Music teachers, scholars and choral conductors from all continents but Africa have arrived in Kecskemet, C Hungary, to attend the 25th Kodaly music seminar and festival, an organiser told MTI on Sunday.
The three-week course, named after eminent 20th-century composer and music teacher Zoltan Kodaly, will start on July 20. It will be attended by nearly 120 participants from almost all European nations and Japan, Australia, the United States, South Korea, Malaysia, Canada and Brazil, Laura Keri of the Zoltan Kodaly Pedagogical Institute of Music said.
Kodaly not only collected folk songs - an undertaking that brought him together with his contemporary Bela Bartok - but also developed various techniques for teaching music to young children; techniques which he formulated into a method that became widespread throughout Hungary under his guidance.
Kodaly incorporated many of his own compositions and collected folk-songs into his teaching materials, particularly for the training of choirs.
The daily sessions will be followed by concerts of choirs and orchestras in the evenings.
The first international music seminar was organised three years after Kodaly's death, in 1970 in Kecskemet, his native town.
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