Zoltán Kodály

Far, a long, long way to run.

Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály thought singing was at the heart of all music, so he took solfege and combined it with folk songs to come up with a method to teach people to read and write music.

Jill Trinka teaches the Kodály method.

She says it starts in kindergarten with very basic things.

He was born in 1882.

It's a year where Igor Stravinsky was born, and George Enescu was born, and Zoltan Kodaly was born.

Uh, who else was born in 1882? I'm thinking.

So, and Szymanowski too, of course.

they were bringing sound to the truth that they wanted to embody.

And, uh, so I, I feel like in our modern world, um, m- very much as pr- was predicted by Zoltán Kodály 120 years ago, the advent of recorded music will change people from being music producers into being music consumers.

And so now mostly what people do is they go and find something to listen to on Spotify or YouTube or whatever they've got.

Um, but so few people rarely have an opportunity to, to sing together, to play music together, to dance together.

Before moving to Colorado, Jared led a high school vocal music program in Ohio where he directed the choral ensembles, annual musicals, and taught electives such as adaptive music for differently abled students.

He's level three Kodály certified through the secondary choral track at Capital University and studied at the Zoltan Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary.

So we are thrilled to have Jared Joseph with us today.

Welcome, Jared.

For sure.

[upbeat music] And now our main theme is a conversation with Jared Joseph, and, um, he's gonna be presenting a Rocky workshop.

We are very excited to have him for the regional organization of Colorado Kodály Educators.

Uh, so Jared, with your work on the Children's Chorale here in Colorado, you direct an elementary choir, and you also co-direct the high school choir.

And then we're going to go to the upper hemisphere and see what they have to say.

I wondered how familiar you were with Zoltán Kodály, who is a Hungarian composer.

He has a quote which occurred to me as you were speaking, and I've looked it up and I wondered if you could comment on it.

He said, in about the 1920s, Our age of mechanisation leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine.