By Kyle Monson
Disgruntled piano students will have their chance to wreak vengeance on their teachers at a music educator performance on June 20.
The concert is part of a two-week intensive training course for music teachers and will feature a 50-voice choir comprised of participants in the workshop.
“This workshop is training teachers, so the teachers are the students of the workshop,” said Martha Sargent of the BYU InterMuse Academy, which is sponsoring the training.
The training focuses on the methods of Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, which puts emphasis on folk music traditions to teach children about music.
“He was concerned that Hungarian children weren”t growing up musically literate, and they didn”t know their folk song heritage,” Sargent said. “This method uses elements of folk music and classical music, and really builds great musicians.”
Teachers must attend InterMuse workshops for three summers in order to obtain certification in Kodaly pedagogy and musicianship.
The concert is the culmination of the training, and will be conducted by Marta Sarosi-Szabo, associate professor of music theory and conducting at Debrecen University in Hungary, who was also one of Kodaly”s original students. The choir will perform works by Henry Purcell, Michael Haydn, Bela Bartok and Kodaly himself.
The concert will be in the Nelke Experimental Theater in the Harris Fine Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.
