Youth of Saint Philip’s in Concert: All are invited at 2:00pm on Sunday, May 25, in the main sanctuary as we conclude the year with vocal and instrumental offerings from the Youths at Saint Philips, including folk song arrangements by the Danish String Quartet, and the Missa Brevis of Benjamin Britten, from our Saint Nicholas Choir. This is a free concert; any donations will support the joint UK Residency/Pilgrimage program.
Join your Chapter friends for fellowship, potluck dinner, and a brief business meeting at the beautiful Clubhouse at Colonia Verde! Non-members are welcome to attend for food, fellowship, and information. Bring any organ music you no longer want.
Please watch the events page of the SAAGO website for information on whom to let know what you’ll be bringing. Utensils and soft drinks will be provided.
Click on the flier image (below) to download the 2 page PDF which includes driving directions to the venue.
St. Andrew's Concert Series is presenting "Patriotic Pipes 3 - Americana" on Friday, July 11, 2025 at 7PM. Featuring local Sierra Vista and Tucson artists performing patriotic American tunes by Berlin, Cohan, Joplin, Gershwin, Porter and Carmichael. The festivities include a musical salute to our Armed Service members and an audience Sing-A-Long. The historic 1949 Moeller Pipe Organ will be featured, the largest in Cochise County.
There is no charge to attend this concert, a freewill offering will be accepted. All donations go to the organ restoration fund.
St. Andrew the Apostle Church is located at 800 Taylor Drive, Sierra Vista, AZ. For more information please call (520) 226-5574.
The St. Andrew's Concert Series is pleased to welcome Attila Adam Honti, organist and choirmaster of the Svenska krykan Swedish Lutheran Church in Nordanstig, Sweden. This is a once-in-a-lifetime-time concert. Mr. Honti has given concerts all over the world, and has a unique background that will be wonderful to share with concert-goers.
He will be performing music of J.S. Bach, Cesar Frank, Lefebure-Wely and several newer works by a number of contemporary Scandinavian composers on the historic 1949 Moeller pipe organ, the largest in Cochise County.
Sunday, September 14, 3:00 p.m.
Christ Church United Methodist
655 N. Craycroft Rd.
Guests are welcome.
Join your colleagues in kicking off the Chapter’s 2025-2026 season.
Make your dinner reservation today.
Contact Dee Schultz at adschul@yahoo.com or 520 343-5343 by Tuesday, September 9 at the latest.
$10 per person, payable at the dinner. Dinner reservation deadline: Tuesday, September 9
Roy Johnson Memorial Organ Series
presents
Dr. Pamela Decker In Concert
Sunday, September 28, 3 p.m.
Holsclaw Hall, UA School of Music
Free Admission
Pamela Decker is a prolific composer as well as professor of organ, theory and composition at the University of Arizona. Her compositions have been published by major music publishers and they have been performed in at least 19 countries by musicians from all over the world.
Pipe Organs of the Gadsden Purchase
presented by: Professor Emeritus, David Gay & Stan Kartchner
Saturday, October 11, 10 a.m.
Northminster Presbyterian Church
2450 E. Fort Lowell Rd
Lunch follows
In 1854 the United States bought from Mexico the lower 100 miles of what is now the State of Arizona. It was called the Gadsden Purchase after the congressman who agitated for land to provide a route for the construction of a southern railroad line running from East coast to West coast. A railroad line was eventually built and the first train arrived in Tucson in 1880. That train and others to follow brought many things not previously available to this desert region outpost. Among these items were pipe organs, constructed by organ firms in the East.
In this presentation we will have a look at these early instruments and all others that have come to the region up to the present time. This PowerPoint presentation will include many photographs of churches and organs, as well as, audio
clips of the pipe organs. The presenter will be guild member David Gay. Visual and audio clips will be provided by guild member Stan Kartchner.
The photo on the right of the page is the 1903 Murray Harris Pipe Organ at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Bisbee, AZ. This organ was one of the instruments extant in the period.
