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March 11, 2016
Children’s Choir prepares to share voices in Europe By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
When the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir travels to Europe this summer, the young singers will have a unique musical moment on their itinerary. The youths will visit famed locations and even sing in beautiful cathedrals, Executive Artistic Director Jonathan Busarow said. “Unlike other visitors to Hungary, our students will have an opportunity to demonstrate their command of the Kodály method as active participants with their Hungarian peers when they visit the Kodály (“Ko-dye”) Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary,” he said. Busarow said Zoltan Kodály created the music methodology that the children’s choir follows daily. “The Kodály method teaches students how to be musically literate,” Busarow said.
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Allison Gutierrez and Allison McQueen share in a program with the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir’s Concert Choir.
In an email, he explained: “The Kodály method uses a set of syllables, solfege, to teach people to read music.” Busarow said 39 members from the Concert Choir and the Youth Chorale — the high school ensemble — will leave June 24 to perform in Hungary,
Germany and Austria. They will return July 3. “We’ve been fundraising for this tour for two years, and the students have been fundraising like crazy for this trip, and to date students have raised $13,000,” Busarow said. The youth will visit composers’ birthplaces, the Hungarian parliament
Ukulele club entertains Saturday pizza patrons By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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Mike and Susan Rauch of the Village of Buckingham in Fort Wayne play “Let it Be Me” for the TRU Ukes Club at the Village of Coventry Pizza Hut.
TRU UKES The Fort Wayne Area Ukulele Club plays for the public at 11 a.m. the fourth Saturday of each month at Pizza Hut, 5735 Coventry Lane, Fort Wayne. The music is free.
share it,” he said. McConnell, a Ball State University biology professor, has been playing with the TRU group since it was organized about four years
ago. He met most of the musicians while playing dulcimers at events at Folkcraft Instruments in Woodburn. See UKES, Page A7
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A salad bar separated the lunch crowd from 21 idle ukuleles. Then the TRU Ukes Club strummed the opening notes of “All My Lovin’ ” to the delight of followers and surprised guests at the Village of Coventry Pizza Hut. Club members meet at the Fort Wayne restaurant at 11 a.m. the fourth Saturday of each month. Their music is free to the public. “Can’t Help Falling in Love” with a reggae twist was heard next. For 90 minutes, soloists, duets and the entire club played and sang songs from decades past. Tom McConnell offered a song from 2013. “The song is called ‘Be With Me’ by Suzie Brown, and I worked out chords for it and I thought I’d
Musicians from the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra join the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir at IPFW. The professional musicians would accompany the youth to the American Choral Directors Association conference in Chicago.
building, and “The Sound of Music” filming locations. This will mark the 13th international tour in the FWCC’s 43-year history. Busarow shared
those observations in comments to parents and supporters at a Feb. 22 concert at IPFW’s Rhinehart Recital Hall, where the Concert Choir presented the program
they would repeat Feb. 25 at the American Choral Directors Association conference in Chicago. Busarow said the See CHOIR, Page A6