2024-2025 Program
Organ Concert by Members – Benefitting the WAGO Scholarship Fund, and a local food pantry.
Sunday, November 3, 3 p.m.
First Congregational Church, Waterbury
222 West Main St. (on the green)
Host: Stewart Crouse
Free admission, but non-perishable food items will be accepted for a local food pantry, and a free-will offering will be taken for the WAGO Scholarship Fund
Chair: Ron Ebrecht
ronald.ebrecht@yale.edu
Epiphany Pot-Luck and Carol Sing
Friday, January 3, 2025, 6 p.m.
Naugatuck United Methodist Church
208 Meadow Street
Chair: Michael Petruzzi
pianoman087@yahoo.com
Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Organ Crawl
Monday, January 20, 9:15 a.m.
Meet at First Church, Congregational, Fairfield
148 Beach Rd., Fairfield 06824
Chairs: Bill Degan and Christian Muller (combining with GBAGO)
Choir and Hymn Festival, Gabriel Lofvall, director, and Chorus Angelicus, guest chorus – Benefitting GWIM
Sunday, March 23, 4:30 concert
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Waterbury
16 Church St. (on the green)
Arrive at 1:45; 2-4 p.m. rehearsal
Host/Chair: Bob Havery
rhavery20@gmail.com
Repertoire:
Opening Round: When Jesus Wept – William Billings, 1770
In 3 parts: choir broken up to sing from the chancel and both side galleries
D-4 handbell to be used for intonation – in Chalice hymnal, #199
The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune/All People That On Earth Do Dwell – arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
(doubles as a congregational hymn for some verses)
[Bill Degan can lend copies – dblopen32@gmail.com ]
Cathedral of Praise – Joseph Martin Harold Flammer A 8551
-includes a verse for Youth Choir
There Is a Time – Craig Courtney Beckenhorst Press BP 1463
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 text
This Little Light of Mine spiritual, arranged John Helgen
Gladsong/Augsburg Press 978-1-5064-4756-8
-spiritual, jazz/gospel piano accompaniment
*For women and S A Youth Choirs:
For the Beauty of the Earth -Peter Niedmann Note: Contact Bill Degan (email address above) to get a reproducible copy. The work is copyrighted but not published. PN has given us permission to print this music for this festival.
OTHER HYMNS: When in Our Music God is Glorified -Chalice #7
Cantad al Señor (ELW hymnal #882) -select English and Spanish verses
Solo Choirs: Chorus Angelicus (2-3 selections + PN anthem above)
Individual church choirs – Contact Bob Havery if interested (email address above)
Annual Meeting and Picnic
Sunday, June 8, 4 p.m.
24 Cathy Drive, Southington – home/yard of Michael Petruzzi
Host: Michael Petruzzi
pianoman087@yahoo.com
Waterbury Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
2024-2025 Officers
Dean: Ron Ebrecht
Sub-Dean:William Degan
Treasurer: Michael Petruzzi
Registrar: Michael Petruzzi
Secretary: Toni Sullivan
Chaplain: Rev. Kristen Kleiman
Members-at-Large
Cornell Bialicki
Maria Coffin
Roberta De Fiore
Bob Havery
Gwynn Hopko
Robert Hopko
Dan Kendzior
Toni Sullivan
Job Placement and substitutes, webmaster, and newsletter writer/editor.
Please contact the Dean if interested.