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Photo album of students from the Dana School of Music visiting Hungarian students, Kecskemet and Kalocsa, Hungary, April 20-29, 1970

1970-04-20-1970-04-299 x 12 cmPhotograph, documentarymonochromeJump to full detailsRequest from Special Collections

Summary:Album contains 76 candid photographs of Denise Bacon's pilot class of Kodaly-trained students from the Dana School of Music visiting Kecskemet, Hungary, in April 1970. The pilot class is photographed meeting and singing with Hungarian students from the Zoltan Kodaly Primary School in Kecskemet in classrooms and in concerts. The American students visit the town of Kalocsa, where Hungarian children in traditional costumes sing and perform folk dances, and are photographed trying on traditional Hungarian dresses. A strip of fabric with a handwritten dedication in Hungarian is enclosed in the album. Also included is a greeting card with an image of Zoltan Kodaly on the cover and text printed inside that reads, "Singing enriches one's life, singers[,] even that of others' - Kodaly. In memory of the days in Kecskemet, 20-29 April 1970."
Century:1901-2000
Place of origin – Continent:Europe
Place of origin – Country:Republic of Hungary
Place of origin – Settlement:Kecskemet
Kalocsa
Budapest
Temporal subject: 1961-1970
Geographical subject – Continent:Europe
Geographical subject – Country:Republic of Hungary
Geographical subject – Settlement:Kecskemet
Kalocsa
Topical subjects: Bacon, Denise
Voros, Janos
Nemesszeghy, Sarolta
Szőnyi, Erzsébet
Péczely-Kodály, Sarolta
Dana School of Music
Zoltan Kodaly Primary School
Music education
School children
Performances
Genre:Photograph albums
ArchivesUM location:Kodaly Center of America Archives (SCPA)
Repository:Special Collections in Performing Arts
Browse terms:Performing Arts, Music
Education
Copyright holder:unknown
Collection:Digital Collections
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