North Shore Chapter AGO Annual Epiphany Party
2024-01-07 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | IL
Sunday, January 7, 2024 – 6:00pm
At the home of Andrea and David Handley
516 Greenwood Street – Evanston
An Epiphany Holiday Evening of:
Friendships, Drinks, Appetizers, Dinner, Dessert
and Holiday Musical Entertainment
by the Wood-Burning Fireplaces
Members, Spouses, Partners, Significant Others & Guests Welcome!
Donation $15.00
Please sign up soon and let us know how many will be coming!

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The Weekend Organist: New Year’s Resolutions You Can Keep in 2024
2024-01-08 18:00 - 20:30 | IL
On Monday, January 8th, 6pm CDT (7pm EDT), presenter J.W. Arnold, Marketing & Communications Specialist with AGO national headquarters, will offer “The Weekend Organist: New Year’s Resolutions You Can Keep in 2024,” covering valuable music resolutions and strategies to keep them. All registrants receive a free download of an accessible new organ work by John Dixon, as well as a tip sheet for 2024 resolution strategies.
Register Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rL87XE50TrucoFXvqYFq3Q
For more information on upcoming AGO national events and webinars:
Webinars, Recitals, and Workshops

You Got the Interview…Now What?
2024-01-16 19:00 - 20:30 | IL
Tuesday, January 16th, 7pm EDT
You Got the Interview…Now What?
Presented by the Committee on Career Development and Support
Following a series of webinars on the AGO’s new Employing Musicians in Religious Institutions handbook, the National Committee on Career Development and Support presents tips and tricks for nailing the job interview. In addition to short mock interviews with some typical tough questions presented by the committee, audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions in a Q&A session with our committee panel. Participants at any point in their careers can benefit from this refresher on job interview skills.
Register Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uaB5waJ4QdGdQLQLgQgwVA#/registration

Organ Concert
2024-01-21 15:00 - 16:00 | MADONNA DELLA STRADA CHAPEL, 1032 W Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL, 60660, United States
Organist Brian Schoettler presents a 60-minute concert on the Goulding & Wood organ at Loyola’s Madonna della Strada Chapel as part of the chapel’s monthly concert series. Admission is free and free garage parking is available (enter at Kenmore and West Sheridan Road).

Dr. Jonathan Rudy plays Len Berghaus Memorial Concert presented by Fox Valley AGO
2024-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | St. Raphael Catholic Church, 1215 Modaff Road, Naperville, IL, 60540, United States
An invitation from Fox Valley
On Friday, January 26, at 7:00 p.m., the Fox Valley AGO chapter will present a concert with Dr. Jonathan Rudy, and has invited members from the Chicago chapter to attend. The concert will be at St. Raphael Catholic Church, located at 1215 Modaff Road in Naperville, IL.
This concert celebrates the legacy of Len Berghaus, who died in January 2023. The St. Raphael organ is the largest of his organs in the Fox Valley region. The St. Raphael organ is also turning 25 years old this year, so Dr. Rudy will play many selections from the dedication program as well as some of Len Berghaus’s favorite pieces, including selections by Willan, Manz, Bach, Schumann, and Mozart.
A Gala Reception will follow the concert.

Holy Name Cathedral Concert Series Organ Concert
2024-02-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Holy Name Cathedral, 730 N. Wabash, Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
Organ concert featuring Gail Archer, Concert Organist on the Holy Name Cathedral Flentrop Organ

Holy Name Cathedral Concert Series Organ Concert
2024-02-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Holy Name Cathedral, 730 N. Wabash, Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
Featuring Gail Archer, concert organist playing on the Flentrop organ a program of Tower, Howe, Price, Boulanger, Larsen and Demessieux.

Members Recital
2024-02-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Winnetka Covenant Church, 1200 Hibbard Road, Winnetka, IL, 60093, United States
Members’ Recital featuring the music of the Epiphany and Transfiguration Season at Winnetka Covenant Church, 1200 Hibbard Road, Winnetka.
Members Bridget de la Pena, Michael Gagne, Robert McConnell, Ethan Mellema and Matthew Doran will be the recitalists.

