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Members Chalkboard | January 2023

The Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada The Center for Congregational Song is sponsoring an eight-session online course in basic hymnology during January 2023. Sessions will be held each Tuesday and Thursday. The course in basic hymnology will be a broad overview of congregational song in the church. Participants will imagine congregational singing to be a musical, theological and pastoral endeavor. The eight sessions will examine models of congregational song from a variety of Christian...
Member ChalkboardOctober 2019

Member Chalkboard
October 2019

Congratulations for Dr. Jay Peterson, one of our chapter members, who presented a workshop at Christ Church of Oak Brook on Friday, Sept 27. It was called, “Keys to the Organ Bench -  A practical workshop to hymn playing on the organ for accomplished pianists...

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Member ChalkboardJuly 2019

Member Chalkboard
July 2019

Jill Hunt reflects on why she attends AGO conventions…. I admit I am an AGO convention junkie. My friend, Helen, prefers the Regionals. I prefer the Nationals, but both work! What makes AGO conventions so special? Consider 2500 organists and church musicians singing...

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TWO NEW MEMBERS

We welcome two new members to our chapter.  Yollanda E. R. Bornhoff of Park Ridge and David R. Whitehouse, CAGO, of Buckley, MI. We look forward to greeting them personally!  It appears that most of our membership has been successful with navigating the National AGO's...

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