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Churches concerned about shortage of organists.(Neighbor)

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From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Date: 20010318
Author:Spak, Kara

Byline: Kara Spak Daily Herald Staff Writer

"The organ is in truth the grandest, the most daring, the most magnificent of all instruments invented by human genius."

So wrote scribe Honore de Balzac many decades ago, and the 200 weekly organ concert attendees in Elgin and Dundee Township would most likely agree.

But some wonder how much longer the instrument's majestic pipes will sing as fewer and fewer students are taking up the organ.

Phyllis Connelly, director of music and organist at St. James Episcopal Church in West Dundee, said churches are feeling the ...

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