The next AGS meeting is Saturday May 4th, 2024 at 7:30 pm. See details below. We will also meet on the followings Saturdays: June 1, 2024.
MEETING INFO | PROGRAMS/NEWSLETTERS | PERFORMER SIGNUP | VIDEOS | SPECIAL MEETINGS
The AGS has now resumed our normal schedule of “in person” monthly meetings. You can receive our monthly newsletter by joining AGS. Please plan on attending a live, in-person AGS meeting.
Our May 4th, 2024 AGS meeting will take place in Room 104 of the Los Angeles Valley College Music Building at 7:30 pm. The Music Building is located in the northwest corner of the campus at the corner of Fulton Avenue and Oxnard Street in Valley Glen. Ample parking is available in Lot B, to the north of the Music Building. Please do not park in Lot C or the Faculty/Staff lot. One may enter Lot B from either Fulton Avenue, just south of Oxnard Street or from Oxnard Street by turning into Campus Drive.
Note, the Orange Line Busway (which connects to the Red Metro Line) has an exit for Valley College at Burbank Blvd and Fulton Ave, then walk (about 10 minutes) north on Fulton Ave to the music building.
Programs & Newsletters
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Program from AGS meeting held April 6th, 2024
Program For Meeting of May 4th, 2024 7:30 pm
AGS Newsletter for April 2024
Sign up to perform at our May 4th AGS meeting.
Please use this Sign-up Form to register your performance for the May 4th meeting. We will confirm your registration back to you within 48. Follow the guidelines as spelled out below to sign up.
The program for AGS meetings is limited to 90 minutes. The sign up period ends the Wednesday before our May 4th meeting. Note, your total program should be no longer than 15 minutes. If you have any questions, need to cancel, or make an exception, or if you prefer to call in your program, please contact Michael Camp at (818) 793-8176 or email him at michael_ags@yahoo.com. Sign up for the June meeting will open up after the May 4th meeting is adjourned.
Your signup selections will be confirmed with you via email within 48 hours of your submission of this sign-up form.
When filling in the form, don’t forget to push the SEND button and please be specific: please give full names of works and movements (if any). If available, add opus numbers. Use the prefix trans. for transcriber (trans. John Doe). Accent marks are optional; however, mobile phone users can view accent marks on their keyboard by holding the letter to be accented.
Only items listed with an asterisk * on the entry form are required. A piece with one or more movements is considered one selection. List multiple short pieces by the same composer, like etudes, preludes, etc., as one selection. If you are playing more than 3 short pieces by various composers, use a combination of entry forms that equal the number of your selections.
For ensembles, list name of group, if any, in the Performer(s) box. Example: Mendocino Guitar Duo, Brian Palmer and Oscar Lewis. For mixed duets, trio, quartets, etc., list performers and instruments. Example: John Doe, guitar, Alice Smith, piano, Janet Jones, voice, etc.
Finally, AGS needs to know the total length of your performance in minutes to ensure that the meeting ends at a reasonable time. Please be careful to state your playing time correctly. Sign up early to ensure your place on the program as the program can fill up very quickly. Note, if there is a conflict due to our scholarship programs, preference will be given to the scholarship participants.
If you wish to modify your previously submitted program or make corrections, re submit this form with a comment indicating this in the Message box. Also, using the Message box, you can list the maker of your guitar or unusual guitar tuning or make a dedication. Examples: Guitar: Ramirez, and/or Tuning: 5=G, 6=C, and/or Valse Lento is dedicated to...,etc.
And here is something new to use the Message box for. The Achuff Challenge Incentive is now in effect. This means that in each month, the 1st performer or group to sign up to play a piece from the AGS VOB Library of 20 booklets of music will receive a $20 cash incentive gift from AGS. Just state in the Message box that a piece you are performing qualifies under the Achuff Challenge Incentive. (Click here for info.) This Challenge Incentive is meant to help our players and audience be aware of the marvelous pieces of guitar music that VOB created for her students and AGS members to perform from. (See the AGS Library tab and download some great classical music scores!)
Videos from prior AGS Meetings
Lute Suite, BWV 1006a composed by J. S. Bach
Performed at AGS meeting by Cameron O’Connor, September 10, 2016
Laudate Dominum from Solemn Vespers, K 339W, composed by W.A. Mozart, transcribed for guitar duet by R. Ravenscroft.
Performed at the American Guitar Society on July 11, 2015 by Alex Park & Wesley Park.
A lovely piece written by Rafael Olmedo (1837-1899.) This piece was published by Rico Stover (Querico Publications) in a collection of pieces by this composer.
Berceuse composed by Robert Mayeur
Performed at the American Guitar Society on February 7, 2015 by J. C. De Luna.
AGS Special Meetings
In May of each year, AGS awards the Denner Scholarship to local college students of the classical guitar. AGS invites these Denner award recipients to perform their favorite guitar piece at the May AGS monthly meeting. AGS always delights in hearing and seeing the youth learn the traditions and repertoires of the classical guitar. See our Denner Scholarship Tab for more information on this.
In November of each year, AGS conducts our annual Vahdah Olcott Bickford Competition Event. Eight classical students of ages 8-13 (Junior Division,) and eight students of ages 13 - 18 (Senior Division) sign up to participate and compete for a cash prize. Judges are professors from the local area. This meeting is reserved for competition participants only. The audience is generally filled to capacity and all enjoy hearing these students bring forth their finest efforts on the classical guitar.
In January of each year, AGS often selects a gifted member, or a local professional guitarist to provide what we call a “showcase” performance. The artist is given the 2nd half of the program, generally, 45 minutes, to perform their favorite pieces for the audience. The 1st half of the program is provided by AGS members who have signed up via the normal methods.
AGS takes a summer sabbatical each year meaning that there are no July and August meetings. All other months we welcome AGS members (or prospective members) to sign up and perform at an AGS meeting.