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Our director of music, Carlene Neihart, is also organist at Unity Temple on the Plaza, an active concert organist, formerly taught organ at UMKC and Park College, and continues to teach privately. She has played recitals and given workshops all across the United States and Canada, and has performed 13 times in Europe. She has played for many universities, church organ dedications and concert series, American Guild of Organists chapters, and American Guild of Organists conventions. In 1982, Mrs. Neihart represented the United States in nine concerts in the Netherlands in celebration and recognition of Two Hundred Years of Dutch-United States relationships. She was also selected by the National Endowment of the Arts to play organ recitals overseas under the auspices of the United States Department and the American Embassies. In 1984 she was named United States Solo Recitalist by the National Endowment for the arts. She was named both the Kansas Touring Artist and the Missouri Touring Artist. She was chosen as the Outstanding Graduate in Music for the last 50 years from Pittsburg State College, Pittsburgh, Kansas. In May she will be honored as the 2003 Kansas City Outstanding Musician by the Kansas City Music Club. Mrs. Neihart has been chosen for Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who of American Musicians, Who's Who of Musicians in the World, Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century, International Who's Who in Music and Who's Who of American Keyboard Artists. |