Sunday, November 3 at 5:00 p.m. ALL SAINTS EVENSONG & DURUFLÉ’S “REQUIEM” St. Giles Episcopal Church 3025 Walters Avenue Northbrook, IL 60062 The Choir of St. Giles James R. Brown, Director of Music David Jonies (Holy Name Cathedral), Organist For more...
Income from dues and donations paid in September was $615.00. Most members’ annual dues are paid between June and September. Our current balances as of 25 September, 2019 are: Checking $10,118.95 Scholarships $2,069.27 Reserves $19,684.86 Total $31,873.08 The...
On a dark and rainy Sunday afternoon (It was a dark and stormy night…..) 30 North Shore members and friends gathered at Christ Church in Winnetka for fellowship and music sharing. We enjoyed delicious cookies, cheese and crackers and punch provided so ably by Eileen...
Last spring I was approached by organist, colleague, and friend Sharon Peterson to see if my son, Solomon, might be interested in North Shore Chapter AGO’s Organ Scholar Initiative program providing three free organ lessons and a year-long AGO membership. I wasn’t...
Sept. 15 NSAGO Board Meeting The Chapter decided to offer this program again after a successful launch in 2017. Four students received three free lessons, taught by three teachers. (A fourth teacher, Robert Woodworth offered, but there were no additional students to...
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...
A very warm welcome to Morris Phibbs who joined North Shore this month. We look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming events! Rich Spantikow, Membership
Happy Autumn! Your Steering committee for the Great Lakes AGO Regional Convention 2021 continues to be busy working on the regional convention we’ll be sponsoring in June of 2021. We have just turned in our Program Proposal and Proposed Budget to National...
Being an unabashed Anglophile since my college days, I’ve been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien and his writings. My dog is even named Strider, after Aragorn, the future King in Lord of the Rings. I’ve appreciated Tolkien’s quote, “All we have to decide is what to do with the...