Sunday - June 27, 2010

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• 3:00 - 5:00 pm   - Arrive on Sacred Heart University Campus; Registration at Roncali Hall foyer - housing building directly across from SHU entrance
• 4:00 -                   - Faculty Meeting - (Mahogany Room; right off the cafeteria)
• 5:00 -                   - Introductions - (Mahogany Room)
• 5:30 -                   - Dinner - (Mahogany Room)
• 7:30 - 8:45 pm   - Organ Recital by Frederick Teardo, United Congregational Church, Bridgeport 
• 8:45 - 9:30 pm   - Open Consoles - 3 Pipe Organs, Hammond B3, Harpsichord, Steinway

• 9:45 -                   - Dorm Meeting - (Roncali Hall)

Monday - June 28, 2010

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• 7:30 -                   - Breakfast - (Dining room)
• 9:00 - 12:00 pm - Workshops

Group A - Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Sacred Heart University

• 9:00 -                   - Introduction to the Organ - Jean Degan
• 9:45 -                   - Break
• 10:15 -                 - Practice Habits - Dr. Stephen Rapp

Group B - United Congregational Church

• 9:00 -                   - Hymn Playing - Frederick Teardo
• 9:45 -                   - Break
• 10:15 -                 - Accompanying - Frederick Teardo 
• 12:00 -                 - Lunch - (Dining room)
• 1:00 - 4:00 pm  - Lessons/Practice - Assigned Faculty and Area Churches
• 5:30                     - Dinner - (Dining room)
• 7:30 - 8:45 pm  - Thomaston Opera House -Theatre Pipe Organ - Juan Cardona Jr , Silent Film, David Harris

• 8:45 - 9:15 pm  - Open Bench

 Tuesday - June 29, 2010

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• 7:30 -                   - Breakfast - (Dining room)
• 9:00 - 12:00 pm - Workshops

Group A - Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Sacred Heart University

• 9:00 -                   - Basic Organ Mechanics - Adam Kowal
• 10:00 -                  - Break
• 10:30 -                  - Basic Organ Registration - Dr. Eileen Hunt

Group B - United Congregational Church

• 9:00 -                  - Improvisation - John Abdenour
• 10:00 -                - Break
• 10:30 -                - Choral Conducting From the Organ Bench - Dr. John Michniewicz
• 12:00 -                - Lunch - (Dining room)
• 1:00 - 4:00 pm - Lessons/Practice - Assigned Faculty and Area Churches
• 5:30 -                   - Dinner - (Dining room)  
• 7:30 - 8:45 pm - Organ Recital - Chris Houlihan, First Church Presbyterian, Stamford
• 8:45 -                   - Open Bench

 Wednesday - June 30, 2010 

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• 7:30 -                   - Breakfast - (Dining room)
• 9:00 - 11:30 am - Lessons/Practice - Assigned Faculty and Area Churches
• 12:15 -                 - Box lunch on bus to New Haven
  1:00 -                   - Arrive at Trinity Church-on-the-Green in New Haven. Frederick Teardo will demonstrate the organ. Open console
• 1:45 -                   - Walk to Phelps Gate and Old Yale University Campus. Stephen Roberts wll be tour guide to tell about the history of the New Haven Green and Yale University
  2:00 -                   - Dwight Chapel, Yale University. III manual Von Beckerath organ, Open console
  2:30 -                   - Battell Chapel, the official chapel of Yale. III manual Holtkamp. Open console.
  3:15 -                   - Class by Thomas Murray, Yale University Organist, at Christ Church. III manual Lively-Fulcher.
  4:15 -                   - Walk to Woolsey Hall. Stephen Roberts will describe points of interest on the way. Quick detour through the main hall of Sterling Library and the exhibition area of the Beinecke Rare Book Library to see the Gutenberg Bible.
  4:45 -                   - Tour of the IV manual, 198-rank Newberry organ in Woolsey Hall by Joseph Dzeda of the A. Thompson-Allen Company who tune and maintain the organ. Please note that the organ is not playable during the summer, but we will go inside the organ and hall.
  5:30 -                   - Take the van from Woolsey Hall to the Yale Divinity School. Pizza supper as soon as we arrive, al fresco on the Quad if the weather permits, otherwise the Common Room. The Yale Institute of Sacred Music will be open for students to visit.
  7:00 -                   - Demonstration of the new meantone Taylor & Boody organ in North German style at Marquand chapel by Dr. Martin Jean, Director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Open console.
• 8:30 -                   - Return to Sacred Heart University from the Yale Divinity School

Thursday - July 1, 2010 

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• 7:30 -                  - Breakfast - (Dining room) 
• 9:00 - 12:00 pm - Workshops

Group A - Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Sacred Heart University

• 9:00 -                  - Basic Hymn Playing - Cheryl Duerr
• 9:45 -                  - Break
• 10:15 -                - Science of Tuning and Temperament - Bill Degan

Group B - United Congregational Church, Bridgeport

• 9:00 -                   - DVD of Organs of Central Germany - Stephen Roberts
• 10:00 -                 - Break
• 10:30 -                 - Organ Mechanics: What You Need To Know - Ed Odell

• 12:00 -                  - Lunch - (Dining room)
• 1:00 - 4:00 pm - Lessons/Practice - Assigned Faculty and Area Churches
• 5:30 -                    - Dinner - (Dining room)
• 6:15 -                    - Performance Techniques/Stage Etiquette - Dr. Stephen Rapp 
• 7:30 - 8:45 pm - Faculty Recital - Cathedral of Saint Augustine, Bridgeport

• 8:45 -                    - Open Bench

Friday - July 2, 2010

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• 7:30 -                    - Breakfast/Pack Bags
• 9:30 - 12:00 noon  - Student Rehearsals for the Recital w/Assigned Faculty in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit
• 12:00 -                  - Lunch - (Dining room)
• 1:30 - 3:30 pm   - Student Recital - Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Sacred Heart University
• 3:30 - 4:30 pm   - Check out
• 5:30 - 8:30 pm   - Faculty/Volunteer Party - John Polo home, 25 Plymouth Avenue, Trumbull