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New Bells for Netherlands Carillon by Edward M No. 104 November 2020 www.gcna.org Newsletter of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America Features Call for Nominations to the From the GCNA Board of Directors by Lisa Lonie From the President's President’s Corner Corner 1 oard service for the Guild is a chance to grow Friends and Colleagues, New Carillonneur Bpersonally and professionally, to share valuable Members 4 skills, gain unique experiences, and make lasting hope you are all keeping well and connections with other passionate and motivated staying healthy. The past months Composition I members. Board service is a chance to help strategically have been difficult for many of us. In Contests 7 decide the future direction of the organization and addition to all the other ways in which Festivals and profession while being a strong advocate for the the pandemic has overturned our daily Regionals 10 carillon. It also offers the unique opportunity to gain lives, one experience that many of us recognition from your employer, peers, and community. shared was the disruption to the usual Towers and ways in which we make music for Excursions 11 Nominations are now being accepted for the GCNA others and with others. Reviews & board for a 3-year term beginning June 2021 and ending Publications 12 June 2024. Both self-nominations and nominations of I was recently reminded of words that your colleagues are enthusiastically welcomed. the social activist Dorothy Day once spoke about the different kinds of Plus Applications will be accepted until January 1. Please hunger: as important as it is to address refer to the nomination form found at https://www. the hunger for bread, we must also Calendar 2 gcna.org/board-officers or email Nominate@GCNA. remember to attend to the hunger for org for a copy. beauty. She was speaking about how Take Notes: a particular building was one of the Awards, Exams, Additional information on the responsibilities, few places of transcendent beauty in Education 9 frequency of meetings, etc. can be found here https:// the neighbourhood that everyone, rich In Memoriam 14 www.gcna.org/resources/Documents/Becoming- or poor, was always welcome in, but Board-Member-2020-Oct.pdf she probably would have agreed that music too has the potential to address continues on page 5 this hunger for beauty. continues on page 3 1 Carillon News is published each April and No- vember by the Guild of Carillonneurs in North Carillon NEWS America, a California non-profit corporation. Officers: Roy Lee, President Deadlines: Submissions for publication must [email protected] be received by February 15 for the spring issue and September 15 for the fall issue. Submis- Laura Ellis, Vice President sions should be typewritten and are appreciated [email protected] by e-mail. Send materials to: carillonnews@ gcna.org. Carrie Poon, Recording Secretary [email protected] Opinions expressed in Carillon News are not necessarily those of the editors, nor do they Lynnli Wang, Corresponding Secretary [email protected] necessarily carry the endorsement of the GCNA. Wesley Arai, Treasurer ******************************* [email protected] Co-Editors Board Members: Austin Ferguson, Carrie Poon Joey Brink (2021) Andrea McCrady (2021) Editorial Staff Carol Anne Taylor (2021) Margaret Angelini, Roy Lee, Judy Ogden, Elisa Tersigni Wesley Arai (2022) Roy Lee (2022) Story Contributors Caroline Poon (2022) Jeffrey Bossin, Jeremy Chesman, Ellen Dickinson, Jim Fackenthal, Laura Ellis (2023) Austin Ferguson, Roy Lee, Lisa Lonie, Austin Ferguson (2023) Julianne Vanden Wyngaard (2023) Edward M. Nassor, Luc Rombouts, Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, Elizabeth Vitu, Membership information and applications are available from: Lynnli Wang Lynnli Wang, Corresponding Secretary 930 South Maxwell Terrace, Apt F Photo Contributors Bloomington, IN 47401 Austin Ferguson, Rob Fritsen, Luc Rombouts, [email protected] Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra Back page photo: HOW TO REACH THE GUILD Austin Ferguson, Mayo Clinic To contact the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, email: [email protected] Design and Production Guild Web Page: Austin Ferguson, Carrie Poon; D&R Press www.gcna.org Printing D & R Press, Melrose Park, IL Copyright 2020 by The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. All items submitted for CALENDAR publication become the property of the GCNA, except that 79th GCNA Congress, Trinity College contributors assume liability for copyrighted photographs Hartford, Connecticut, 2021 or music examples submitted, and assume responsibility for claims therefrom made against the publisher. For permission 80th GCNA Congress, University of Chicago to reprint contact the co-editors at the address listed above. Chicago, Illinois, 2022 2 from President, page 1 For me personally, this spring Spring issue, our organization’s assets have grown substantially and early summer brought many over the past