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Volume 10, Issue 8 May 2013

Ins ide th is issue •Positions Available •Substitute List •Events Calendar •Much, much more!

The York Chapter of The American Gui ld of Organists Ser ving our community s ince 1935

Mission Statement

• To promote the organ in its historic and evolving roles

• To encourage excellence in the performance of organ and choral music

• To provide a forum for m u t u a l s u p p o r t , inspiration, education, and certification of members

O R G E L Z E I T

Member Performers: Wicky Barnes III Rodney Barnett Victor Fields Richard Frey Student Member Performers Layton Graves (auditioning for the Senior-level Harold R. Hunt Scholarship) Daniel Rothermel The recitalists will be performing on the church's new three-manual, forty-seven rank SDG pipe organ. The instrument pays homage in its tonal concept to the great French organbuilder Aristide Cavaille-Coll. Please enter the church via the rear lobby doors. Jon Noel, Host Organist

Volume 10 Issue 8 May 2013

DEAN’ S LETTER Now that Spring is in full blossom and we are seeing the days lengthen with extended daylight; we celebrate the end of the Easter season as we prepare for the season of Pentecost. While Pentecost is the longest season in the liturgical year and generally runs through the summer months, it can be a wonderful time to refresh, renew and catch up on work that was previously unaccomplished. For me, I am planning to begin a long-awaited project of continuing the efforts of my predecessor Christine Kates, that being, cataloging and updating the choral library at St. Paul’s Church. The vast collection of music is immense in terms of number of works. An outdated card-catalogue system sits idle. My first initiative will be to toss out “dated” music. The library includes music dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that no longer serves to communicate effectively the Gospel message. Generally, these scores were written by lesser known composers and tend to have texts that don’t reflect current liturgical trends. Timeless music by the great masters of Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras tend to always sound fresh and exciting hundreds of years after they have been written. “Quality ensures longevity” will be the motto I will follow to “weed” through hundreds of boxes, shelves and file cabinets full of music. This will be a labor of sight-reading and a labor of organizational coordination. The ultimate goal is to use the software program I-retrieval 5 for St. Paul’s choral library. I have lots of homework to start learning this database system. This project may take me many seasons to accomplish…….. Plan to attend our May 21 meeting to hear some of York and Hanover’s talent. Layton Graves will compete for the Senior Hunt scholarship.

Victor Fields

The Chaplain of the York Chapter. The Rev. Stanley Reep (St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, S. George St.) has agreed to continue to serve as chaplain. He is available to York Chapter members for any pastoral care issues and may be reached at the church #717-843-8155 or at home #717-840-2528.

USED MUSIC LIBRARY The AGO used music display is now organized and permanently available anytime in the music library at St. Matthew Lutheran Church by appointment. The music is available for a donation of $1 per copy and benefits the Harold R. Hunt and Theodore C. Herzel Scholarship Fund. The selection has just been updated and there is currently a great selection.


September 30, 6PM Dinner Social with Glen Rodgers, Region II Councilor, Hoss’s Steak & Seafood, West York

November 15, 2012 7:30 PM

Douglas Bruce (Basil, Switzerland) in concert, St Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church, 839 W. Market St. York

January 19, 2013 8:30AM -4:00PM

January Jump Start, Bryn Mawr, 625 Montgomery Ave, Bryn Mawr (see pages 1 and 8)

February 23, 2013 7:30 PM

Organ Concert with York Symphony Orchestra, Strand Theatre, York Saint-Saens Symphony #3 (Organ), Victor Fields, Organ Organist Tickets available at the Strand box office with 10% discount with the code AGOFEB13 (see page 2)

March No meeting

April 9, 2013 7:30PM

Music Sale/social and open console: French Symphonic Style organ St Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church, 839 W. Market St. York (see front page )

May 21, 2013 7:00PM

Student/member recital & Hunt Organ Scholarship Competition St Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church, 839 W. Market St. York

2012-2013 Programs

May 16, 7:00PM Training Choir of American Boy Choir, Advent Lutheran (see page 7)

June 7 7:30PM St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, St. Paul's Lutheran Church , 25 W. Springettsbury Avenue York, PA 17403 Free-will offering (see page 9)

