Kids Have A Voice With MIO

By Laura Kennedy

Published December 9, 2015 at 7:30 AM CST

The Midwest Institute of Opera helps young people appreciate and perform music. But as founders John and Tracy Koch have discovered, the kids have a lot to teach them, too.

John and Tracy are opera singers, but also try to instill the love of all music -- including Duke Ellington -- in the young people they mentor.

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Reporter, content producer and former All Things Considered host, Laura Kennedy is a native of the Midwest who occasionally affects an English accent just for the heck of it. Related to two U.S. presidents, Kennedy appalled her family by going into show business.

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