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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, August 09, 2012
Mount Ayr Community students Jessie Ricker, Sarah Campbell and Christiana Overholtzer;
Bedford students Rebecka Carpenter and Hannah Marcum; Winterset students Ellie Akers, Jarret Jorgenson, Zac Rodgers,
Emmy Wells and Katy Winter, and East Union student Taylor Mayne and sponsors Greg and Crystal Storhoff are shown
at a stop in Switzerland on the Iowa Ambassadors of Music tour
MACHS students performon European music tour
Area music students on the Iowa Ambassadors of Music European tour where students spent 16 days in a whirlwind tour of
Britain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Germany earlier this summer. Jessie RICKER, Sarah CAMPBELL and
Christiana OVERHOLTZER from Mount Ayr Community high school performed with the Ambassadors Choir on the trip. Hannah
MARCUM and Rebecka CARPENTER from Bedford Community high school and Taylor MAYNE from East Union Community high school
performed with the Ambassadors Band. Going along, as advisors were Greg and Crystal STORHOFF, who also performed with
the choir. These local students were part of a select group from across Iowa. The 2012 tour was a 19-day event that
included three days of rehearsal in Grinnell with a farewell concert on campus on July 3. The Ambassadors then had a
16-day concert tour covering England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy and Liechtenstein. The students
performed concerts in each country except Liechtenstein. Directing the band was former Hawkeye band director Dr.
Morgan JONES, and the choir director is former Wartburg choir director Dr. Paul TORKLESON. Iowa Ambassadors of Music
tour Europe on alternate years. To be considered for membership in IAM, students must be recommended by their school
music teachers as having superior music skills and possessing high character. After this initial recommendation, the
students are contacted about the opportunity to participate as an Iowa Music Ambassador. The students performed in
either the band or choir on the tour. Nearly 60 advisors accompanied them. The Iowa Ambassadors of Music have toured
Europe in 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010. In past years Mount Ayr Community
area students have been on several tours.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2012
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