Certification
Dear Colleagues,
Have you carefully read the AGO’s Mission Statement, wondering how it pertains to you personally? Does it provide a rationale for your involvement with our prestigious organization? Do you continue your membership mainly in order to “promote the organ” or “encourage excellence in…performance” or is it more important to you that it “provide a forum for mutual support, inspiration, education, and certification of Guild members?”
Actually, the primary purpose for establishing the AGO in 1896 was to administer the awarding of degrees through examinations. To this end, the AGO was chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. We are an educational body.
Although there are no mandatory skill standards for membership in the AGO, our motto, Soli Deo Gloria, strongly suggests that each member is on a path toward excellence, honing his/her skills in order to burnish a more-radiant musical offering to God.
Friends, each of us is on what a seminar leader once termed “a lifetime ladder of learning.” It would be a privilege for me if you would allow me to help you move up that ladder through study for one of the Guild’s certification exams.
Take a look at the various exam requirements here and contact me to facilitate the process. I can be reached at bor33166@yahoo.com and at 305-888-0447.
Betty O. Rice