decade. moments of desolation relating to my struggle to find ways to address As a reminder, to maintain our tax-exempt status, the activities this second kind of hunger. This that the Guild engages in, primarily through the work of our experience has made me appreciate committees, must be restricted to those that further the charitable all the more the role that music- and educational purposes permitted under section 501(c)(3) of the making normally plays in my life. As Internal Revenue Code. As an organization, we must also refrain autumn is a time for thanksgiving, I from prohibited political or lobbying activities. want to give thanks for all the times when Beauty, the Healer of Souls, has been abundantly present in my life, and I wish for the On the subject of complying with federal laws, we must also be same in yours always. conscious of antitrust laws. It may seem unusual for an organization like ours to have such concerns, but the Federal Trade Commission Continuing the Guild’s work recently investigated the American Guild of Organists for certain policies and practices deemed to be anti-competitive. The case Speaking of thanksgiving, please join me in showing gratitude to was ultimately settled, with the AGO voluntarily agreeing to cease the many committee members, officers, and board members whose certain practices. extraordinary efforts this spring and summer ensured that the work of the Guild could continue in spite of the challenges posed With 14,000 members, the AGO had the resources to hire outside by the pandemic. Among other things, new music and the 2020 counsel to negotiate a settlement, and full-time staff to help Bulletin were published, and the inaugural Warner arrangements/ implement it by revising policies and producing various guidelines. transcriptions competition prizes and the annual Barnes grants Our organization has much more limited resources, and we must were awarded. take care not to even come close to conducting ourselves in a way that could put us at risk of an FTC complaint. In particular, I want to shine the spotlight on Pat Macoska (outgoing chair of the Carillonneur Examination committee) and Mitchell The issues are complex, but essentially we need to remember that, Stecker (outgoing Corresponding Secretary), who ensured that even though we call ourselves a guild, our organization is not in the Carillonneur Examination process and the annual election of fact a union or a professional regulator. Instead, our members are directors, respectively, could go ahead in modified formats despite considered by antitrust laws to be competitors with one another the cancellation of congress. when we offer to provide our services as musicians to the outside world. We may join together as an association for educational or Finally, the board met via videoconference six times in four charitable purposes, but attempts at self-regulation in certain ways months to brainstorm, discuss and approve extraordinary as well risk bringing us into non-compliance. as ordinary items. In the midst of upheaval in other parts of their lives, they made the needs of the Guild a priority as they diligently Until next time, carried out their board responsibilities. I thank all of my board colleagues for their dedication and good judgment. The Feds Roy Lee Just as we were closing the chapter on the 2019-2020 season GCNA President of Guild activities and I promised board members the month of August off, we got word from the Internal Revenue Service that we were being audited. Dave Hunsberger, who acts as the Guild’s attorney, pulled together the requested records, which satisfied the IRS auditor, and the audit came to a relatively quick and painless end. We should not be surprised that the IRS is subjecting our activities to greater scrutiny: as I explained in my column in the 3 New Carillonneur Members espite some reorganization due to the COVID-19 pandemic, relocating to Boston soon, so she will be in search of new playing Dthis year's Carillonneur examination process finished on opportunities there. In Jennifer’s own words: “I just graduated with schedule. The exam committee is pleased to announce that the a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where I was following individuals' pre-recorded "virtual exam recitals" were involved with the university's carillon program. I graduated from approved by the membership via online voting in June 2020. the University of Oklahoma in 2013 with Bachelors degrees in Professional Writing and Film & Media Studies. Prior to my move to Chicago, I taught media in Ukraine and worked as a videographer We all join in congratulating the newest Carillonneur members and in Madison, Wisconsin. Music has always been part of my life look forward to seeing them in person at future Congresses. and education. I took formal piano lessons through high school and voice lessons in college, in addition to participating in choirs ALICIA DING (not pictured) (candidate 12) regularly from the time I was a teenager.
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