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The Dulciana
Newsletter of the Chemung Valley Chapter
Of The American Guild of Organists
May 2022
Newsletter Editor’s Message:
Happy May Day Everyone !!
Memorial Day is just around the corner. I just wish it would warm up.
Our Member’s Recital at Grace went very. Thank you so much to Performers David Mix, David Jackson, Julia Peckham, Reg Piatt, Carrie Hooper and Dan LaBar. We enjoyed a nice Dinner at Olive Garden afterwards. Our 2nd Event for the spring will be an Organ Recital by Amanda Mole on May 22, 2022 @ 4 pm. It will be at The Park Church 208 W, Gray Street Elmira, NY. We are Co-Sponsoring this with the Binghamton Chapter. Her Picture and Biography are elsewhere in the Newsletter.
Watch your mail and email for News about our Summer Picnic to be held in August @ Dan’s.
Many Blessings,
Beth Briggs
Happy Easter Everyone!
March has been a busy month for me. My Siblings & In-Laws visited last week and we had a good time. .
We are having 2 upcoming Spring Events. The first of which is our Annual Members Recital it will be Sunday April 24, 2022 @ 4 pm @ Grace Episcopal Church 375 W. Church Street Elmira, NY. We may need to wear masks and may have to Social Distance. If you are playing in the recital please let Dan LaBar knoe your selection by Sunday April 10, 2022. We may decide to go out to Dinner afterwards. Our 2nd Event for the spring will be an Organ Recital by Amanda Mole on May 22, 2022 @ 4 pm. It will be at The Park Church 208 W, Gray Street Elmira, NY. We are Co-Sponsoring this with the Binghamton Chapter. Her Picture and Biography are elsewhere in the Newsletter.
Many Blessings,
Beth Briggs
Chapter Events:
5/22/2022: Organ Recital by Amanda Mole The Park Church
208 W. Gray St. Elmira, NY 4 pm. Co-Sponsored by The
Binghamton AGO Chapter A Free Will Offering
will be taken. Picture and Biography are elsewhere in this
Newsletter.
Amanda Mole
Biography
Hailed as a rising star, Amanda Mole is quickly earning a reputation as one of the leading concert organists of her generation. Her performances have been described as “elegant, lucid” (The American Organist), and having an “excellent balance of technical accuracy, rhythm, and structure” (The Diapason).
Amanda is the first-prize winner of the 8th International Musashino-Tokyo Organ Competition (2017), one of the largest and most prestigious organ competitions in the world. She is the first-place and audience prize winner of the Miami International Organ Competition (2016), and the first-place winner of the Arthur Poister Organ Competition (2014), the John Rodland Memorial Organ Competition (2014), and the Peter B. Knock Award (2014). Since 2017, she has served as a juror for live and preliminary rounds for several organ competitions and, in 2016, Amanda was chosen as one of The Diapason magazine’s Top 20 Under 30, a feature that selects some of the most successful young artists in the field. She is grateful recipient of several merit-based scholarships including the M. Louise Miller, the American Baptist, the National Religious Music Week, and the Susan Glover Hitchcock Scholarships.
Amanda has performed internationally at venues across the USA, Europe, and Japan. She was a featured performer at the 2015 New Haven Regional American Guild of Organists Convention and, in 2016 and 2018, she joined the roster of concert artists at the Organ Historical Society Convention and received unanimous glowing reviews in The American Organist, The Diapason, and The Tracker magazines, praising her fine technique, mature musicality and hailing her as a rising “star” who plays “with authority and flair.” In 2020, Amanda was a featured artist at the AGO National Organ Fest, where she premiered a new piece for the convention. Next summer, she will perform at the AGO National Convention in Seattle, WA. She is frequently broadcast on the radio show Pipedreams LIVE! and has recorded a CD that was released in 2019 on Naxos, the largest classical music label in the world. Shortly thereafter in 2020, Amanda released a collaborative CD of music for trombone and organ with RPO trombonist Lisa Albrecht and the Hohenfels trombone quartet.
Ms. Mole is from Holden, Massachusetts, and is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree as a student of David Higgs at the Eastman School of Music. In 2011, Amanda graduated from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the School of Music with a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance and Sacred Music. During her time at Yale, Amanda studied organ with Martin Jean and Choral Conducting with Maggie Brooks, and was the only candidate in her class to receive the Church Music Studies Certificate for additional sacred music and theological studies. Prior to Yale, she obtained a Bachelor of Music degree with honors at Eastman while studying with William Porter, and, prior to Eastman, she studied with Larry Schipull and Patricia Snyder. Amanda has also completed the requirements for a minor in Choral Conducting during her doctorate. In January 2021, Amanda was appointed Principal Organist and Assistant Director of Music at St. Joseph Catholic Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio. She is represented in North American by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc.
