Welcome to AGO Rochester, the website of the American Guild of Organists in Rochester, New York. The American Guild of Organists (AGO) is the national professional association serving the organ and choral music fields.

The Guild serves approximately 20,000 members in 330 chapters throughout the United States, and in Europe, Asia and Australia.

What's Going On at AGO Rochester...

February's Newsletter

Currently Open Positions (January 28, 2010)

Eastman at St. Michael's Concert Series

Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series

Joan Lippincott
 Michel Bouvard

Joan Lippincott, February 12, 8:00 pm
Christ Church (Episcopal) 

Michel Bouvard, April 30, 8:00 pm
Sacred Heart Cathedral  

Tickets for the Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series are $10 for general admission, and $5 for students.  Tickets are available at the venues 1 hour prior to the recitals.  Become a patron and receive 2 tickets for each event!

Mystery Organs of Rochester

The organs pictured below remind us of the past.  One of them is in existence today.  Can you tell us more about them?

If you are a Rochester AGO member and can identify this organ, send an e-mail to Jim Carpenter.  The first correct entry for each organ will be noted in the next newsletter, along with further inormation about the organ.

Mystery Organ 3

Mystery Organ Number 3
Click on the photo for a larger view.

 

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Mystery Organ 1

Mystery organ number 1

Two guesses came in for Mystery Organ 1… but this photo is actually the chapel in Rockefeller Hall, at the former Rochester Theological Seminary, at the corner of East Avenue and Alexander Street. Although organ specs did not accompany the photo, the Organ Historical Society pipe organ database  lists only one organ for that building – an 1879  2-manual, 12 register Hook & Hastings (opus 971).

-James Carpenter

 

 
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