"Pedals and Pipes, Stars and Stripes!" concert at Glenview Community Church

The Simple Gifts Concert Series of the Glenview Community Church presents the North Shore Chapter of the American Guild of Organists in recital on Monday, June 1 at 7:15pm. In honor of Memorial Day, the concert will include arrangements of patriotic songs such as Stars & Stripes Forever, and the Star Spangled Banner. Pieces by American composers John Knowles Paine and Leo Sowerby will be featured. Admission is free.

Performers include Andrea Handley (Trinity United Methodist Church, Wilmette), Jill Hunt (First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest), Christine Kraemer (St. Luke’s Episcopal, Evanston), Derek Nickels (Church of the Holy Comforter, Chicago), Jay Peterson (Christ Church, Winnetka), David Schrader (Roosevelt University, Chicago) and Gary Wendt (Glenview Community Church).

Founded in 1896, The American Guild of Organists (AGO) is the national professional association for the organ and choral music fields. The Guild serves approximately 20,000 members and has more than 300 chapters nationwide and abroad. The North Shore AGO draws its members from the area north of Chicago to the Wisconsin border. Its members hold positions at churches, colleges and music schools. They teach privately and perform across the nation. For more information visit www.northshoreago.org.

The pipe organ at the Glenview Community Church was built by John-Paul Buzard pipe organ builders, Champaign, IL, and was completed in 1999. It has 3865 pipes, 49 straight-speaking stops, 69 ranks across three manuals and pedal, John-Paul Buzard describes it as “grand and heroic”. Improvements to the acoustics in the sanctuary since the year 2000 show off the instrument’s color and versatility. An electronic Harp/Celeste stop was added in 2013. For more information on the organ visit http://www.gccmusic.org/BuzardOrgan.html.

Glenview Community Church is located at 1000 Elm Street (at Glenview Road). The building is handicap accessible and has free onsite parking. It is 3 blocks west of the Glenview Metra North train station.

Visit www.gccmusic.org or call 847 724 2210 for further details.

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