Browse our plans for 2017/18 ….

Monday, September 25 – Members’ Recital
Venue – Webster Groves Presbyterian Church (Shawn Portell and Ted Cronbaugh, hosts)
This concert will be recorded for use by the King of Instruments radio program
6.30 PM – Dinner
7.30 PM – Recital

Monday, October 23 – Gregorian Chant and Organ Music and Motets based on Chant led by Nick Botkins and Nicholas Bideler
Venue – St. Francis de Sales Oratory (Nick Botkins, host)
6:30 PM – Dinner
7:30 PM – Program

Friday, November 10 – Fund raiser
Venue: Scottish Rite Cathedral (John Hawn, host/planner)

Saturday, January 27 – January Jubilee
Venue – Peace Lutheran Church

Monday, February 19 – Open Console and Cocktails
Venue – Historic Trinity Lutheran in Soulard (Wesley Kassulke and Jeffrey White, hosts)
7:00 PM – we will meet at Trinity Lutheran Church where all in attendance will have a chance to play the Schantz organ. Afterwards we will gather at a local pub and continue the discussion. This is geared for our younger members, but all are welcome!

Saturday, March 10 – Organ Crawl to Springfield and Jacksonville, Illinois (all day)
We’ll travel by charter bus. In Springfield, Illinois we’ll visit the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and their 4-manual Reuter which was moved from another church and First Presbyterian Church and John Brombaugh’s Opus 35. From there we will travel to Jacksonville, Illinois where we will enjoy lunch and then visit MacMurray College and its1952 Aeolian-Skinner Organ Opus 1150, 59 rank instrument. The last stop of the day will be the 1979 – 39 stop Holtkamp Organ at Illinois College

Sunday, May, 20 – Recital by Clay Christiansen, Organist of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Venue – Manchester United Methodist Church (John Cargile, host)
3:00 pm – Recital

Monday, May 21 – Annual Dinner Meeting
Venue – Webster Groves Christian Church (Lisa Cripe, host)
6.30 PM – Dinner
7.30 PM – Meeting with Clay Christiansen as guest speaker. He will discuss his work with the tabernacle choir and the organs at Temple Square, Avis Blewett Award and Installation of Officers.

(As of May 17, 2017 ~ subject to change)

Highlights of our 2016/2017 year

Photograph from our final chapter meeting, L-R.  Sub-Dean Burnell Hackman | Lisa Cripe* | James Thomashower ** | Luella Foster* | Bill Stein* | Brent Johnson*** | Dean Mark Scholtz

* Class of 2020 | ** Executive Director of the American Guild of Organists | *** 2017 Avis Blewett Awardee

2016-2017 Program Syllabus

Monday, September 12 – Members’ Recital Salem United Methodist Church (Mary Hitchcock Reinhart, host)

Sunday, October 23 – Recital by Thomas Murray Ladue Chapel Presbyterian Church (David Erwin, host) Monday, November 14 – Boardwalk Hall Presentation Nathan Bryson, Curator of the organs St. Timothy’s Church, Creve Coeur (Mark Scholtz, host) Saturday, January 7 – Morning with John Ferguson Second Presbyterian Church Andrew Peters, host 9:00 AM – Breakfast 10:00-11:30– Workshop – What Is Relevant for the Typical Church Choir” Sunday, January 8, 2017 – Epiphany Hymn Festival Monday, February 13 – MorningStar Choral/Organ Reading Monday, March 20 – Quick fixes and other such things! Thursday, May 4 – Organ Recital by Daryl Robinson Final Event – Monday, May 22 – Annual Meeting (6:30 PM – Dinner | 7:30 PM – Meeting) presentation of Avis Blewett award, installation of new officers Guest Speaker – James Thomashower, Executive Director of the American Guild of Organists (National Headquarters) Kirkwood United Methodist Church (Dolan Bayless and Dana Self, hosts)