Association of Church Musicians records, 1947-2003.

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Association of Church Musicians (Madison, Wis.). Association of Church Musicians records, 1947-2003.

Association of Church Musicians records, 1947-2003.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/259283736

Records of both the Madison Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and its umbrella organization, the Association of Church Musicians (ACM). Before becoming incorporated as a chapter of the national organization in 1953, the Madison chapter of the AGO first organized in 1947 as the Wisconsin Association of Church Musicians (WACM) and in 1984 the AGO was incepted 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 Veteran's 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.

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

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives