 The National Officers of the Guild consist of a President, a Vice President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer who also serves as the Councillor for Finance and Development. 2008-2010
Note: The Chaplain is an honorary national officer and not a member of the National Council. “I am profoundly honored to become the chaplain to the AGO. All my life, I have attended churches where fine organists have helped to lead the congregation into prayer and a livelier sense of the Spirit through their musical artistry and the wonder of all the varied sounds coming from pipes of metal and wood. Also, I remember the organist of my home church when I was growing up in Cooperstown, N.Y. Not only did I relish his playing of preludes, hymns, anthems, service music, and postludes, but I also am thankful for how he encouraged my serious study of the flute, and often invited me to play in services in which he accompanied me at the organ as I played the music of Bach, Handel, Glück, Gounod, and others. And later in my professional life, it was organists who worked so creatively with me in planning sermons and services built around major works for organ and choir. All of this would have been impossible without them. Looking back over all of that music, I can see now that organists have been a major influence in my spiritual formation: the beauty of their playing has given me an ever-deepening and expanding vision of the beauty of God. Thus, I am praying that my being chaplain of the AGO may be a way of my repaying and thanking the great company of organists, as well as a way of encouraging them in their inspiring ministry and art.” |
The Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Troeger