May 19 4:00PM York Ecumenical Choral Society Spring Concert, Grace Lutheran Church, 220 N. Charles St., Red Lion, PA (see page 8)

May 17, 7:30PM Ken Cowan organ concert at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Chestertown, Maryland (see page 8)

May 5, 2:30PM GYMANFA GANU (Welsh singing festival) Rehoboth Welsh Church, Atom Road, Delta PA 17314 (see page 7)

May 4, 8:00PM Côr Bro Ogwr of Bridgend, South Wales — ‘Emmanuel’ and other Welsh Selections St. James Episcopal Church 119 North Duke Street, Lancaster, PA 17602 (see page 7)

May 19, 4:00PM Concert Saxophonist ASHU Trinity Lutheran Church * 2000 Chestnut St., Camp Hill PA 17011 (see page 14)


Elise Fasnacht 717-252-4820 synch182gmail.com

Jan Frey 717-846-6485 [email protected]

Layton Graves 717-630-8680 [email protected]

Beth Gross 717-767-4518 Cell: 717-873-7688

[email protected]

Cheryl Huber 717-840-9707 [email protected]

Christine Kates 717-741-9534 [email protected]

Marie Melusky 717-292-5758 [email protected]

Suzy Reimold 717-846-4408 [email protected]

R. Wayne Grauel Cell: 410-804-8407

[email protected] (only York, Gettysburg, Cham-bersburg, and Hanover areas)

Richard Frey Cell: (717) 476-3226

[email protected]

Karl Mincemoyer (After June 1)

717-817-4802. Cell

[email protected]

S U B S T I T U E O R G A N I S T S A V A I L A B L E

Subject: Membership Directory corrections Delete Mike Bowman from Executive Board Add Wicky Barnes to Executive Board - term ends 2015 Email Change: Ruth Ann Burke to: [email protected] Address Corrections: Jerrod Coates x-17 Jeffrey Cogan - 4075 Linglestown Rd. Victor Fields - Lake Circle Scott Fredericks -church zip 17331-8835 Jeremy Zuck Calvert St.


P O S I T I O N S A V A I L A B L E

Church organist/music director Zion Lutheran Church, Glen Rock, PA. Please contact Church Office at 717-235-3276 for additional information.

Organist Madison Ave. Church of the Brethren in York is looking for an organist. Contact Carol Kauffman @ 292-7947 (evenings).

Part-time Organist Position Available First United Methodist Church of Hanover is seeking to fill a part-time position for a church organist.

This position involves providing organ selections, accompanying hymns, and accompanying adult choirs for two Sunday morning worship services. This organist will have the privilege of performing on our pipe organ which underwent an extensive rebuild in 2008 by the renowned Peragallo Organ Company. Complete upgrades include increasing the number of solo voices on the organ, strengthening the power of the pedals, and expanding the organ’s capabilities to 17 ½ ranks with a new MIDI electronic system for a total of 1056 speaking voices. This keyboardist will also accompany the adult choirs for one rehearsal per week. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Please submit resume to: First United Methodist Church, c/o Mr. Randy Culp, Staff Parish Relations Committee, 200 Frederick Street, Hanover, PA 17331, or call (717) 637-1574. E-mails may be submitted to the Church office at: [email protected].

Piano needs a good home The piano is a Wurlitzer. I can't believe but it must be 55 years old. The piano is in tune and the keys and body are in excellent shape. I just would like to find someone student who needs a piano. If you know of anyone I would love to give it to them. Linda S. Lopez 19 N. Russell Street York, PA 17402*


VOLUNTEER(S)_ NEEDED!

