Countryside Community Church Omaha, Nebraska Buzard Pipe Organ Builders Champaign, Illinois Stoplist By John-Paul Buzard   Countryside Community Church is the Christian participant in the new Tri-Faith Initiative, a campus that includes the church, a mosque, and a synagogue. Congregations from the three Abrahamic faiths bought a large tract of land and developed it together […] The post February 2022 TAO Feature Article first appeared on American Guild of Organists ..read more

  A lot has happened over the past two years that has radically impacted your board’s leadership capabilities. This conference will focus on revisiting your current board structure and identifying opportunities to help you work smarter — not harder!  Each night there will be multiple opportunities for peer-to-peer networking, that will address every facet of […] The post Leadership 2022 first appeared on American Guild of Organists ..read more

The American Guild of Organists is celebrating the Year of the Young Organist, launching an exciting three-year strategic plan, providing more educational opportunities than ever before through both online and in-person programming, and offering scholarship programs from high school through graduate studies. Celebrate the 125th anniversary of the AGO on December 17 by making a […] The post Giving Day 2021 first appeared on American Guild of Organists ..read more

December 17, 2021, is the 125th anniversary of the American Guild of Organists! Chartered as an educational organization on December 17, 1896, the American Guild of Organists has become the world’s largest organization dedicated to organ and choral music. A Brief History of the AGO The American Guild of Organists was founded in New York […] The post Happy 125th Birthday AGO! first appeared on American Guild of Organists ..read more

St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church Erie, Pennsylvania Heritage Pipe Organs Inc. Buffalo, New York Stoplist By Charlie Porter St. Patrick Church on 4th Street near the Bayfront is the oldest Catholic parish in Erie, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1837, the church began construction in 1903 and the first Mass was celebrated on Christmas Day of 1906. […] The post December 2021 TAO Feature Article first appeared on American Guild of Organists ..read more

James E. Thomashower, executive director of the AGO, has received the Distinguished Service Award of the New York Society of Association Executives. The award recognizes outstanding committee service demonstrating team leadership as a chair, vice chair, participant, or liaison as a contributing member of one or more NYSAE committees that promote the purposes of the […] The post James Thomashower Honored by NYSAE first appeared on American Guild of Organists ..read more

The Pieter J. Schiller Memorial Pipe Organ St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church Chatham, Massachusetts Dobson Pipe Organ Builders Lake City, Iowa By John Panning Stoplist What could be easier than designing a two-manual church organ? Such instruments have been the organbuilder’s bread and butter, the most common configuration of pipe organs, found in churches the world […] The post November 2021 TAO Feature Article first appeared on American Guild of Organists ..read more

The St. Cecilia Organ Church of the Transfiguration Community of Jesus, Orleans, Massachusetts If we all embrace a new vision, special guidance and support will surely come. –NELSON BARDEN By Nelson Barden and Jim Jordan On Monday, May 15, 1995, at 10:56 p.m., a fax from Nelson Barden (president, Nelson Barden & Associates, restorer in […] The post October 2021 TAO Feature Article first appeared on American Guild of Organists ..read more