Southern Arizona American Guild of Organists

SAAGO Presents: Pedals, Pipes & Pizza
2025-01-25 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix) | Saint Philip’s In The Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ, 85728, United States
Saint Philip’s In The Hills Episcopal Church
4440 N. Campbell Ave
Tucson, Arizona
10 AM – 2PM
SPACE IS LIMITED… GET YOUR RESERVATION IN EARLY!!

The Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (SAAGO) presents Pedals, Pipes & Pizza. This even is the perfect opportunity to introduce students from middle school through high school, to the King of Instruments – the Magnificent Pipe Organ. This year’s Pedals, Pipes & Pizza is offers far more than an introduction to the pipe organ; instruction on playing the instrument, as well as being able to sit at the console and play the organ. Likewise, qualified, experienced, talented, instructors will be on hand as well for anyone wishing to discuss and pursue private organ lessons.
We urge all our members, advertiser, friends, and patrons of SAAGO to invite a young musician. Invite your grandchild, your great-grandchild, your neighbor and their young musician to this superb event on January 25, 2025. It’s going to be something the students will never forget, nor will you as a host. Space is limited; therefore, download the registration form and flyer (see below in the post) and get the registration form into SAAGO as soon as possible. This event opens a whole new world to a young pianist, keyboard player, etc..
To sweeten the deal, this year’s Pedals, Pipes & Pizza offers two (2) NEW! opportunities for participants:
1) We are offering the student participants a chance to be registered to win SIX (6) FREE LESSONS on the Magnificent Holtkamp Organ – THE VERY ONE THEY ARE PLAYING AT PEDALS, PIPES & PIZZA – from World Renowned Organist, Dr. Jeffrey Campbell, Associate Director of Music & Organist at Saint Philip’s In The Hills Episcopal Church.
2) Through the graciousness of Dr. Valerie Harris, Dean -Central Arizona Chapter | American Guild of Organists (CAZAGO), SAAGO has been able to borrow this unique “Build Your Own Pipe Organ Kit” (the Orgelkids Kit) in order to make this year’s Pedals, Pipes & Pizza a unique, exciting, and hands-on experience. Thusly, we are having an organ building activity in place of the usual video for a truly an experiential exercise filled with fun and learning.

﻿It is simple enough even an adult is able to participate and contribute to the build.
We are looking forward to seeing you on January 25, 2025 at Saint Philip’s In the Hills Episcopal Church for the one-of-a-kind experience Pedals, Pipes & Pizza offers. Music Teachers please print out the flyer and the registration form and send home with students who may be interested, or you believe may be interested, in playing the organ. From experience, I know once someone sits at the console for the first time and hears the orchestra at their command… they will be forever hooked on the organ. It’s my, and most likely many of yours as well, story as to how we started playing the organ.

Please click on the the flyer and the registration form to download them. Spread the word throughout your churches, choirs, music departments, etc., and let’s have the best Pedals, Pipes & Pizza event – ever!

James C. Kautz Memorial Concert: The Lin-Daniel Lindner Piano Duo
2025-01-11 15:00 - 17:00 | St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, Arizona, 85728
James C. Kautz Memorial Concert
Lin-Linder Piano Duo
3:00pm on Saturday, January 11, 2025

The Lin-Linder Piano Duo began performing together after a dynamic collaboration at the University of Arizona’s Faculty Showcase Concert “Dancing on the Keyboard: Piano Music for Two, Four, and Six Hands.”
As avid performers of contemporary works, Lin-Linder Piano Duo’s performance of Aaron Graham’s Old Voltage was featured in the 2020 Turn Up Multimedia Festival, and their premiere recording of Dan Asia’s Piano Set II is included on a newly released album, Ivory II, published by Summit Records. This concert by the famous Lin-Linder Piano Duo will feature works by Chopin, Schubert, and Schoenfeld.
Currently, Dr. Lin and Dr. Linder both serve as Assistant Professors of Practice at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music in Tucson, Arizona.
For more information regarding concerts, and other events, please check out the Saint Philip’s In The Hills Episcopal Church Music Event page: https://stphilipstucson.org/music/concerts/.