WEBINAR: Woman Composer Sunday: Honoring Trailblazers and Inspiring New Generations
2024-02-12 18:00 - 19:30 | IL
On Monday, February 12th, 6pm Central (7pm Eastern), National AGO Task Force for Gender Equity will offer a webinar covering repertoire and resources related to Woman Composer Sunday (10 March). The task force selected three women composers: Elizabeth Stirling (1819-1895), introduced in the January issue of TAO; Grace Wiersma, daughter of Dr. Roberta Bitgood, organist, composer, and first female president of the AGO (1975-1981); and contemporary composer Martha Sobaje. Look for works by all three in the January-March issues of TAO, for use on Woman Composer Sunday.
Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oMGtLfgcSzC5FwqSaqrzuA

John Schwandt Organ Recital
2024-02-25 15:30 - 17:00 | Chapel of Christ Triumphant, Concordia University Wisconsin, 12800 N Lake Shore Drive, Mequon, WI, 53097, United States
Organ recital by John Schwandt on the Steiner-Reck organ in the Chapel of Christ Triumphant at Concordia University Wisconsin.

Piano Duo Concert
2024-03-03 16:00 - 17:30 | First Presbyterian Church of Evanston, 1427 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
At 4pm on March 3, 1st Presbyterian Church, (Evanston,) the North Shore Choral Society is joined by the four hands and two pianos of Andrea Handley and Sharon Peterson for a family-friendly community concert featuring highlights from Brahms’ Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals.
Please visit www.northshorechoral.org for ticket information
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Organ Concert
2024-03-15 19:30 - 20:30 | First United Methodist Church Evanston, 516 Church Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
Dr. Brian Schoettler presents an hour of organ music on FUMC Evanston’s 4-manual Austin pipe organ. The event is free and open to the public.

A Gift of Music
2024-03-25 14:00 - 15:00 | IL
James Russel Brown will be performing a solo organ recital on March 25th at Elliott Chapel.
It is a free concert open to the public. Please join in one of the concert series of “A Gift of Music”.

The Art of Continuo Playing with David Schrader
2024-04-21 15:00 - 17:00 | First United Methodist Church Evanston, 516 Church Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
April 21st at 3:00pm
David Schrader will do a reprise of the workshop that he presented at the Great Lakes Regional Convention on the Art of Continuo Playing.
This workshop will be held at The First United Methodist Church of Evanston and featuring their rather new continuo organ.

The Gift of Music (Organ Recital)
2024-04-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Elliott Chapel, 3131 Simpson Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
We are hosting the Organ Recital as part of A Gift of Music on April 22.
The Organist is David Troiano, a Music director, a tenor, and an organist from Detroit and he will be presenting music composed by J.S. Bach, E. Elgar and other American Composers.

Bach Week Festival: J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
2024-05-05 16:00 - 18:00 | St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 939 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60202, United States
Bach’s monumental Mass in B Minor will be the grand finale of the Evanston-based Bach Week Festival’s 50th anniversary and its farewell season.
“It’s truly been a half-century labor of love,” Richard Webster, the festival’s longtime music director, says. “And we’ll conclude this amazing journey with J. S. Bach’s final sacred masterpiece, the incomparable Mass in B Minor, amid joy and gratitude for all who have been part of Bach Week.”
Webster, a nationally prominent church musician, has been the festival’s music director and conductor since 1975.
He performed in and helped organize Evanston’s first Bach Week, May 5-12, 1974, during his senior year at Northwestern University’s School of Music, under his mentor, festival founder Karel Paukert. The latter was associate professor of organ and church music at NU and organist and choirmaster at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston, the festival’s first home.
Shortly after launching Bach Week, Paukert moved to the Cleveland, Ohio, area, where he has enjoyed a long and distinguished music career that continues to this day. He is expected to attend Bach Week’s final concert May 5 at St. Luke’s featuring Bach’s B-Minor Mass.
Artists performing in the B-Minor Mass are:
Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano
Kathleen Felty, soprano
Susan Platts, contralto
Geoffrey Agpalo, tenor
David Govertsen, bass
North Park University Chamber Singers
Bach Week Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Richard Webster, conductor
Jason Moy, organ

Vierne's Messe solennelle
2024-05-17 19:30 - 20:30 | First United Methodist Church Evanston, 516 Church Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
On Friday, May 17th, the Festival Choir of First United Methodist Church of Evanston presents a concert featuring two choral masterworks: Paul Winter’s “Earth Mass” and Louis Vierne’s “Messe solennelle.” The 7:30pm concert is free and open to the public.

