Laudatio: A 70 ÉVES DR. KÖPECZI KIRKÓSA JÚLIA MŰVÉSZNŐ KÖSZÖNTÉSE [SALUTATIONS TO THE ARTIST DR. KIRKÓSA JÚLIA TURNING 70]

Abstract

Our dear fellow Teacher, on the occasion of Your 70th birthday let us, the entire teaching staff and the students, thank You for everything. Thank you! Thank you! Thank You for everything we heard and learned from You! And I personally would like to thank You for three other things. The first one is that when we started the Hungarian Musical Pedagogy Faculty at our Department and we had no teachers and I personally asked You to help us You were ready to do that. Thank you for saying ‘yes’ at that difficult time! The second thank you is for all those canto classes which I overheard over the years working in my study at the faculty. I can honestly say that on those days when there was no canto class and everything was still I came to miss the voice of singing and thrumming on the piano. By every exam period I knew by heart every canto repertory of the various semesters, too. And the third thank you goes for the fact that You improved our life and environment not only with Your singing, but also with all those potted flowers with which You decorated our corridors. Every pot of flower kept reflecting Your smile and Your infinite love for beauty. Dear fellow Teacher may You have many happy returns of the day in the midst of Your family and us so that You may keep beautifying our lives with Your singing and music as August Rush writes: music is a harmonious link not only between the various beings, but also between the starts, the nearest state to stillness, which is able to express the inexpressible. May the Lord richly and infinitely bless You so that You will continue to express the artistic beauty and meaning of the inexpressible in this world.

Ad multos annos dear fellow Teacher!