Silent Film Series: The Mark of Zorro, April 10

Join us on Saturday, April 10 at 7:00 pm for our next installment in our Silent Film Series: The Mark of Zorro starring Douglas Fairbanks, featuring organist Ben Model at the Brooklyn Baptist Temple.

Please feel free to download the poster, and print it to post in your churches, or anywhere in your community that allows flyers.

Zorro Poster

Silent Film Series: The Ten Commandments, February 13

Join us on Saturday, February 13 at 7:00 pm for our next installment in our Silent Film Series: Cecil B. DeMIlle’s The Ten Commandments, featuring organist Ben Model at the Brooklyn Baptist Temple.

Please feel free to download the poster, and print it to post in your churches, or anywhere in your community that allows flyers.

10 Commandments Poster

You may download the flyer in PDF form here.

MLK Chapter Excursion, January 18

NJ10 Flyer

You may download the form as a PDF here.

Former Dean Jonathan Hall’s Book on Calvin Hampton now available

The Brooklyn Chapter celebrates the achievement of our Past Dean and longtime member, Jonathan Hall, in the publication of his book, Calvin Hampton: A Musician Without Borders. The book, a full-length biography of Calvin Hampton (1938-1984), is available from Wayne Leupold Editions. The website is www.wayneleupold.com.

A Musician Without Borders traces Calvin Hampton’s life from his birth in Pennsylvania and early life in Ohio, through his education, and through the rest of his short life; including twenty years of remarkable music ministry at Calvary Episcopal Church in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. While at Calvary, Hampton instituted the famous “Fridays at Midnight” organ recital series and produced sacred music that is in the Episcopal hymnal, and in other hymnals, to this day. Hampton’s legacy of organ music, as well as choral, instrumental, and orchestral music, comprises a fascinating and challenging legacy.

The book took shape as Hall’s doctoral essay at Indiana University, where he graduated in 2001. He is currently Music Director of Union Temple of Brooklyn and St. John’s Episcopal Church, Cornwall, NY. He served as Dean from 2006 to 2009.

Holiday Banquet, January 10

Holiday-Banquet-2010

Download form here.

Silent Film Series Continues: Saturday, December 12

The Brooklyn AGO Silent Film Series Continues with Comedy!

Join us on Saturday, December 12 at 7:30 pm for an evening of Charlie Chaplin shorts, featuring organist Ben Model. For more about Ben, click here; see the poster for additional details.

Please feel free to download the poster, and print it to post in your churches, or anywhere in your community that allows flyers.

Help your Chapter to promote this fun event. We appreciate it!

Chaplin Poster

Download: Chaplin Poster

November 7: Pedals, Pipes and Pizza

The registration form for the November 7 Pedals, Pipes and Pizza event will take place this coming November 7 at the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims on 75 Hicks Street between 10am and 2pm.  The registration form is now available for download in PDF format.  The fee for this event is $10.

If you would like to attend, click here to download the form. Print it, fill it out and return to Sub-Dean Raymond Trapp with the fee to the mailing address provided.   If you have any questions about the event, you can email Raymond directly by clicking here.

Silent Film Series: The Cat and Canary, October 10, 7pm

The Brooklyn AGO Silent Film Series Begins!

Join us on Saturday, October 10 for The Cat and Canary, a horror/comedy classic, featuring organist Ben Model.  For more about Ben, click here; see the poster for additional details.

Please feel free to download the poster, and print it to post in your churches, or anywhere in your community that allows flyers.

Help your Chapter to promote this fun event. We appreciate it!

Cat and Canary Poster

Click to download: Cat and Canary Poster

Welcome to the new Brooklyn AGO website!

Welcome to the new Chapter website! We’re still working out a few kinks and updating the content, so bear with us as we get everything up to date.

Update: Thursday, August 27: details for the new webhost are now mostly sorted out, so the brooklynago.org URL will point to this page.   As soon as we’re certain the DNS update is complete the site will be fully live.

BROOKLYN CHAPTER DISCOVERS NEW JERSEY!

Join us on Monday, January 19, 2009–Martin Luther King’s holiday–for a tour of historic pipe organs in New Jersey.

You’ll be conveyed in comfort (somehow!) to organs in Hoboken, Newark, and elsewhere in the Garden State. This is a terrific chance to get out of New York without really having to leave home.

There will be a cost of $20, twenty dollars, per person, members and non-members; lunch is on your own.

RSVP: To Treasurer Steven Danziger, sdanziger AT pol DOT net, or mail an RSVP to 35 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn NY 11215. Please RSVP as soon as you can, at least to let us know you’re coming.