REGION IX CONVENTION 2011 SAN FRANCISCO TUESDAY JULY 5 at a glance … n.b. all today’s venues are located in the city of San Francisco 7:00 a.m. Leadership Breakfast at the hotel (by invitation and ticket only) 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Hospitality Desk open 9:15 a.m. Workshops I. To MIDI or Not to MIDI? That Is the Question (Robert Tall) at the hotel II. Adding More Ranks to Your Resumé (Linda Margetts) at the hotel III. Got Organists? Need Training? How to host a Super Saturday (Lori Serr) at the hotel IV. Vocal Technique for the Young Singer (Elizabeth Avakian) at Old First Presbyterian Church 10:15 a.m. Walk to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 10:30 a.m. Organ Recital by AGO/Quimby RCYO Winner at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 11:15 a.m. Walk to workshop venues 11:45 a.m. Workshops I. The Art of Accompanying (T. Paul Rosas) at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church II. “It’s Not in My Job Description” (Lea Schmidt-Rogers) at the hotel III. The Panama-Pacific Exhibition Organ (Jack Bethards and Orpha Ochse) at the hotel IV. Kaleidescope: The Colorful Life of Sigfried Karg-Elert (Richard Webb) at the hotel V. Contemporary Choral Music (Daniel Hughes) at Old First Presbyterian Church TUESDAY 12:00 p.m. (Lunch on your own) 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Exhibits, Registration, and Hospitality Desk open 1:45 p.m. Buses depart hotel for Mission Dolores Basilica 2:15 p.m. Organ Recital by Roger Nyquist at Mission Dolores Basilica 3:15 p.m. Walk/Courtesy Shuttle to St. John the Evangelist Church and Second Church of Christ, Scientist 3:30 p.m. Sherry reception at St. John the Evangelist Church 3:45 p.m. Organ recital by Brian Swager at Second Church of Christ, Scientist 4:00 p.m. I, Norton: An Opera in Real Time at St. John the Evangelist Church 5:00 p.m. (Dinner on your own in the Mission district) 7:00 p.m. Walk to Mission Dolores Basilica 7:30 p.m. This American Land: A Choral Concert by Artists’ Vocal Ensemble at Mission Dolores Basilica 9:00 p.m. Buses depart Mission Dolores Basilica for hotel 9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Registration and Hospitality Desk open 9:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. Exhibits open (with cash bar) 49 REGION IX CONVENTION 2011 SAN FRANCISCO Tuesday July 5 @ 9:15 a.m. Workshop I To MIDI or Not to MIDI? That Is the Question Robert Tall Golden Gate Holiday Inn, 1500 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco ome learn about MIDI technologies from a true pioneer In California, Tall has been a Cin the field! member of the Los Angeles Chapter AGO since 1984. Robert Tall has worked since 1984 in various capacities to He has held many positions, help create and develop digital systems that allow MIDI to including Dean, and was communicate to classical organs. He has been influential the Convention Coordinator in the creation of Sound Modules that store digitally for the Los Angeles AGO recorded samples from world-renown pipe organs, as well National Convention, July as, instruments of the orchestra, the human voice, and 4–9, 2004. On the national those of ethnic mix. He calls the classical MIDI organ “The level, he recently served as Modern Organ”, for which he has composed, arranged, Director of the Committee on and recorded music. His performances and lectures are National Conventions. highly entertaining. He enjoys sharing the magic! He remains active in performing, recording, and arranging. Tall has devoted most of his life to music. Advanced studies He manages the Division of Marketing and Sales for his at the University of Utah culminated in 1967 with a Doctor company. Robert Tall and Associates, Inc. is one of the of Philosophy degree in music and psychology. During world’s leading distributors of classical organs and digital his student years, he was a frequent guest recitalist at the music systems. Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. Following receipt of his degrees, he moved to Los Angeles. This workshop was made possible by a generous gift from the Joanna Smullin Organ Education Fund, administered by the San Francisco Chapter AGO TUESDAY Tuesday July 5 @ 9:15 a.m. Workshop II Adding More Ranks to Your Resumé Linda Margetts Golden Gate Holiday Inn, 1500 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco his workshop offers a synopsis of the Guild-sponsored and is coordinator of a group Tcertification examinations, considering the benefits, organ program. requirements, and study techniques for successful Margetts holds bachelor and completion. The instructor serves as Region IX Education master’s degrees in organ Coordinator, and has helped others prepare for and pass the performance from Brigham exams. Young University where Linda Margetts, FAGO is currently Region IX’s Education she studied with Parley Coordinator. She is one of five organists at the Mormon Belnap. She received a PhD Tabernacle, Salt Lake City (1984 to present) where her in composition from the responsibilities include playing noon recitals, accompanying University of Utah. and working with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, teaching She is active as a recitalist and served on the organ selection in the choir school and participating on the broadcast of committee for the Lively Fulcher organ in Gardner Hall, “Music and the Spoken Word”. University of Utah. Her past service in the AGO includes As an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Utah Dean and State Chairman positions. (1999 to present), she teaches organ performance majors She and her husband, Bert, are parents of six children. 