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Sacramento Chapter of the American Guild of Organists Newsletter February 2020 Sacramento Chapter of the American Guild of Organists Newsletter February 2020 www.facebook.com/groups/391263001675093/ Dean’s Message To my Dear Colleagues, Do you like our newsletter? Do you the music you’ll need is in the Future know someone else who would like and Current Events section. Bring your to read it? In our last board meeting choir director or member along with we unanimously decided to offer the you. Music is not provided so make sure newsletter free of charge to anyone to print out your copy before you come. who wishes to receive it. We’ve already added local choir directors and organ You’ll also find the second half of the AGO Board Members enthusiasts to our list (now over 120 “Overcoming Performance Anxiety” by recipients). Valerie Stipcak, but check out our new Dean column: “Featured Article” launched Ronald Paul Sidhu Have them email me or you can forward by our UK colleague Mark Jameson on [email protected] their email with their name and I’ll add a the Mander organ at St. George in them to the list. As you will see this Penang, Malaysia. And don’t miss Gayla Sub Dean newsletter is crammed with interesting Mott’s review of our very successful 12th Rex Rallanka and useful information for organists, Night Party. [email protected] choir masters, organ enthusiast, Bach lovers among many others! I hope to see you at all the future events Secretary and hear what great things your doing Gayla Mott Happy 80th Birthday Marian Metson! in promoting the organ and supporting [email protected] We feature her great biography in each other as colleagues. this newsletter in anticipation of her Treasurer birthday bash at First Lutheran in Yuba Adrienne Leach City. Check out the flyer attached, and [email protected] details in the events column. Ron Members at Large I hope you can make the very interesting Ryan Enright, Lars Gjerde Tim Brown workshop coming up at & Sue Miller St. Paul’s on Friday evening the 31st of January. He comes to us all the PS Don’t forget to visit our Facebook page – the new link to it is just above! Newsletter way from Clare College, Cambridge, Ron England! Information about parking and (916) 765-6562 [email protected] National Executive Director James E. Thomashower Substitute list [email protected] Lars Gjerde Email: [email protected] National AGO President Phone: (585) 200-8903 Michael Bedford Region IX Councillor Need an AGO Organist to Randy Wurschmidt Matthew Burt play at your service? Email: [email protected] [email protected] Phone: (260) 452-9751 We are compiling a list of all AGO Northern CA substitute organists to be published here Do you want to appear on this list? If so, please email your District Convener for churches to have for quick reference preferred contact information to: [email protected] Michael Varlas when they need an organist. [email protected] and you too can be listed here. 1 Membership Profile Marian Ruhl Metson was Boston, Marian had found a remarkable voice teacher and born in Omaha, Nebraska on decided she wanted to be a professional singer as well February 22, 1940. She will as organist. Ask her sometime about her exciting gigs be celebrating her birthday during this time, but her independent solo life ended when by performing with four she met Graham Metson, a tall, handsome Foreign Service colleagues on the spectacular Officer working in the State Department in Washington Munetaka Yokota organ at DC. After they were married in 1976, she moved to DC her former church in Yuba where she eventually was lucky again, finding the position City. You are all invited! open at Reformation Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill. See attached brochure and When her husband retired from the State Department, Future and Current events they decided to move back to the Boston area, where she column for details. was asked to join the organ faculty at Boston University. They spent ten years living in the beautiful, historic city CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT: In 1943 her family moved of Newburyport, where she worked at the Congregational from the midwest to Portland, Oregon, then to California, Church playing an 1867 Stevens organ. During her time living in Oakland and then Petaluma, where she graduated there she recorded four CD’s on historic and modern from high school. Inspired by hearing her mother singing organs in the Boston area for Raven Recordings. and playing the piano, she talked her into beginning piano lessons at the age of four. She continued piano study with After two beastly New England winters she and her various teachers through high school culminating in a solo husband decided it was time to return to California. They recital at Petaluma High School. On the program was the found the perfect house in Auburn near the American Concerto No. 1 in G minor by Mendelssohn with her teacher River Canyon and she has lived there ever since. Again, playing the orchestra part. While