Our Artist-of-the-Year, Karen Miller, will present a recital at the Stowe
Community Church on May 4 at 4 p.m. This will be followed by a reception and our
Vermont AGO Chapter annual meeting. Then, those wishing to dine in the Stowe area
before traveling home are welcome to join other Vermont AGO members for dinner at a
local eatery.
The Stowe Community Church is the large white church on Main Street. Parking
is on the street or on side streets close by or at the recreational path parking lot
behind the church.
The membership of the Vermont Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
recently completed balloting for a new slate of officers. Twenty-five ballots were
tallied and the support of the offered candidates was unanimous with no write-in
alternatives suggested.
Included in this newsletter is your new membership renewal form to fill out
and send to Treasurer Alan Walker by August 15. One way to ensure that you are
timely in completing this assignment is to fill it out now and send it in before the
summer is upon us. At the bottom of this form is a line to address substitute
status. If you can be a substitute, please indicate your availability. The Chapter
needs to update its substitute list, and our membership forms will help facilitate
that process. Then we can let members known who is available to help cover
services.
On Sunday, April 6 at 4 p.m., Lynnette Combs gave a well-received recital of
organ music by French composers at the Stowe Community Church in Stowe. She
performed works by Jehan Alain, Vierne, Messiaen and others. Admission was by
donation. This recital will also be given in Barre on May 25 and in Bennington on
June 1. For more information, contact Lynnette at (802) 426-3850.
The Freelance Family Singers, the Woodstock area community chorus, will hold
its 30th Anniversary celebration concerts on Saturday, May 3 at 7 p.m. and Sunday,
May 4 at 3 p.m. in the First Congregational Church, Elm Street, Woodstock. These
concerts will include music for the full chorus, a guest appearance by the
University Chorus of the Upper Valley, and performances by vocal and instrumental
ensembles. The concerts are free with donations of non-perishable items for the
community Food Shelf suggested; refreshments will be served. The director of
Freelance is Ellen Satterthwaite. Please call her at (802) 457-3980.
Stowe Performing Arts presents its Noon Music in May concert series at the
Stowe Community Church each Wednesday at 12 noon. This series is a delightful
diversion from the otherwise dreary mud season and the concerts are free! The
church is on the north side of Main Street in Stowe Village and is handicapped-
accessible. Everyone who attends the Noon Music in May concerts will receive a
coupon for 20% off lunch at The Whip Restaurant. The events scheduled are:
May 7 Eugene Barban -- A pianist who has received world-wide recognition for
his musicianship and technical brilliance, Dr. Barban's program heralds
the arrival of spring with a section entitled, "The Aviary" with birds
in the titles. He will also play music of Liszt, Barber, and Glinka,
and others. (This recital will also be offered that evening at 8:00
p.m. with the addition of Debussy Preludes.)
May 14 Global Winds Project -- This is a wind quintet based in Vermont that
plays an adventurous repertoire of music ranging from classical to
ragtime, jazz and Latin melodies. GWP takes audiences on a musical
journey that is alternately traditional and whimsical. GWP performs
throughout Vermont, but takes its musical inspiration from around the
world.
May 21 John Weaver -- One of the America's finest concert organists, John
Weaver will perform a program entitled, "Three Centuries of organ
Fireworks!" Dr. Weaver was Director of Music at Madison Avenue
Presbyterian Church in New York City from 1970-2005; Head of the organ
Department at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 1972-
2003; and Chair of the Organ Department at The Julliard School from
1987-2004. Fortunately for us, he has retired to Vermont!
May 28 Winterstein/Zaretsky Duo, Violin and Piano -- The Winterstein/Zaretsky
Duo will perform Beethoven Violin Sonatas, including the famous Kreutzer
Sonata. Katherine Winterstein is concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony,
was assistant concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and has
been a member of the Boston Lyric Opera and the Breckenridge Music
Institute Orchestra. Currently, she is a member of the music faculty at
Middlebury College in Vermont. Russian born Inessa Zaretsky is known
worldwide for her 'masterful and passionate" piano performances (Moscow
Times) and for her "free-ranging and thoroughly wrought" compositions
(New York Times). Ms. Zaretsky is on the Piano faculty of Mannes
College in New York, Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina
and Summertrios Music Festival in Pennsylvania.
