Summary Information

Title: Association of Church Musicians Records
Inclusive Dates: 1947-2003

Creator:

• Association of Church Musicians (Madison, Wis.)

Call Number: Mss 1014

Quantity: 5.4 c.f. (12 archives boxes and 1 flat box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of both the Madison Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and its umbrella organization, the Association of Church Musicians (ACM). The Madison chapter of the AGO first organized in 1947 as the Wisconsin Association of Church Musicians (WACM) and incorporated as a chapter of the national Guild of Organists in 1953. In 1984 the AGO was integrated into the ACM. The group organized annual programs such as the Pipe Organ Encounter, Church Music Day, and its annual choir festival, and was also responsible for establishing the Louise Fulcher Memorial Library of Sacred Choral and Organ Music in 1949 and procuring a chapel organ for the Wisconsin Veterans Hospital in 1966. The bulk of the material in the collection was produced in the course of planning the various AGO-sponsored events, registering its members, and carrying out its standard administrative functions. Also included in the collection are the papers of Ruth Pilger Andrews (1905-1996), the Madison chapter's founding member.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss01014

 ↑ Bookmark this ↑

 ↑ Bookmark this ↑