Sally Harbold needs volunteer organists/pianists to play for Sunday afternoon services at Sprenkle Village (1:45 pm) and the Lutheran Home at Kelly Drive (3 pm). [Both are north side of York.] The service at Sprenkle requires a prelude and postlude, hymns are played during com-munion, on a clavinova. Kelly's service includes a full liturgy with communion, played on the organ or the piano, your choice. The chaplain at both services is a retired Army chaplain, has a wonderful sense of humor, and short/to-the-point sermons. You may play either one or both services, once/month or once/every other month, or whenever it fits your schedule. Sally would be most grateful to hear from you, at [email protected]

Organ for sale This Hammond 1993 725 Chapel organ located at the Eberly Funeral Home in Dallastown is for sale. Organ in good playing condition (Victor inspected it!) Contact: Steve Miller 717.515.6267 Best offer


Visiting Choir Event Advent Lutheran The Training Choir of the American Boy Choir of Princeton, NJ will present a program at Advent Lutheran Church May 16 at 7:00 PM The training choir is directed by Fred Meads, Jr., son of our esteemed member, Fred Meads. Advent Lutheran church address is 1725 E. Market St, York. (near the I-83/Market St interchange.)

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Highlights from

Welsh-American composer Dr. Joseph Parry's oratorio ‘Emmanuel’

and a presentation of favorite Welsh selections by 80 mixed voices Côr Bro Ogwr of Bridgend, South Wales Edward-Rhys Harry, conductor

& Côr Cymraeg Rehoboth of Delta, Pennsylvania David Tramontana, conductor

Soloists from Baltimore, Lancaster & Washington Opera Soprano Sabrina Coleman-Clark, Alto Kyle Engler

Tenor William Clark, Baritone Colin Brady Johnson 8 p.m., Saturday, May 4, 2013 St. James Episcopal Church

119 North Duke Street, Lancaster, PA 17602 $10 donation at the door

GYMANFA GANU (Welsh singing festival)

Rehoboth Welsh Church, Atom Road, Delta PA 17314 2:30 p.m., Sunday, May 5, 2013

Edward-Rhys Harry, Conducting - Special Music Côr Bro Ogwr For further information call 717-456-7379 or [email protected]

PRESENTED IN PART BY A GRANT FROM THE EXCELON CORPORATION


The York Ecumenical Choral Society is presenting its annual Spring Concert on Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. The Spring Concert, “Evening Service in the Lutheran Tradition”, will be held at Grace Lutheran Church in Red Lion. The Choral Society was founded by Dr. Gene Paul Strayer to promote fine choral works from the Protestant, Western Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. The Choral Society is directed by Rodney Barnett who is the Organist/Choir Director of St. John Episcopal. The organist will be Wicky Barnes, III who is the Director of Music of St. Andrew’s Episcopal. Grace Lutheran is located at 220 N. Charles St. Red Lion, Pa. 17356. For more information please contact Rodney at 244-5020 or by email: [email protected].

Emmanuel Concert Series Ken Cowan will perform an organ concert at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Chestertown, Maryland on 17 May at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for children and students and are available at the door. Emmanuel Episcopal Church is located at 101 North Cross Street in Chestertown. For more information please call the church office at 410 778 3477 from 9 to 1 on Mondays through Fridays. Ken is currently Associate Professor and head of the organ program at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas. He needs no further introduction to organists in the United States. “It is difficult to find enough adjectives to describe Ken Cowan’s playing. He is simply one of the best anywhere!” The Diapason

Westminster Concert Bell Choir Performs in York on June 7 The Westminster Concert Bell Choir, conducted by Kathleen Ebling Shaw, will perform at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in York on Friday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m. A suggested donation of $10 will be taken at the door. The program features original compositions and arrangements of familiar works for handbells including a transcription of J.S. Bach’s Fugue In G Minor, Johannes Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5, and the traditional Irish folk song Londonderry Air. The ensemble will also perform contemporary works including Erroll Garner’s Misty and Paul Desmond’s Take Five. The Westminster Concert Bell Choir performs on the world’s largest range of handbells: 8 octaves. The ensemble has appeared on Public Television’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and several holiday broadcasts of the Today show. Most recently, it performed with singer Josh Groban in NBC’s nationally televised lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Conductor Kathleen Ebling Shaw is a member of the faculty at Westminster Choir College, where she is teaches handbell training and conducts a second handbell choir. Well known internationally as a handbell clinician, she is also director of music at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Doylestown, Pa. St. Paul's Lutheran Church is located at 25 West Springettsbury Avenue in Las York, Pa. For more information call 717-843-8155 or go to www.stpaulsyork.org. This event is co-hosted by the Unitarian/Universalist Congregation of York.


