A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 34. (Békéscsaba, 2011)
S. Turcsányi Ildikó: Dokumentumok a Békés-Tarhosi Énekiskola (1946-1954) életéről
S. Turcsányi Ildikó GULYÁS 1988 Gulyás György: Bűneim... Bűneim? Békés, 1988. GYARMATH 2001 Gyarmath Olga: Tudsz-e Tarhosért lelkesedéssel dolgozni? Békés, 2001. Documents on the Life of the Békés-Tarhos Singing School (1946 to 1954) in the Bequest of Dr. Olga Gyarmath- Ildikó S. Turcsányi - Resume Dr. Olga Gyarmath, 83, a retired grammar school pedgogue, a one-time teacher of the Tarhos Singing School, first the secretary then the vice-president of the Békés-Tarhos Circle of Friends, died in 2007. Acceding to her request, 500 valuable documents, part of her bequest, were donated to Jantyik Mátyás Museum in Békés. The most valuable parts of the collection are made up of the document dating from the short time of service (1947 to 1954) of the first state-run singing and music elementary school founded by György Gulyás. Based on Kodály’s principles, the school tried to support talented provincial children. We hereby wish, in chronological order, to report on some of these documents of high value. The pupils’ lists, the excercise-books, the drawings, the test-papers, the reportbooks and the credit slips illustrate the pupils’ every life, while the syllabi, the teachers’ notes, the form master’s reports, the invitations, the information sheets, the director’s instructions and the other official documents advise of the operation of the school. The most valuable piece of the bequest is a library loan booklet which contains signatures like those of Sándor Szokolay, composer, and István Csukás, poet, who were pupils of the school at the time. S. Turcsányi Ildikó Jantyik Mátyás Múzeum H-5630 Békés, Széchenyi tér 4. E-mail: turcsányi. ildiko@freemail. hu 348