SAAGO PRESENTS: "STARS & PIPES" (a.k.a., The Epiphany Party—Potluck)
2025-01-04 13:00 - 15:00 | The Highland Community Clubhouse, 332 West Matterhorn, Oro Valley, Arizona, 85737
Saturday, January 4, 1 p.m.
The Highland Community Clubhouse
332 West Matterhorn
Oro Valley, AZ
Join us once again for this favorite holiday event which will be held after Christmas, celebrating close to Epiphany. The Kuhlman’s have once again very kindly invited us to celebrate at the at The Highland Community Clubhouse in Oro Valley. We’ll have some fun little “organ trivia questions” to throw out there after lunch and dessert and a few silly prizes.
Bill We will be supplying the ham; if you are planning to attend, RSVP to Dee Schultz by THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2025 to confirm you are attending and to let her know what you plan to bring. You may call Dee at 520-343-5343; or email her at: adschul@yahoo.com.
This is a wonderful opportunity to wind down from the hustle
and bustle of Christmastide, and break bread with your fellow members in a
delightful evening. We hope to see you there!
SAAGO Board Members – PLEASE NOTE: There will be a short board meeting prior to the beginning of “Stars & Pipes”. The board meeting is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m..

St. Andrew's Concert Series Presents... Candlelight Carols: A Festival of Advent Lessons and Carols
2024-12-01 14:00 - 16:30 | St. Andrew the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, 800 Taylor Street, Sierra Vista, AZ, 85635, United States
The Festival of Advent Lessons and Carols is a program of brief scripture readings with traditional and contemporary carols and anthems sung by the congregation; led by the parish’s combined choirs; and accompanied on piano and the historic 1949 Moeller pipe organ.

Howells Requiem and Jonathan Dove’s Passing of the Year
2024-11-30 15:00 - 17:00 | St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, Arizona, 85728
THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN POSTPHONED AND NO RESCHEDULED DATE IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.
Sunday, Nov. 30, 3 p.m.
St. Philip’s in the Hill’s Episcopal Church
4440 N. Campbell Ave.
Jonathan Dove, English composer, set seven texts, including poetry by Blake, Dickinson and Tennyson, to create Passing of the Year for double chorus and piano in memory of his mother.
Herbert Howells Requiem was composed in 1932, but first published almost 50 years later in 1981. Set for unaccompanied choir, it uses a combination of texts from the traditional Requiem Mass and other sacred sources.

Chelsea Chen | Catalina Organ Festival
2024-11-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Catalina United Methodist Church, 2700 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ, 85716, United States
Friday, November 15, 7 p.m.
Catalina United Methodist Church
2700 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85716
Non-Member Admission: $30 online, $25 seniors 60+, $10 students with ID
This event is FREE for SAAGO Members!

Chelsea Chen returns to Tucson! With playing described as “stunning” and possessing “lovely lyrical grandeur” (Los Angeles Times), Chelsea Chen has electrified audiences throughout the United States and Asia.

Chelsea is a Fulbright scholar and graduate of Juilliard and Yale University, where she studied with Thomas Murray. Chelsea has performed to great acclaim at many important venues including Singapore’s Esplanade, Hong Kong’s Cultural Centre, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, and Los Angeles’ Disney Hall. Likewise, Chelsea has recorded multiple CDs and her playing has been aired on CNN.com, “Pipedreams” and Taiwan’s Good News Radio. She has premiered works by composer throughout the world. Chelsea’s compositions are available exclusively from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc.
Chelsea was previously Artist-in-Residence at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church where she performed and directed the concert series. Presently, she serves as Artist-in-Residence at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, New York.

16th Annual Hymnfest
2024-11-03 14:00 - 17:00 | AZ
St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church
Sunday, November 3, 2024 | 2 p.m.
800 Taylor Drive, Sierra Vista, AZ
Free will offering

St. Andrew’s has hosted an annual hymnfest since the present Möller pipe organ was installed in 2008. Lars Andersen has been the guest organist for this event since its inception. The three-manual Möller organ was built in 1949 for a church in Racine, Wisconsin. When that church closed, the organ was sold, dismantled, moved, and installed in the beautiful sanctuary at St. Andrew’s in the fall of 2008.
The program features a massed choir from many churches in Sierra Vista, a high school choir, and robust congregational hymn singing.

A Candlelight Concert for All Saints Day
2024-11-01 19:00 - 21:00 | AZ
Friday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m.
Chapel, Trinity Presbyterian Church
400 E. University Blvd. Tucson
This free program of meditative and peaceful music will be presented by Lynn Moser (piano and organ), Christine Harper (flute), Korby Myrick (mezzo-soprano), soloists from the Trinity Choir, and handbell players from the Trinity Ringers.

Lynn will play the chapel’s self-contained, 2/8, chapel organ built in 1983 by David Harris, the builder having been selected by Roy Johnson. The instrument is shown in the photo to the right.

SAAGO Annual Showcase Concert At St. Michael and All Angels Church
2024-10-27 15:00 - 17:30 | St. Michael and All Angels Church, 602 N Wilmot Rd., Tucson, Arizona
Each year SAAGO, the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists, holds an event to showcase the talents of its members. This year’s event will feature members:
Chris Fresolone
Jessie Jewitt
Laura Silva.

