Greetings AGO Colleagues and Friends, It is certainly autumn in the Pacific Northwest, as the weather and leaves have turned. I am hoping this note finds you in good health and spirits. Many of you had a chance to participate in our September events and I saw several members from the Seattle and Tacoma chapters Saturday night at the 40th anniversary concert of the Paul Fritts organ at St. Alphonsus in Ballard. It was a delight to hear our own Tyleen Stults play music of D. Buxtehude, H. Scheidemann and F. Couperin. Tyleen is studying for her MM degree with Dr. Stephen Price. Another MM student, Kyle Hanks, performed works by J. Pachelbel and H. Distler. Thank you to Dr. Andrew Koch, Director of Music at St. Alphonsus for hosting this event, continued support from Dr. Carole Terry and Dr. Stephen Price for giving UW organ students access to this beautiful instrument. It was enjoyable to hear a recent work, Voluntary in Red, from a composer who formerly lived in this area, Frederick Frahm performed by Dr. Price. Dr. Terry mentioned that the organ department at the UW exists in part by donations from our Seattle Chapter.

The Executive Committee would like help from the general membership in terms of time and talent. We know that you have amazing musical talent, and we would like to hear about other talents you can share, such as:

What are your non-music jobs, either paid or volunteer?

What skills, besides music, do you enjoy using?

Do you have web design skills? Do you have accounting skills?

We are hoping to send out a brief survey focusing on these questions soon.

There will be open positions for the Dean Elect, four positions on the Executive Committee, Treasurer, Communications Officer, Placement & Membership. Our OrgelKid’s Kit should arrive in early November from Oregon. We are excited to share this new acquisition, and train interested people in setting it up and putting it back in its cases. There will be more information when it arrives on scheduling its use, insurance and where the instrument will be stored. We hope to see you at Church of the Ascension and happy Thanksgiving!

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Lucy Kay Osborne, Seattle Chapter Dean Dlktutti@comcast.net