Like many members of A.G.O., music is an avocation for me. I became interested in church music while stationed on the east coast during the Viet Nam conflict, and was able to attend a number of services at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. After my...
After 12 years of piano study, it was my senior year in high school when I began studying the organ at the urging of my mother. I decided to major in organ at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN. After 2 years of study I was not accomplishing much, and...
I'll let you in on a little secret: my greatest joy as an organist is playing hymns. To be sure, I enjoy the repertoire of our instrument, but I also find the experience of leading a choir and congregation in the great hymns of the church to...
But I was there!!! I mean I was really, REALLY there when that Skinner was installed!. I was an eighteen year old kid (it’s ok if you do the numbers; I’m too old to care) from the neighborhoods of Chicago with nothing special but a love of playing the...
“There is no sound more beautiful than people singing God’s praise.” These words, instilled in me by my first organ teacher and choir director, Ann Celeen Dohms, have become a life-long mantra. Before I sang in her boys’ choir or was her organ student, I was...
My life as a musician, organist, conductor, and harpsichordist has been much more enjoyable and rich than I could have ever imagined when I set my sights on this path in earnest, some thirty years ago. Above all else, I value the opportunity to immerse myself in...