April 2024
Dear Chapter Members and Friends,
We have finally arrived at the 1st day of April, the day after Holy Week, and the time between Easter and Pentecost. If you are like me, you are feeling both exhausted and joyful, looking forward to a few days of rest after Easter. It is time to kick back and “smell the roses”, enjoy some “down-time” and think about some rejuvenation for body, soul and spirit.
After enjoying the CFAGO activities for January, February and March, this month brings our penultimate CFAGO event for the year……the David Hurd Community Sing-In at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church (2499 N. Westmoreland Ave., Orlando, FL 32804) on Sunday, April 21. Dr. David Hurd is an immensely distinguished musician, holding degrees from the Julliard School and Oberlin College. He also holds honorary doctorates from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He currently serves as Director of Music at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square, New York City. Many of his compositions can be found in hymnals, including the 1982 Hymnal of the Episcopal Church.
I encourage you to invite your choir members to volunteer for the choir that Dr. Hurd will lead as part of the Sing-In. Please invite your congregation to attend and to be a part of the congregational “choir”. The Central Florida Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is honored to have such a wonderful musician leading this event.
I hope to see many CFAGO members and members of their choirs and congregations at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, 2499 N. Westmoreland Ave., Orlando, FL 32804 on April 21 at 4:00 pm!
Soli Deo Gloria!
Charlene Cranmer CAGO
Dean CFAGO