They will perform on the church’s Æolian-Skinner organ, an excellent representation of the “American Classic” design, which was originally built for Christ Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1959. St. Michael’s purchased this instrument in 1989. In 1998, after repairs and upgrades were made, and it was installed at St. Michael’s. The organ has seen the addition of the Antiphonal division, as well as changes and additions to the other divisions.

The completed instrument has been renamed the A. F. Schultz Organ, in recognition of Alan F. Schultz’s many contributions to St. Michael’s and the Tucson community.
Details regarding the performers and their repertoire, mostly Dupré, will follow in the October issue of the newsletter. Members of the audience and performers can mingle afterwards at the reception hosted by SAAGO.

Rising Stars, Young Musicians #1
2024-10-26 15:00 - 17:00 | St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, Arizona, 85728

Jeffri Sanders, Organist | FRITTS Organ
2024-10-20 15:00 - 17:00 | St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 3738 N Old Sabino Canyon Rd, Tucson, Arizona
St. Alban’s Concerts – Jeffri Sanders, Organist

Spooktacular Silent Cinema - 2nd Night - With David Wickerham
2024-10-19 19:30 - 21:30 | FOX THEATER, 17 West Congress Street, Tucson, Arizona, 85701
ATTENTION ALL SAAGO MEMBERS & FRIENDS
DAVID WICKERHAM, ENTERTAINER & THEATRE ORGANIST EXTORDINAIRE, RETURNS TO THE FOX THEATER IN TUCSON, ARIZONA FOR A THE 2nd DAY OF THE WEEKEND OF SPOOKTACULAR AND SILENT FILM FUN!
Saturday, October 19 at 7:30pm

Mark your calendars… Make it a fabulously spooktacular weekend of hilarity and old-fashioned fun for the entire family.
Contact The Fox Tucson Theater (www.foxtucson.com) for tickets and information.

Dave Wickerham is a celebrated American organist known for his exceptional performances onthe theater organ. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Wickerham studied classical organ, honing his skills and developing a distinctive style that blends traditional and music.
Don’t miss Dave pulling out all the stops for both Friday & Saturday movie nights!

Spooktacular Silent Cinema | Two Special Events
2024-10-18 19:30 - 21:30 | FOX THEATER, 17 West Congress Street, Tucson, Arizona, 85701
ATTENTION ALL SAAGO MEMBERS & FRIENDS
DAVID WICKERHAM, ENTERTAINER & THEATRE ORGANIST EXTORDINAIRE, RETURNS TO THE FOX THEATER IN TUCSON, ARIZONA FOR A WEEKEND OF SPOOKTACULAR AND SILENT FILM FUN!
Friday, October 18 & Saturday, October 19 at 7:30pm

Mark your calendars… Make it a fabulously spooktacular weekend of hilarity and old-fashioned fun for the entire family.
Contact The Fox Tucson Theater (www.foxtucson.com) for tickets and information.

Dave Wickerham is a celebrated American organist known for his exceptional performances onthe theater organ. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Wickerham studied classical organ, honing his skills and developing a distinctive style that blends traditional and music.
Don’t miss Dave pulling out all the stops for both Friday & Saturday movie nights!

Opening Service, Catered Dinner, Business Meeting
2024-09-15 16:00 - 18:00 | St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 3738 N Old Sabino Canyon Rd, Tucson, Arizona
This meeting – our first event of the new season in our 87th year – is an Opening Service of Worship hosted by Dr. Stephen Keyl. The scheduled organists for the program are: Dr. Stephen Keyl; Laura Silva, CAGO; and, Dr. Raymond Ryder, SAAGO President.
The Opening Service begins at 4:00 PM with the Rev. Robert Hendrickson as Officiant. At the completion of the Opening Service will be:

2024-2026 Officer Installation
A brief membership meeting
A delicious catered dinner by Andy Bruno.
Buffet Menu includes Fresh Garden Salad; Chicken Piccata; Herbed Quinoa; Chef’s Selection of Vegetables; Rolls; “Something Sweet”; Sodas & Bottled Water

Make sure to mark your calendar and plan to attend this important meeting. It is an exceptional opportunity to get to know — or become reacquainted with — your fellow SAAGO Chapter. Moreover, it is the perfect opportunity to share ideas for the Chapter as well as your musical needs. Spouses and partners are welcome, as are other potential chapter members! Be sure to join us for this first meeting of the new season of SAAGO’s 87th year!
RSVP by September 10, 2024 to: Kathryn Snodgrass (katebakermca@gmail.com)
Dinner is $10/person payable in cash at the door; or by check made out to SAAGO.
