An Ottawa organ crawl that will feature four churches situated on Elgin Street will begin at First Baptist at 1 p.m., move to Saint John the Evangelist Anglican at 2:00 p.m. Then we will visit Knox Presbyterian at 3:00 p.m. The crawl will end at Saint Marc United at 4:00 p.m. We will conclude the crawl with dinner, possibly at the Elgin Street Diner. All churches are at a walking distance from one another. Please note that Elgin Street is still heavily under construction. You may want to consider parking nearer to Gladstone Avenue near Elgin or near Saint Marc United. Also there is free parking on weekends at City Hall. For more information, please contact Gilles Leclerc.

Cost: $41:00 (includes tip)

Registration:

Please register by October 21^st by sending a cheque payable to RCCO, Ottawa Centre and mailing it to:

Guest speaker: Rev. Victoria Scott (St. Luke's Anglican Church)

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

Seven members of the Ottawa Centre are going to play in this year’s Members’ Recital. The performers will include Elaine Graham, Catherine Helferty, Karen Holmes, Robert Jones, Matthew Larkin, Donald Marjerrison, and Donald Russell, and the repertoire to be played will vary widely! Please come and enjoy this year’s performers, and see all your old friends.

Admission is by a freewill offering which will go to support Pro Organo.

Please print and display this poster.

Come and hear our students in recital. 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!

Join Jan Kraybill for a workshop exploring Bach's music, especially his use of musical symbolism to express theological concepts. You can expect to hear a lot of Bach in Jan's Pro Organo recital on the following Monday — it's the 270^th anniversary year of his death, after all! Come for an sneak peek and unpack some of the music you will hear.

For the Love of Organ Music!

Our featured recitalists are Matthew Larkin and Rachel Laurin. We are grateful for these superb organists for donating their talents in support our organ recital series. Pro Organo is the longest running organ recital series in Canada.

For many years, the City of Ottawa supported this activity by an Arts Grant, but this grant has been discontinued, and the Pro Organo Recital Series now needs substantial financial help in order to survive. Will you help us?

• Become a subscriber to our Pro Organo Concert series next season and attend the remaining concerts this season
• Attend this Benefit Gala given by two great Canadian concert organists, Matthew Larkin and Rachel Laurin.

• Become a donor by visiting our donations page to donate to the Pro Organo Recital Series.

• Please consider making a donation to the RCCO of appreciated stock; you will receive a tax receipt for the full value of your stock on the day of donation. Download the stock donation form here.

For further information about making stock donations, please contact Frances Macdonnell or 613-726-7984

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Download the program and biographies.

The RCCO Ottawa Centre, with the agreement of the Ottawa Kiwanis Music Festival, has determined that the RCCO will be able to organize the same organ classes for those candidates who applied for these classes in the spring, offering the same scholarships and with an external adjudicator, when the churches re-open and events generally begin again, perhaps in the autumn of 2020.

We plan to reschedule this program for late 2020.

The Fourth Great Bach Marathon will begin at 1:00 pm with the young people participating in an OrgelKidsCan event.

The Great Bach Marathon is a benefit concert to support beginning organ students.

The fulll program can be downloaded here.

Here is an outline of the day's activities.

1:00-2:00 pm OrgelKids Can – Solving the mysteries of the pipe organ. What makes a pipe organ work?
Joshua Zentner-Barrett, Facilitator
Have you ever put a pipe organ together? How does it work? How do the pipes work? What are bellows? How does the air move from the bellows to the pipes? An introduction to the pipe organ for ages 8 – 12

2:15-2:30 pm A special recital by Rachel Laurin on the small Letourneau pipe organ constructed by the participating students.
Ten little Sketches for Ten Little Fingers by Rachel Laurin for the OrgelKids Can organ and Kleine Bach-Paraphrase by J.S. Bach, arranged by Anders S. Börjesson.
Rachel Laurin will be assisted by students from the workshops.

2:30 pm        Presentations by students of Alison Kranias, Emily Baillie and Heather Rice

3:00 pm        Works from Orgelbüchlein

3:15 pm        Schübler Chorale Preludes

3:35 pm        Winners from the Ottawa Piano Festival

5:20 pm        Preludes and Fugues

As we gather at Woodroffe United Church, let us all thank the church staff and choir, Katarina Jovic, director, for hosting us so graciously throughout the rehearsals the days before the marathon and during the marathon. And, thank you to all of you who volunteer your time to help behind the scenes and support the performers. Each of you makes the difference in the success of the Great Bach Marathon 4.

Come when you can; leave when you must.

For additional information, email Sondra Goldsmith Proctor or phone (202)841-8712.

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.

All members are encouraged to attend and participate in decision-making of your Centre and to hear reports of the various convenors and National Council representatives. There is plenty of parking and the room is air-conditioned.