sessions and preparing for the special festivals of this Fall season! Area musical groups including...
November has arrived!November is the month of “Remembrances”! Obviously at the beginning of the month are “All Saints”, “All Souls” and “Day of the Dead”. This is the time of the year when we sometimes say “here comes the Requiems” as I so often see on Facebook and...
Welcome to September!! As I search around the many church websites of the North Shore area, I see that the Sunday after the Labor Day weekend is named Rally Day, First Festival or some unique name noting that church services are returning to a state of so-called...
So welcome to August – August is usually known as the vacation month – it seems as if everyone is on vacation during this month – I tend to think that all organists in the Metro area are on vacation – organist substitutes are really needed at this time and then...
THE CONVENTION IS OVER! THE CONVENTION IS OVER! THE CONVENTION IS OVER! So, it is time to close the book on this exciting week as it now has gone down in the history books except for the thousands of wonderful memories of meeting new and old friends and the incredible...
The Convention Is Coming!! The Convention Is Coming!! Yes, the Great Lakes Regional Convention will soon be here – just about three weeks away!! The thirteen members of the Steering Committee have been furiously working overtime on the thousands of details necessary...
April showers bring May flowers! It is time to smell the flowers - roses and tulips! Speaking of tulips, there are hundreds of thousands of tulips now blooming in rural suburban Chicago! There are literally hundreds of colors of tulips blooming now through...
Welcome to April – Welcome to April showers! April is commonly associated with the season of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The Romans gave April the Latin name “Aprilis” with the traditional etymology being from the verb “to open”, an allusion to its being the...