What a banner start to the program year for the organ and its musicians in the Pacific Northwest! From our annual start-of-year picnic at the home of David Dahl and Loi Le to the inauguration program of a new-to-town instrument by Dr. Paul Tegels, and the welcoming of the new PLU organ professor Dr. Justin Murphy-Mancini. What an incredible place we live and work!

This month’s chapter event will take place at 10:00am on Saturday, October 26 at Christ Church Episcopal. David Dahl and Dr. Paul Tegels will present a workshop on the fugues from J. S. Bach’s Eight Little Preludes and Fugues, examining Baroque pedal technique as choreography. This will prove to be an informative session for all organists, young and young-at-heart alike, as these works typically form a part of our own training on the King of Instruments. Please plan to join us and bring a friend (or two)!

I encourage you to check out some feature articles in the October issue of The American Organist. Highlights include a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Flentrop organ at Oberlin Conservatory; a review of the 2024 National Convention in San Francisco, in which you will see some familiar faces; and an article by Christophe Mantoux entitled “Reflections on ties and note durations in organ music, Part 3.”

In November, we will join the community of Christ Church Episcopal as they celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the landmark Brombaugh organ on the evening of Saturday, November 23 with a concert by Nathan Laube. There will be no TAGO event in December.

As always, I encourage you to peruse the abundance of concerts, events, and lunches listed on our TAGO Calendar.

In music,
Wyatt Smith