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KAREN MIHALYI & ALISON MULLAN-STOUT
Connecting music to peace Lorna Oppedisano
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hen she was in her mid-20s, Karen Mihalyi read the book “What Color Is Your Parachute? Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success.” It gave her three answers. “One was be an activist. One was do healing work — counseling. And the other was do music — do the choir. Lo and behold, here I am, many years later, and that’s how I’ve arranged my life,” Karen said. Now, after decades of leading the Syracuse Community Choir as founder and executive director, Karen is restructuring the organization with the help of Alison Mullan-Stout, assistant to the director. Karen discovered her love of singing at a young age, when she organized a singing group that performed around the small town where she grew up. She followed that path through her childhood, singing in choirs and musicals at school. “I was going to study music at Syracuse University, but then the Vietnam War happened,” she said. Karen decided to put all her efforts into stopping the war. When students went on strike against the war, she dropped out of college to devote her time and energy to peace work. After spending a year in Europe, she returned and cofounded the Women’s Information Center and worked on antiwar projects. Around that
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