On Saturday, May 31 (Grace Church, Rutland will present Paul Winter's Missa
Gaia. The performance will be a collaboration between the Rutland Area Chorus and
Maris Wolff's VT Dance Collective, and directed by Rip Jackson. Integrating world
music with songs from the wild to celebrate the whole earth as a sacred space, the
MISSA GAIA was commissioned by the Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as a
contemporary ecumenical Mass. Paul Winter has "achieved a distinguished triumph in
combining divergent music styles and imaginatively wedding voices, instrumentation
and recorded sounds of a tundra wolf, canyon and musical wrens, harp seals, a flight
of loons and singing humpback whales." The Eco-mission group will be running an
Earth Fair in Fellowship Hall before and after the performance. Both local and
national Earth Stewardship related groups will have displays up to inform the public
about important eco-related issues. Tickets will be on sale through the office at
Grace Church beginning April 28. Tickets are $15.00 for adults, $10.00 for students
and senior citizens. Reduced ticket prices are available. For more information,
please call the church office, (802) 775-4301. Office hours are Monday-Friday,
8-4:30.
The Essex Community Concert Committee, Essex, New York, has announced its
summer concert series and includes the following organ concerts:
The Charlotte Congregational Church, UCC, seeks a Music Director who
preferably is also an organist. Working closely with our Pastor, candidates must be
able to select and direct music for a small but talented adult choir, a variety of
instrumentalists, and to work with the director of the Junior (young people's)
choir. Prefer that candidates be well grounded in playing/directing music of the
classic masters, as well as contemporary forms. Position is for full year,
approximately 1/4 - 1/3 time. Salary and vacation time negotiable. Position will
be open in mid-June 2008. Persons interested in this position should reply to the
church office at (802) 425-3176 or by e-mail at
charlotteucc@gmavt.net. The organ is
a two manual, tubular pneumatic action instrument built by Estey in 1925.
Ascension Lutheran Church needs an organist to play the organ and/or keyboard
at all regular church services and special services and oversee organ maintenance.
The successful candidate would be a Lutheran or one who is willing to learn the
Lutheran traditions and liturgy. The church organist is responsible to Pastor Nancy
Wright with oversight from the Worship and Music Committee. Please contact the
pastor at the church. The phone number is (802) 862-8866 and e-mail is:
revnancywright@earthlink.net
Community Lutheran Church in South Burlington, a liturgical congregation,
seeks an organist to play traditional and more recent music and direct the adult
choir three Sundays per month plus seasonal services. The church's organ, a
Praeludium II by Galanti, has tracker action. Request for a job description may be
obtained by phone (802-864-5537) or e-mail (clcvt@corwast.net).
Send a resume to the Community Lutheran Church, 1560 Williston Road, South Burlington, VT 05403.
An organist is needed for the West Lebanon Congregational Church, West
Lebanon, New Hampshire. The organist accompanies the choir (but does not direct the
choir). There is one Sunday, 10:00 a.m., service with choir rehearsal at 8:30 a.m.
There is no mid-week choir rehearsal. It is a two manual tracker organ, that was
fully re-conditioned in 2000. Salary negotiable. Please contact Traci Ladue at
(603) 448-1364.
St. James Episcopal Church in Laconia, NH is searching for a new musician to
lead the church's music ministry. The church was founded in 1862 and currently has
120 families/individuals in its membership. Their music director position includes
playing for Sunday services, directing one adult choir (September through June), and
playing for some holiday and Holy Week services. Salary is $6,000. They are
seeking a musician who can empower both the choir and congregation to sing, explore,
and enjoy music in the Episcopal/Anglican tradition. If interested, please contact
Reverend Hank Junkin, St. James Episcopal Church by church phone (603-524-5800) or
cell phone (603-491-3403).
The deadline for the June issue of Pipe Notes will be May 20. If you have
summer events to share, please send them to your newsletter editor soon so others
can enjoy the events in your area, too.
Vermont Chapter Artist-of-the-Year Recital and Annual Meeting