Cost: $39:00 (incudes tip)

Registration:

Guest speaker: Peter Bishop: RCCO National President.

Please reserve the date now, and let your clergy know about it too! See you there!

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The freewill offering at this concert is to aid Pro Organo which has lost its grant from the City of Ottawa and must make up the shortfall in order to continue.

Hear our wonderful artists performing on the Dominion-Chalmers Organ in a benefit for Pro Organo, our superb organ recital series. These accomplished organists are donating their time and talent to help the Ottawa Centre raise much needed funds for Pro Organo. Please join us as we celebrate the gifts of the performers. Please join us and give generously to support our internationally recognized series Pro Organo.

Please join us for a social evening of great food and singing your favourite hymns.

Join us on Monday January 22^nd at the Wellington Gastropub in Hintonberg for a listening party of significant organ performances on vinyl. Please bring any vinly organ recordings that you would like to share.

This is being co-presented by Tetra Speakers (a locally based but internationally respected speaker company) which will bring in its audiophile-quality equipment. There is a fee of $25 which covers appetizers and a beverage with proceeds going to the Parkdale Food Bank and our Kiwanis Music Festival Organ scholarships. You may also order a dinner if you wish.

Come and hear our students in recital on Saturday March 10 at 1:30pm at St Luke's Anglican Church!

The purpose of this recital is to give students some valuable playing experience, so even beginning students are encouraged to play.

Free-will donations will be collected and will go towards the Scholarship for Beginning Organ Students. Come out and support our young organists!

Although this is not one of our programmes, it does involve many of our student members and we are providing $500 in scholarship money to the participants. The adjudicator is our member Wesley Warren. Come and support our students in recital. Further informationn can be found on the Kiwanis Music Festival website.

The first Great Bach Marathon held last season was very successful and brought members of the centre and the public together in a celebration of the music of Bach and the pipe organ.

Young and old, players, singers and lovers of music of all kinds: You're all invited to join us for the Ottawa Centre's Second Great Music Marathon in honour of Johann Sebastian Bach. This special event will be held from 1:30 – 6:00 pm, graciously hosted by Woodroffe's Music Director, Katarina Jovic. This celebration of the music of J.S. Bach will not only feature performances of his works on the pipe organ by our own Centre members, but also by many young students who sing, play piano and other instruments.

A freewill offering will be directed towards the support the scholarship funds for young organists. For any additional information or to volunteer to assist in the afternoon, please contact Sondraproctorgoldsmith (at) gmail (dot) com or mobile: 202.841.8712. Mark your calendars now and join all of us in this musical celebration of this great composer.

Come when you can; leave when you must.

A poster for this event is available here.

The full program schedule with list of music, performers and time can be downloaded here.

You can help us publicize this event by having this announcement put in your church bulletin.

The Ottawa Centre is planning an Organ Crawl on Saturday, May 26th. If you would like a ride or can drive and take one or two people, please register with Blake Hargreaves, 613.255.1394, email: Blake HargreavesFrances Macdonnell. We will work out the schedule closer to May 26th and publicize it.

Teachers: please let your students know about this event.

Here are the organs we will be visiting:

St. Finnan's Cathedral, Alexandria

The Casavant Organ, 2-manual Opus 284, 1907 received a RCCO Class A Historic Organ designation in 2007.

La Nativité Co-Cathédrale, 220 Montreal Road, Cornwall

The Casavant Organ, Opus 557, 1923/1965, (F. Caron 1984) is a 3-manual instrument with a Trumpet En Chamade added recently. The organ has more than 3000 pipes and 41 stops. The console was entirely rebuilt with 8 independent memories allowing 160 combinations.

St. John's Presbyterian Church, 28 Second Street East, Cornwall

S. R. Warren & Son, 1889 / F. Legge Opus 44, 1927 / Caron 1992
2-manual with 29 stops

Trinity Anglican Church, 105 Second Street West, Cornwall

Casavant Opus 848, 1920 / Hill, Norman & Beard 1968 / 1983-86 Caron for repairs
3-manual, 28 stops, 29 ranks

This is your centre. The executive values the feedback received from members. Come out and voice your opinions on what you would like to have your Centre do.

The Annual General Meeting of the Ottawa Centre is our opportunity to conduct the necessary business of the College but also to celebrate the year past and look forward to the coming year. All members are encouraged to attend and participate in decision making and to hear reports of the various convenors and national council representatives.

There is plenty of parking and the room is air-conditioned.