50 REGION IX CONVENTION 2011 SAN FRANCISCO Tuesday July 5 @ 9:15 a.m. Workshop III Got Organists? Need Training? How to Host a Super Saturday Lori Z. Serr Golden Gate Holiday Inn, 1500 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco or the past several years, the Utah Valley Chapter AGO Her BM in organ performance Flocated in Provo, UT, has successfully organized and is from Brigham Young sponsored Super Saturday training workshops for the University, and she is a church organist. They have served as an outreach from the Nationally Certified Teacher Guild to the community to help church organists improve of Music with the Music and enhance their service-playing skills, while at the same Teachers National Association time increasing awareness of the AGO and its purposes. in piano and organ. Organ training is offered at beginner, intermediate, and She has taught both advanced levels, and includes educational workshops, instruments for over 25 years. 25 minute private lessons, and opportunities for social As a former faculty member at interaction with fellow church musicians. It also serves as a the Church Music Workshop perfect first exposure to the organ for pianists. at Brigham Young University, she frequently teaches organ training workshops for local units of the LDS church. Lori Serr is a native of Logan, Utah, where she began formal organ training at 14 years of age. She has studied with Linda She has served as Sub-Dean of the Utah Valley Chapter Margetts, Associate Tabernacle Organist and Parley Belnap, AGO and currently serves as the Education Coordinator and among others. chairman of the Super Saturday Training for Organists in the Utah Valley Chapter. TUESDAY Tuesday July 5 @ 9:15 a.m. Workshop IV Vocal Technique for the Young Singer Elizabeth Avakian Old First Presbyterian Church, 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco his presentation will unlock some of the mysteries in Avakian studied conducting Tworking with young voices to help them develop their at the University of the Pacific full potential of beautiful tone. Avakian will discuss and Conservatory of Music, demonstrate vocal techniques applicable for the young received a BM degree from singer. Included in the presentation will be exercises for the University of Georgia, alignment, breathing, good diction, and reduction of and undertook postgraduate unnecessary tension. studies at Arizona State University. Assisting her in the workshop will be some of her students from the San Francisco Girls Chorus. She conducts sight-reading clinics for the American Elizabeth Avakian has been a member of the San Francisco Choral Directors Association, Girls Chorus music faculty since 1983. She directs and adjudicates at choral and vocal music festivals, serves as supervises The Chorus School and conducts Level IV, the clinician for youth choruses throughout Northern California, Chorus School’s most advanced ensemble. She prepares and has provided in-service demonstrations and workshops singers for performances with San Francisco Symphony, San in choral and vocal development and technique. Francisco Opera, and San Francisco Bach Society; supervises the Chorus’ Conducting and Music Theory Apprenticeships; This workshop was made possible by generous donations and directs the Graduate Conducting Seminar taught each from Douglas H. Franks and Linda M. Quon, summer at SFGC’s Summer Music Camp. and by a grant from the Special Projects Advisory Committee, Boston Chapter AGO 51 REGION IX CONVENTION 2011 SAN FRANCISCO Tuesday July 5 @ 10:30 a.m. Organ Recital AGO/Quimby RCYO Winner St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 1755 Clay Street, San Francisco ? St. Luke’s: Æolian-Skinner Organ, Op. 1350 (1960) Great Swell (continued) 16’ Gemshorn (ext) 16’ Contre Hautbois (ext) 8’ Prinzipal 8’ Trompette 8’ Gedecktpommer 8’ Hautbois 8’ Gemshorn 8’ Voix Humaine 4’ Oktave 4’ Chalumeau à Cheminée 4’ Rohrflöte Tremblant 2’ Spitzoktave IV-VI Mixtur Positiv 8’ Pontifical Trumpet (Ch) 8’ Nasongedeckt 4’ Pontifical Trumpet (Ch) 4’ Koppelflöte Zimbelstern 2’ Blockflöte 13/5’ Terz TUESDAY Choir 11/3’ Nasat 8’ Spitzgeigen 1’ Oktave 8’ Zauberflöte 8’ Kleinerzahler II Pedal 4’ Spitzflöte 32’ Untersatz 22/3’ Rohrnasat 16’ Kontrabass 2’ Spillflöte 16’ Bordun III-IV Scharf 16’ Flute Couverte (Sw) 8’ Krummhorn 16’ Gemshorn (Gt) Tremulant 8’ Oktave (ext) 8’ Pontifical Trumpet 8’ Bordun (ext) 4’ Pontifical Trumpet (ext 8’ Flute a Cheminée (Sw) 8’ Gemshorn (Gt) Swell 4’ Choralbass 16’ Flute Couverte 4’ Bordun (ext) 8’ Flute à Cheminée III Mixture 8’ Flute Conique 32’ Contre Bombarde (ext) 8’ Viole de Gambe 16’ Bombarde 8’ Viole Celeste 16’ Contre Hautbois (Sw) 4’ Prestant 8’ Trompette (ext) 4’ Flute Courte 8’ Hautbois (Sw) 2’ Doublette 8’ Krummhorn (Ch) III Plein Jeu 4’ Clairon (ext) IV Cymbale 4’ Chalumeau à Cheminee (Sw) 52 REGION IX CONVENTION 2011 SAN FRANCISCO Tuesday July 5 @ 11:45 a.m.