Kaufman selected to sing with the All-Ohio State Fair Youth Choir
July 29, 2013
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Alyssa Kaufman, daughter of John and Wendy Kaufman of Wooster, has been selected to sing with the 51st edition of the All-Ohio State Fair Youth Choir. Kaufman will be one of the 200 high school singers from all points in Ohio who will sing with the choir at the 12-day Ohio State Fair, July 24-August 4.
As a student at Smithville High School, Kaufman has participated in Chamber Choir, Choralettes, Debonaires and Green Local Drama Club under the direction of Kelly Riley.
Founded in 1963 by Glenville D. Thomas, the Youth Choir has appeared in concert around Ohio and abroad, marched in a number of national parades and has sung for several gubernatorial inaugurations.
Since 1992, the All-Ohio Youth Choir has been led by Charles R. Snyder, Coshocton. Snyder is the director of music at The Presbyterian Church, Coshocton, and music director and conductor of the Coshocton Community Choir, a 100-voice auditioned ensemble he founded in 1971. He also conducts the Coshocton Childrens Choir, a regional choir for young singers in grades four through eight that he organized in 1987. In 2002, he created the Coshocton Youth Chorale, a high school ensemble that includes 52 singers from several counties.
After converging at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus July 18, choir members will spend five days in rigorous rehearsals prior to the official opening of the 158th Ohio State Fair on Wednesday, July 24. Each day of the fair the Youth Choir will sing for some 60,000 fairgoers as they perform at six to eight sites on the 360-acre grounds in more than 100 performances over the run of the fair. On Saturday, August 3, the choir will be joined by hundreds of alumni in a celebration of song.
The Youth Choirs 2013 show is entitled Sing Together, a musical celebration of the unifying gift of song.
