On to Cluj

    On Sunday, we returned to the airport to fly to Cluj, where Ellen is scheduled to participate in the Jubilate! festival. This festival features many musicians from other countries as well as local, and the chorus, made up primarily of members of the Romanian Baptist Church where the rehearsals are conducted.
    The Jubilate! festival is the brainchild of Ken Tucker, a highly musical missionary in Romania for thirteen years or so.

The featured work is The Creation, by Franz Josef Haydn.
    Ken and his wife Laura started life together in Brussels, where he completed certificates in piano & chamber music. They moved to Oradia, Romania, where he became music director of the music school of Emmanuel Bible Institute, later known as Emmanuel University, for ten years. Then they were called to a church in Cluj, for last seven years.