Arpad Darazs (7 July 1922 – 16 December 1986) was a Hungarian-American music educator who was widely known as one of the few in the Western hemisphere as an authority on the Kodály method of choral instruction.
The boys' choir not only sang on the Sonny Fox show, but also on a Christmas album with Andre Kostelanetz, as well as with the Leonard Bernstein at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the United Nations.
Darazs was born in Jászberény, Hungary, and graduated from the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Budapest, where he received diplomas in conducting (1944), music education (1946), and teaching applied music in college (1946).
[2] The topic of his dissertation was, "A study of the Zoltan Kodaly approach to music reading and its application to the high school selective choral organization."
In 1981 he founded the Palmetto Mastersingers, which is an all-male chorus that went on to win critical acclaim at competitions in Hungary and Wales (1984).