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This section offers news briefs concerning the New York and New Jersey region of the American Guild of Organists (AGO). For the opening dinner of the new season, AGO members met at the home of Bob and Cathy Martin in Little Falls, New Jersey on September 12, 2008. Mary Bon and Neil Keen played an organ recital to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Austin organ at Old First Church in New York. The Sacred Heart Cathedral in New York provided the Paul Fritts Halloran-All Saints Organ as the backdrop for the chapter's opening service.

The article reports on the Welcome Dinner and Soiree conducted by the Region II--New York-New Jersey Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, held at the Crane House in West Caldwell, New Jersey. Andrew Krystopolski, caretaker of the Crane House, hosted the event. The dinner was also in celebration of the 87th anniversary of the chapter.

The article focuses on the hymn festival co-sponsored by the Metropolitan New Jersey chapter of the American Guild of Organists with the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Montclair. The hymn festival which took place on May 20, 2007 celebrated the 150th anniversary of the church. Information is presented on the performers at the festival. It reports that the chapter's annual potluck dinner was hosted by Patricia Brady-Danzig.

The article reports on a recital by organist Ian Tomesch at Saint Mary's Abbey at the Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey on March 28, 2007. He received the college-level George Markey scholarship for 2006 and the George Markey POE scholarship in 2003. Tomesch studies organ with James David Christie at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.