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Joe Huszti Reunion Weekend
Joe Huszti Reunion Weekend
Topics: Choral music, Huszti Reunion
Originally posted on Bakersfield.com Mon May 5, 2008 10:40:45 PDT
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Contact: Ramona Gia | ggia@igalaxy.net | 661.872.1480
If you were a Bakersfield College Choir member from 1959 to 1967, or sang with the California Chamber Chorale in the early Seventies, you were fortunate to work with our director, Joseph Huszti. In 1965, Joe took 48 singers on a European tour that resulted in a first-place win at the International Eistedfodd Festival in Wales. There were other honors on the trip, including audiences and performances for Pope Paul VI in Rome and for President Lyndon Johnson in Washington, D.C.
Joe moved on to the University of Delaware and to Boston College before settling in at the University of California, Irvine where he has continued to garner prizes and praise with his choral groups.
In the early Seventies, Joe made monthly trips to Bakersfield to direct the California Chamber Chorale that performed here and in Fresno and Visalia.
On Friday May 30 and Saturday May 31 Joe will be in Bakersfield to direct his Irvine choral group, Men in Blaque. A reunion with Joe has been planned for that weekend. If you would like to attend, please call Ramona Gia at 872-1480. It should be a wonderful weekend of music and remembrances.
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