Recent Event Reviews
The North Shore Chapter of the American Guild of Organists holds or sponsors many events throughout the year. Check this page frequently for reviews of our most recent event. For our archive of reviews of past events, click here.
Recent Event Review: March 2023 Members Concert
North Shore Chapter of the American Guild of OrganistsMembers Recital: Lenten Favorites A Review by Derek Nickels The cold and gloomy weather on Sunday, March 26, 2023 didn’t detract an appreciative audience from enjoying a Members Recital of Lenten Favorites at St....
Recent Event Review: 2023 Epiphany Party
A Happy New Year begins at the annual Epiphany Party! Our sincere thanks go to the Handleys, Andrea, David, and their daughter Rachel, for welcoming North Shore Chapter members into their beautiful Evanston home on Friday night, January 6, for what has become an...
Recent Event Review: Combined Organ Tour
Saturday, November 19, 2022 Members of NorthShore Chapter AGO and The Chicago-Midwest chapter of the Organ Historical Society enjoyed visiting four churches in Glencoe and Winnetka on a cold recent Saturday. We were warmly welcomed by Organists at each church who...
Recent Event Review: Progressive Organ Recital
Thank you to all the artists who played and the Churches who hosted our program on May 22nd. This was a wonderful program that was well attended. The Church of the Holy Spirit was our first host church where Jay Peterson was organist. The First Presbyterian...
Recent NSAGO Events: Colin Andrews plays Olivier Messiaen
An enthusiastic audience gathered at Madonna della Strada Chapel at Loyola University last Friday to hear organist Colin Andrews play Olivier Messiaen’s monumental Livre du Saint Sacrement. This piece is a seldom-performed, eighteen-movement masterwork that Messiaen...
125 Anniversary Celebration Event Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg5wPkH8vdc “Celebrating American Guild of Organists 125th Anniversary Past and Present” on Sunday afternoon, November 14 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Wilmette was a remarkably successful and inspiring event! A short video by...
Recent Event Review: Eric Plutz Plays Vierne
On October 8th organist Eric Plutz presented an all-Vierne concert at First United Methodist Church in Evanston, Illinois. The concert, held on Vierne’s 151st birthday, included symphonies 2 and 6 as well as two of the “Pièces de Fantaisie,” Op. 53. Plutz prepared...
Recent Events: Potluck Picnic on Sept. 4th, Labor Day Weekend
If you missed this wonderful gathering of friends, maybe you can join your chapter members next year at the picnic. Even the rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of the participants.
Recent NSAGO Event Review
Review of Recent NSAGO Event: Lenten Virtual Recital
Review of Lenten-themed Organ Recital Friday 2/26/21, 7:30pm On Friday, February 26 our chapter held a Lenten Members’ Recital on Zoom. Organist Brian Schoettler played a new work titled “Elegy for the Time of Change” by Robert Harris. The composer, who was in...