Presented by: Eileen Hunt, DMA, AAGO, Vice President & Councillor for Competitions and New Music, and Vicki Schaeffer, DMus, Chair of the Board of Regional Councillors, and panel. Location: Hyatt Regency - Kennesaw The presenters will moderate an intergenerational panel of female AGO members who will engage attendees in a lively discussion of issues which touch all of us in our professional lives.
Read MorePresented by: Russell Weismann Location: Hyatt Regency - Kennesaw North American organ culture represents a kaleidoscopic existence of borrowed European traits with dependence on German organ building, heretofore holding the longest tenure in the identity of the American pipe organ. German influence in North American organ building began with the eighteenth-century instruments of David Tannenberg and have most recently concluded with the twentieth-century instruments of Rudolf von Beckerath. Between celebrated Tannenberg and Beckerath instruments are the unique installations of the…
Read MorePresented by: Erin Scheessele, PhD, Orgelkids USA Location: Kennesaw Orgelkids is a powerful tool for engaging the public with the King of Instruments by building a working organ. Your AGO chapter can bring Orgelkids to your community, explore how Orgelkids fits into AGO’s existing outreach curriculum, and examine how you can curate the Orgelkids kit as a regional resource for use well beyond typical AGO programming. Subsequently, you will be empowered to harness this innovative resource to capture the imagination…
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