Sound of Music is Saturday
Peabody streets will ring with music Saturday during the "Sound of Music," musical walk, sponsored by Peabody Historical Society.
The event lasts from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tickets are available in the basement of the Peabody Carnegie Library. Small groups will be guided from location to location around town.
Those performing include the Daughters of Zion quartet and Peabody Christian Church choir. Also important to any performer are the accompanists, which include Sonja Koslowsky and Annette Weems.
Daughters of Zion
The Daughters of Zion are no strangers to Peabody. They have sung during several Christmas Parade celebrations and at the Peabody State Bank 100th anniversary celebration. They have been singing together 10 years and have spun off into a group. Collectively, the women have five sons who now sing together as the SODZ — Sons of the Daughters of Zion.
Group members include Karen Andreas, Margaret Brewer, Marcene Entz, and Carol Klingenberg.
Andreas is a graduate of Bethel College with a degree in music and is a pastoral ministries graduate of Hesston College. She has taught private piano in her home and at Senseney Music, writes and arranges music for the quartet and others, and has accompanied the Bel Canto Singers at Hesston Choir. She is associate pastor at Tabor Mennonite Church and accompanies the adult choir.
Brewer is a familiar face around Peabody having performed during several drama productions in town as well as acting for the historical society during past cemetery tours. A graduate of Hesston College, Brewer is a registered nurse and has worked for the past 17 years at the Wichita Clinic -Bethel, Newton. She is active at Zion Mennonite Church and accompanies their junior choir.
Entz teaches music at South Breeze Elementary School in Newton. She received her music degree at Bethel College. An accomplished pianist, she accompanied the Newton Children's Choir for many years. She is adult and junior choir director at Tabor Mennonite Church and one of their pianists.
Klingenberg is another familiar Peabody face. She has taught private piano in her home for many years and accompanied students during various high school and 4-H competitions. She received her music education degree at Bethel College. She enjoys helping on the family farm and has participated in the Peabody farmer's market for several summers. Klingenberg serves as a secretary/bookkeeper for several area businesses. She is the junior choir director at Zion church, a position she's held for 25 years, and is one of the church organists and accompanies the adult choir.
Peabody Christian Church choir
Members who perform in the Peabody Christian Church choir represent former choir members who have sung in the Christian church since 1872.
The choir will perform old familiar hymns — some of which were probably new hymns back in 1872.
Choir members are Shirley Beisel, Alisa McDowell, Fred Berns, Jim Pohlman, Francis Berger, Maxine Seibel, and Sara Pohlman, who also serves as director. Joan Stovall is the accompanist.
Accompanists
Accompanists are an integral part of any performance and a good accompanist can make their performer sound better.
Sonja Koslowsky will accompany the singers in "The Wizard of Oz" production which takes place in front of Peabody Hardware. Koslowsky is a graduate of Shawnee Mission East High School. She received her degree in Spanish and English from Bethany Nazarene College in Bethany, Okla. She gives private piano lessons and is one of the pianists at the Baptist church. She has two children and nine grandchildren.
Annette Weems will accompany Injoy Fountain, who is performing in the grassy area south of Peabody Market. In case of rain, Fountain and Weems will perform on the back porch of the Morgan House.
Weems' undergraduate degree is from Emporia State University while her master's degree is from Friends University. Music always has been a hobby and she started playing at Burns United Methodist Church when she was only 10 years old. Coming from a musical family, Weems and her sister occasionally make music at the Methodist church. Her father used to sing in a Mennonite men's quartet and her mother used to play the saxophone. She teaches sixth grade in the Peabody schools this year.
For more information about the "Sound of Music" contact Janet Hamous at (620) 983-2438 or Marilyn Jones at (620) 983-2815.
