Tohoku University Musical Exchange Creates Lifetime Memories

Japanese students join Women’s Chorus to traverse geographies and cultures.

Just two days into their two-week exchange trip to Charlotte, the 17 students from Japan’s Tohoku University were scattered across the floor of Robinson Hall lobby, sitting in circles with members of the Women’s Chorus and laughing as they discussed foods they would “never eat.” Professor Ginger Wyrick, director of the Women’s Chorus, also known as The Charlotteans, and orchestrator of the “getting to know you” games, had just led the full group of 110 voices in their first rehearsal together and now was encouraging them to chat.

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