in the seventh grade, as luck would have it, the organ at First Lutheran Church, the organist at her father’s church in Oakland encouraged Yuba City, was being built by Munetaka Yokota, who by her to begin studying organ, and after their move to then had achieved renown after having completed the Petaluma the following year she became organist at the Centennial organ at Chico State. She eventually became United Methodist Church. Several sessions at the College of the principal organist at First Lutheran, where she started the Pacific summer music camp studying with Allan Bacon an adult choir and presided over a distinguished recital inspired her to become an organ major in college. series which continued after the dedication of the organ by David Rothe and Hans Davidsson in 1993. After sixteen COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY: Her undergraduate years she retired from First Lutheran having found a experience involved a search in finding the right place to satisfying situation at Holy Cross Lutheran in Rocklin. settle in. As a freshman she commuted from Petaluma There she shares organ responsibilities with two other to Santa Rosa Junior College where she studied organ organists, directs the choir and is inspired every Sunday with Gordon Dixon. The following year she moved to by the liturgical worship and preaching. San Francisco attending SF State and receiving credit for studying privately with Harold Mueller, organist at Trinity Marian has performed at national and regional conventions Episcopal. During that time, she met Gil and Madeline of the AGO as well as numerous conventions around the Crane and was a bridesmaid in their wedding. A year later country held by the Organ Historical Society. In northern she transferred to Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio California, she has performed recitals several times on studying with Warren Berryman and John Christian. While the Centennial Organ at Chico State, First Lutheran, there she was privileged to hear the Cleveland Orchestra Yuba City, the Presbyterian Church in Marysville, Oroville under the leadership of George Szell numerous times. Congregational, St. Paul’s Episcopal and Westminster Continuing in an eastward direction, she started working Presbyterian in Sacramento. She enjoys playing duets on her master’s degree in organ performance at Boston with Rex Rallanka whenever possible! University where she studied with Theodore Marier and Max Miller (remember Uncle Max in TAO?). FOR FUN: While her husband was living, Marian accompanied him to many exotic locations: Japan, Outer PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: How lucky can you Mongolia, Sri Lanka Central Asia, and four trips to China. get? Just as she was preparing her final degree recital After his death in 2006 she has traveled with friends, at Boston University she learned that the position of family and HOST organ tours to England, Scotland, Assistant Organist at Memorial Church, Harvard, was Ireland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, available. John Ferris, Organist and Choirmaster, attended Italy, Myanmar, Africa and Peru. As time passes, she is her recital, subsequently gave her an interview, and hired becoming an increasingly fanatic opera NUT, hoping to her. She remained there for seven years, taking leave of hear performances in the major houses in the US and absence while the Fisk Company was replacing the Aeolian Europe while she still can travel. While at home she tends Skinner with a four manual tracker action organ. She to her one third acre yard, cultivating it into an increasingly went to Vienna to study for a semester with Anton Heiller civilized garden. and attend the Haarlem Organ Academy the following summer where she took master classes with Marie Claire Please send your member profile, picture (not required)and short bio of yourself Alain. Luigi Tagliavini and Gustav Leonhardt. While in with organ experience to [email protected] Sacramento Chapter of the American Guild of Organists 2 St. George’s Church, Penang, Malaysia by Mark Jameson London organ builders Mander’s completed and the other facing the chancel, a typical arrangement for organs in in 2018 a new organ in Penang, this information Anglican churches at the time. In 1939, this instrument was rebuilt by an comes from their web site. The compiler unknown builder and what has been described as magnificent casework of this document is in contact with Michael was added, which was paid for by a private donation. Blighton who is now Mander’s Managing Director, John Mander having retired. Dr This organ is just visible William McVicker was the consultant. in a photograph taken some time between 1934 The building of St George’s Church, George and 1941. There being no Town, Penang was started in 1816 and funds available for a new completed in 1818 under auspices of the pipe organ after the war, East India Company, their charter having the church was served by been extended for 20 years in 1813.
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