Past Waterbury AGO Events

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Date Event Description
Jan 16th 2012
Monday
at 5:00 PM		 A Choral Workshop with Richard Gard, Saint Thomas More Chapel, Yale A Choral Workshop with Richard Gard at Saint Thomas More Chapel, Yale University, 268 Park Street, New Haven. Gard is the Director of Music at the Chapel and enjoys a successful career as a conductor, composer, teacher and producer with over 40 years experience leading and performing in orchestras, choirs, bands, and chamber groups. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree and two Masters degrees from Yale University where he was a student of Marguerite Brooks. Gard's choral arrangements, translations and compositions have achieved national publication and production. Dinner at Mory's will follow the workshop. For more information and registration contact Lee Giblin at 203-879-3709, or email to Waterbury AGO Registrar
Dec 11th 2011
Sunday
at 5:00 PM		 Great Organ Music at Yale - The Institute of Sacred Music Martin Jean playing "Music of Buxtehude" on the organ at Marquand Chapel, located at 409 Prospect St., New Haven, CT, 06511. The 2007 Taylor and Boody Opus 55 organ is tuned in the meantone temperament, in accordance with common practice in seventeenth century Europe. It is one of the very few meantone organs in North America, and one of the largest. Martin Jean has performed widely throughout the United States and Europe and is on the faculty of Yale School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music, which he directs, and serves on the board of directors of the Lutheran Music Program. This concert is free and open to the public. Tickets not required.
Dec 11th 2011
Sunday
at 2:00 PM		 Holiday Concert & Silent Film at Thomaston Opera House The Connecticut Valley Theatre Organ Society presents Juan Cardona Jr. in a Holiday Pops Concert & Silent Film accompaniment on the Marr & Colton III/15 rank Theatre Pipe Organ at the Thomaston Opera House, 158 Main Street, Thomaston, CT. Tickets available at the door $12. Students (12yrs and under) for $5. Tickets may be purchased in advance at discounted rate of $10 each by mail from Margaret Cardona. Send your check payable to "CVTOS" and include a self addressed stamped envelope to 13 Brookwood Drive, Newtown, CT 06470.
Dec 7th 2011
Wednesday
at 12:00 PM		 Wesleyan Organists in Recital Organ Students from Wesleyan University will be featured in a recital at South Church, 9 Pleasant Street (at Main Street and South Green), Middletown, CT. Free Admission.
Dec 3rd 2011
Saturday
at 7:00 PM		 Handel's "Messiah", Part 1, at Wesleyan University Wesleyan Singers with Ronald Ebrecht, conductor, Brian Parks, accompanist, Handel's "Messiah", part 1 and selected choruses. Memorial Chapel, 221 High Street, Middletown, CT. Free Admission.
Nov 13th 2011
Sunday
at 4:00 PM		 Jonathan Giblin at Sacred Heart Church, Waterbury Jonathan Giblin, Organist and Music Director at John Wesley United Methodist Church, Hagerstown, Maryland, will be featured on the historic 1892 Johnson & Son tracker organ at Sacred Heart RCC, 13 Wolcott Street, Waterbury (near the Brass Mill Mall). The program entitled "(Mostly) American Organ Music" features works of American-born composers Dudley Buck, Frederic Grant Gleason, William Bolcom, Libby Larsen, and Florence Beatrice Price. With a nod to the virtuoso organ master Johann Sebastian Bach in the "Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV-542". A light reception will follow. AGO Members and friends may join for dinner following at San Marino Restaurant in Waterbury. A free-will offering will be taken at the church to support the Sacred Heart Organ Fund. For dinner reservations at $20 each, please call 203-879-3709.
Nov 6th 2011
Sunday
at 4:00 PM		 Organ, Viola and Trumpet Concert in Killingworth Emmanuel Episcopal Church "The Little Church in the Wilderness" at 50 Emmanuel Church Road, Killingworth, CT. Hosting Susan Paisley, organ; Ronald Moore, viola and violin; and special guest John Holohan, trumpet. 
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