All details, schedule, locations, etc…. at 2013agoreg3convention.com

NOTE: Early Registration Deadline has been extended to MAY 1


More information: [email protected] 214-577-2017


Interesting Organ Tour Justin Nimmo sent us this link to a very interesting YouTube video of Martin Ellis playing and giving a tour of the WurliTzer in the Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis. You may remember that Justin played for SVTOS in June 2012, and he works for Carlton Smith who restored and installed the instruments. This is one of the organs that will be featured during the 2014 ATOS Convention in Indianapolis. (Starts with the Saint– Saens Organ Concerto) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNh7_8AWwoc&feature=em-share_video_user

Ashu, concert saxophonist May 19, 2013 at 4PM * Free Admission Trinity Lutheran Church * 2000 Chestnut St., Camp Hill PA 17011 * 717-737-8635 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEHxwsh16s&feature=player_detailpage#t=53s Concert saxophonist Ashu, age 26, has continually defied conventions winning major international and national competitions traditionally won by pianists and violinists. He has performed throughout the world as recitalist and concerto soloist and has begun to bring the concert saxophone to a broader audience. Ashu made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in New York and, at age 16, made his concerto debut at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Since then, performances have taken him throughout the USA and Europe, including such locations as Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Portugal, and the West Indies. With a dynamic style that captivates audiences, and with a repertoire ranging from original soprano and alto saxophone works by Debussy, Ibert, and Villa-Lobos to his own arrangements of Morricone, Rachmaninoff, and Piazzolla, Ashu has shown that the concert saxophone can reach beyond stylistic categorization and to a large diversity of people. His playing has been described as “Riveting...Brilliant...Pizzazz to burn!” (Miles Hoffman, National Public Radio Performance Today commentator) and “...just as much fun to watch him as it is to listen to him.” (Anshel Brusilow, Dallas Morning News). Born and raised in California, Ashu began playing the saxophone at age 10. His love for performing quickly became apparent and he began entering various competitions. Ashu has won First Prizes at the International Heida Hermanns Competition, International Kingsville Wind Instrumentalist Competition, National Federation of Music Clubs Competition, National Midland-Odessa Competition, National Lennox/RSO Competition, National George S. Howard Competition, and National Alliance for Excellence Competition. In addition, he has been overall winner of the Houston Symphony, Keweenaw Symphony, Skokie Valley Symphony, and Northwestern University Concerto Competitions. Others awards include overall winner of the American Opera Society Competition, First Prize winner of the WAFA Concerto Competition, winner of the Interlochen Governor’s Scholarship, and Grand Prize winner of the Houston Symphony Flores-Smith Competition. Ashu has toured as concerto soloist with symphony orchestras throughout the world (Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, etc.) and has been presented on numerous prestigious recital series, with recent venues including the Vienna Konzerthaus and Kravis Center. Upcoming engagements include concert tours and performances at music festivals throughout Europe, New Zealand, Australia, the Baltic, and the USA. Ashu received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in saxophone performance from Northwestern University and is currently based in the Chicago area. For more information on Ashu, please visit his website at www.ashuonline.com.


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Send inquires and correspondence to York Chapter, AGO Attn: Victor Fields P. O. Box 51 York, PA 17405-0051

The York Chapter of The American Guild of Organists

Executive Board 2010-2013 Cheryl Huber Donna Snyder 2011-2014 Jonathan Noel Kenneth Sanders 2012-2015 Ronald Calhoun Wicky Barnes Computer Resource Rodney Barnett 244-5020 [email protected] Publicity & Archivist Victor Fields 858-4982 [email protected]

Victor Fields, Dean 858-4982 [email protected] Carolyn Smith, Sub-dean 410-374-8311 [email protected] Secretary Ian Shoff [email protected] Treasurer/Registrar Byron Daudelin [email protected] Membership Committee Chair Rodney Barnett 244-5020 [email protected] Chaplain Rev. Stanley Reep, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church,

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