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1978 "The Eye of the Composer," Pre-concert lecture for Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 23–24, 1978. 1976 "Church Music USA: Three Portraits and a Scheme," lecture for the Guild Service, American Guild of Organists, Seattle Chapter, Feb. 8, 1976. 1975 "Charles Ives and American Romanticism," Women's University Club, Seattle.
The American Guild of Organists (AGO) is an international organization of academic, church, and concert organists in the US, headquartered in New York City with its administrative offices in the Interchurch Center. Founded as a professional educational association, it was chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New ...
She initiated the study of Anglo-American organs as a sub-discipline in the 1950s. [1] She founded the Organ Historical Society in 1956 and served as its president. [1] [4] In 1985, she became librarian of the Organ Library of the American Guild of Organists at Boston University. She held numerous other positions for the Guild, serving as dean ...
McKay was born in the small frontier wheat farming town of Harrington, Washington.His family later moved to Spokane, where he attended school up to his college years.He was attracted to American folk-song, including jazz and blues and Native American themes, and to a great degree, his music contains a poignant evocation of the West Coast American spirit, including glimpses of a populist era of ...
US-based Orgelkids USA [6] was founded in June 2015 as a program [8] of the Eugene Oregon USA chapter of the American Guild of Organists, [9] and later incorporated on 29 August 2016 as a section-501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Frederick Lewis Swann (July 30, 1931 – November 13, 2022) was an American church and concert organist, choral conductor, composer, and president of the American Guild of Organists. His extensive discography includes both solo organ works and choral ensembles he has conducted.
Marshall has been a recitalist and workshop leader during many National Conventions of the American Guild of Organists (Dallas, 1994; New York, 1996; Denver; 1998; Seattle 2000, Denver 2002; Los Angeles 2004; Minneapolis, 2008; Washington 2010; Boston 2014).
John C. Walker, more familiarly known as John Walker, is an American concert organist, choirmaster, and CD recording artist. He is also a former president of the American Guild of Organists, elected in May 2014 to a two-year term of the 16,000-member organization.