MCM College collaborated with The Consulate General of Hungary to Hong Kong & Macao to organise a workshop for students and faculty by accomplished Hungarian musician/choir conductor/music lecturer from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.Dr Nóra Keresztes, a Kodály Choral expert, visited Hong Kong and Macao in March as part of her Asian Tour (Saigon-Hong Kong-Tokyo) and MCMC was delighted to host her in Macao.
The Kodály Choral method is an internationally acclaimed approach to music education, developed in Hungary during the mid-twentieth century by Hungarian composer, Zoltán Kodály. It has been promulgated throughout the world with Kodály Academies established most notably in China, US, UK, to name but three countries of strong development. It is greatly admired as it achieves very impressive results of high musicianship quality and standard in its pupils and students.
Thus, a capacity audience awaited the arrival of Dr Keresztes, who sadly had succumbed to a particularly virulent virus depriving her of any voice. She had kindly, in collaboration with the Consulate, brought everyone a Kodály Gift Bag, and was able to show a beautiful film about the philosophy and developments world-wide of this amazing choral method.
Afterwards many students expressed a wish to attend a Kodály Choral course in the future to learn more about this incredible music education system. |