Rev September 2021
Program – Amanda Mole, organ
The Park Church, Elmira, New York
May 22, 2022
D Major Prelude and Fugue, BWV 532 Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Deuxième Fantaisie Jehan Alain
(1911-1940)
The Revd Mustard his Installation Prelude Nico Muhly
(b. 1981)
from Five Dances for Organ Calvin Hampton
- The Primitives (1938-1984)
- At the ballet
- Everyone dance
from L’Ascension Olivier Messiaen
Alléluias sereins d’une âme qui désire le ciel (1908-1992)
from Trois préludes hambourgeois Guy Bovet
- Salamanca (b. 1942)
from Sonata No. 8 Josef Rheinberger
Introduction and Passacaglia (1839-1901)
EXCLUSIVE MANAGEMENT: Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc.
www.concertorganists.com
From Carrie Hooper:
Music Lessons
Piano lessons-Remote-or in person or at Park Church in Elmira
Voice lessons “ ”
Learn a Foreign Language.
Private language lessons-Remote or in person at Park Church in Elmira
German Swedish
Italian Albanian
Spanish Romanian
Translation and Interpretation Services Available
for above languages.
Please contact Carrie Hooper, Instructor
PH: 607-732-6788, E-mail: DAVELEN@epix.net
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From Carrie Hooper:
Hello. My name is Carrie Hooper and I offer private voice and piano lessons. I could teach Monday through Friday morning or afternoon, even Saturday if necessary. I could also offer private language lessons in German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Albanian, or Romanian to anyone interested. For more information please contact Carrie Hooper at 607-732-6788.
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Beth Briggs email or 607-377-5363
Dan LaBar: email: Dan LaBar or 607-846-8411
David Lenington: email
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Organist Needed:
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From Carrie Hooper:
Hello. My name is Carrie Hooper and I offer private voice and piano lessons. I could teach Monday through Friday morning or afternoon, even Saturday if necessary. I could also offer private language lessons in German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Albanian, or Romanian to anyone interested. For more information please contact Carrie Hooper at 607-732-6788.
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New Dues Rates
AGO National has established the following dues rates for the upcoming 2017-18 year.
Regular member $105
Special member $ 80
Young Organist $ 50
Local membership will remain the same.
Chapter Friend $ 20
The new rates will appear on the April 1 renewal notices that AGO Headquarters will send to current chapter members renewing for the 2015-2016 membership year.
Newsletter:
Membership:
For Information on joining our chapter please contact:
David Lenington, Treasurer Chemung Valley AGO Chapter
211 Laning Creek Road
Towanda,PA 18848
(570-268-5035)
Email
Placement:
The First Presbyterian Church of Big Flats,NY is accepting applications for the position of Director of Music.
The Director of Music is to provide professional services as organist and director of the adult choir.
to be within the general standards set by the American Guild of Organists.
The church’s priorities in music are as follows:
A. Music to be provided every Sunday for the worship service.
B. A variety of appropriate music should be incorporated both in the service music and the choir repertoire.
C. As closely as possible, unity of the message of the music and message of the word should occur in each service.
D. During the summer when the choir does not perform, the Director of Music is encouraged to schedule special music for the worship service. This can be solicited from “in-house” or from the “outside.”
E. It is expected that the music will be well performed.
The service will involve personal preparation (practice) and conducting and accompanying regular choir rehearsals, which presently occur at 9:15 am on Sunday morning. Morning worship is conducted at 10:30 am and at such other times as shall be set by the church Session (ie. Christmas Eve, Maundy Thursday, etc.). Regular choir rehearsals are held from September through June. The choir does not perform during the summer. (Summer services are held at 9:30).
The Director of Music is also in charge of arranging for the tuning and other regular maintenance of the keyboard instruments including an Allen Electronic Organ.
The services of the Director of Music are occasionally needed for funerals, weddings, etc.
Compensation will be based on ability and experience and is negotiable.
If interested, you are encouraged to submit a current resume with your name, address, address and phone number to:
The Search Committee
5 Suburban Drive
Elmira, New York 14903
562-3903
Employers and job seekers are invited to post and search listings of available positions on the Guild’s National Website.
Certification
Contact Us
Chapter Officers
Dean:
Daniel LaBar (Home 607-846-8411) or Email
Treasurer:
David Lenington Email or (570-268-5035)
Secretary:
Elizabeth Briggs
607-377-5363 or Email