Organ Concert - Matthew Doran, Organ
2024-05-19 15:00 - 16:00 | MADONNA DELLA STRADA CHAPEL, 1032 W Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL, 60660, United States
Works by Adolphus Hailstork, Dieterich Buxtehude, Johann Sebastian Bach, Marianne Kim, Olivier Messiaen, Ad Wammes, and Jean Sibelius

Annual End of Season Banquet 2024
2024-05-19 17:00 - 20:00 | Michigan Shores Club, 911 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette, IL, 60091, United States
Come and join your NSAGO colleagues for an evening of cocktails/social hour and an elegant buffet dinner with something for everyone in attendance!
Date: May 19, 2024
Cocktails at 5:00pmDinner at 6:00pm
Canterbury Room – Second Floor – View of Lake Michigan
Michigan Shores Club911 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois
Parking – complimentary valet parking
Cost: $40.00 per person
All spouses/partners/significant others/friends are welcome!

MENU
Appetizers – crab cakes/vegetable spring rolls/bacon wrapped shrimp
Salad – mixed greens, walnuts, apple, assorted berries, crispy brussel sprouts, chickpeas, farmers goat cheese, balsamic dressing
Entrée – chicken roulade, breast of chicken, garlic basil mousse, smashed roasted redpotato Brunoises, carrots, beans, red pepper, rutabaga and romesco sauceDessert – lemon cream crumb bars, seven layer bars, berry oat bites
Cash Bar on SiteMixed drinks $11.00 – Wine $10.00 – Beer $8.00No charge for soft drinks, tea and coffee

RSVP & PAY AT DOOR
RSVP by Noon Friday May 17

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The Gift of Music (Organ Recital)
2024-05-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Elliott Chapel, 3131 Simpson Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
Steven Schnurr will be presenting the organ recital, featuring some works by Ch. Widor, M. Reger, and L. Vierne.

A Gift of Music
2024-06-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Elliott Chapel, 3131 Simpson Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
Yun Kim, an active concert organist, will present works by J.S. Bach, Ian Farrington, and Marianne Kin and some transcriptions by Debussy and Rachmaninoff.

A Gift of Music
2024-06-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Elliott Chapel, 3131 Simpson Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
Yun Kim, an active concert organist, will present works by J.S. Bach, Iain Farrington, and Marianne Kim, as well as transcriptions of pieces by C. Debussy and S. Rachmaninoff. Please come and enjoy the final concert of the 2023-2024 season of A Gift of Music.

Cathedral Petit Concert
2024-09-08 11:45 - 12:15 | Holy Name Cathedral, 730 N. Wabash, Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
A short concert between our morning Masses in celebration of our 175th Parish Anniversary featuring various Cathedral musicians and friends of the Cathedral. Our first concert on September 8 presents Samuel Holmberg, Organist and Associate Director of Music of the Basilica of St. Mary, Minnesota, on the Flentrop organ.

Evensong & Installation Service
2024-09-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Kenilworth Union Church, 211 Kenilworth Avenue, Kenilworth, IL, 60043, United States
Kenilworth Union Church
211 Kenilworth Avenue, Kenilworth, IL 60043
Join us Sunday, Sep. 22 at 4:00pm for an Evensong and Installation Service at Kenilworth Union Church to kick off our 2024-2025 season programming! Lutkin’s setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis will be featured in the service and anyone interested in singing the canticles are invited to rehearse at 2:30pm before the service. During the service we will install our new officers and thank outgoing leaders. All are welcome!

A Gift of Music
2024-09-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Elliott Chapel, 3131 Simpson Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
The Gift of Music, 2024-2025, will resume at Elliott Chapel on Monday, September 23rd at 2 pm.
The Organist, Dr. Steven Wente, will be presenting music composed by J.S. Bach, D. Buxtehude. C, Rakich, and F. Mendelssohn.

Memorial Music Concert
2024-09-28 17:00 - 18:00 | Kenilworth Union Church, 211 Kenilworth Avenue, Kenilworth, IL, 60043, United States
The Memorial Concert will feature an organ, a tenor, and a Klesis Chamber Ensemble (Flute, violin, cello, and piano). The program will include works by J.S. Bach, Wilbur Held, and Undine Smith-Moore. Please feel free to join us and immerse yourself in the beautiful combinations of music at the church.

Choral Concert - Bella Voce
2024-10-05 16:00 - 18:00 | St. Chrysostom’s Church, 1424 N. Dearborn Parkway, Chicago, IL, 60610, United States
An all-a cappella program of sacred polyphony by new world peninsulares and composers indigenous to the Americas. Works by Vicente Lusitano, Francisco López Capillas, Cristóbal de Morales and more

Holy Name Cathedral Concert Series Organ Concert
2024-10-06 19:00 - 20:15 | Holy Name Cathedral, 730 N. Wabash, Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
Our 2024-2025 Cathedral Concert Series opening performance is featuring Nathan Laube, international Concert Organist and Associate Professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Music, playing on the Flentrop organ.
