Membership Matters

Monthly reports from the NSAGO registrar.

Membership Matters | January 2023

We welcome back Mary Beth Molenaar as a member of the North Shore Chapter AGO. Currently she is a member of the Winnetka Covenant Church in Winnetka and plays the piano in accompanying the church choir. As an organist previously in the Minneapolis area, she has served as a substitute organist at various churches in the Chicago area. Welcome back Mary Beth and we hope to see you at our future Chapter events!

Matthew Evan DuVall
Registrar

Membership Matters | November 2022

OLIVIER LATRY IN RECITAL

Friday, 4 November, 7:00 pm

Olivier Latry returns to Chicagoland this week for one of only three US performances during fall of 2022. Latry is titular organist at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame (Paris) and professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory. He appeared in recent years at Holy Name Cathedral (Chicago), but visits the North Shore village of Deerfield during this tour, for an evening-length recital at First Presbyterian.

For tickets ($25 per person) visit: https://firstpresbyterianchurchdf.regfox.com/olivier-latry-concert

WEBINAR INTRODUCES TABLETS AND forSCORE APP

Many musicians have embraced hand-held digital tablets to read music during practice and performance alike. A new one-hour AGO webinar describes the technology, its attractive features and trade-offs, and explains how to begin experimenting with forScore, the application that drives digital music notation and user interaction like page turns. Lindsey Johnson, a graduate student in organ at Arizona State University and member of the AGOYO committee, will release the introductory webinar on YouTube Monday, 7 November. Johnson developed a three-part video miniseries that explores additional nuances of forScore. These subsequent episodes follow on 14 and 21 November.

Matthew Evan DuVall
Registrar

Membership Matters | October 2022

We’d like to take a moment to welcome two new members to the chapter this month! 

Betsey Donegan and Diana Schmück, welcome to the North Shore Chapter!

All the best,

Rich

Membership Matters | September 2022

A very warm welcome back to the North Shore Chapter to Kay Sutton!  We’re glad you have rejoined us and look forward to seeing you soon!

If you have been on the fence to get your AGO Certification, now is the time. The new requirements have been posted. Click Here. If you would like to register for any of these, please Click Here and select the certification level you are looking to achieve. 

One final note, this will be my last Membership Matters article.  I’ll me concentrating on my Sub-Dean duties and working on meaningful programming for you all.  With that, I’d like to welcome Evan DuVall as the new chapter Registrar and look forward to reading his article each month!

All the best,

Rich

Membership Matters August 2022

This month we extend a warm welcome to new North Shore Member, Chuck Mize!  We’re glad you’re here and look forward to seeing you at one of our events in the fall.

Also from a membership perspective.  There are a lot of potential job opportunities out there.  Give the Job Listings section a view.  If you know of anyone looking for a job who may not be a member of the Guild, feel free to share the info with them and encourage them to join the guild!

All the best,

Rich

Membership Matters | June 2022

May was a pretty quiet month in membership, we didn’t have anyone join this month.  On the other hand we still have roughly 40 memberships that are up for renewal most of which will expire on July 1.  

Please take a look and see if you are up for renewal, you can do this via oncard. Simply go to https://agohq.org and click on Member Login in the upper right. Log in using your credentials, when the system logs in you will be taken to the oncard menu. You will see a welcome message and below that in bold will show your membership expiration date.  You can also email me and I can check for you.  

There is also one month left in the Year of the Young Organist initiative.  You have until June 30, to take advantage of a one year complimentary membership to the AGO.  If you know of any young organists, please steer them to this link: https://www.agohq.org/free-membership/ 

They should sign up or renew their membership here and not via the normal methods. If you have any questions, let me know.

Have a wonderful start to the summer months!

Rich

All the Best,

Rich Spantikow,
Registrar

Membership Matters | May 2022

This month we extend a warm welcome to Charlie Carpenter and Eva Lichtenstein.  Welcome to the North Shore Chapter.  We hope you’ll join us at our progressive recital and banquet on May 22nd!

Just a reminder approximately half our chapter is up for membership renewal between now and July 1st.  The bulk being July 1st.  You’ll start getting reminders from national to renew online.  If you are unsure of when your membership is up for renewal, please reach out and I will let you know.  Also, if you would rather send a paper renewal in with a check, that is fine as well.  Just let me know and I can print a paper invoice for you to mail in. 

All the Best,

Rich Spantikow,
Registrar

Membership Matters | April 2022

I’d like to extend a warm welcome to Bea Cuasay who joined our chapter this month,  She is a new AGO member and joined under the Young Organist Initiative.  Welcome Bea, we hope to see you at our banquet in May!

In keeping with the Year of the Young Organist theme, which runs through June 30, 2022. Be sure to invite your young organist friends (anyone under 30) to join the guild at no charge or to renew at no charge.  

The registration for this needs to be done online (not via the normal membership registration or renewal methods) and can be found here: https://www.agohq.org/free-membership/

Also, June 13-16 is the AGOYO Bach-a-thon. 89 young organists will perform the works of J.S. Bach. The event will be a video presentation and available on the AGO YouTube page, found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/GuildofOrganists

Full details on the Young Organist Initiative and the Bach-a-thon can be found here: 

AGO Young Organists

Happy Spring!

Rich Spantikow
Registrar/Membership Coordinator

Membership Matters | March 2022

This month we extend a warm welcome to two new members, David Bolthouse and Nicholas Renkosik!  Welcome to the North Shore Chapter, David!  We hope to see you at one of our upcoming events. 

As always if there is something you need assistance with regarding your membership, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Peace,
Rich

Rich Spantikow

Registrar/Membership Coordinator