Bach and Beyond at Marmion Abbey

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The 25th Annual “Bach and Beyond at the Marmion Abbey” concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 26, in the Abbey Church, 850 Butterfield Road in Aurora.

The public is invited. Admission and parking are free. A door-offering donation will be accepted.

The annual program is sponsored by the Fox Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO).

The program will feature 10 local organists who will play one of the Fox Valley area’s finest pipe organs. The program will feature six major organ works by J.S. Bach, which has been tradition.

Featured will be two works by contemporaries of Bach, Georg Bohm and Karl Heinrich Graun. The congregational hymn, “Now Thank We All Our God” will be sung.

For more information, call AGO program chairman, Karl Bruhn at 630-879-7655, or send E-mail to karl.bruhn.ago@gmail.com.

—Al Benson

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