Today KCA continues as an incorporated non-profit institution with a Board of Trustees. Since 1999 it has been and is primarily an historical organization under voluntary leadership, with only part-time help for archival work. Its current purposes are

1. to organize and catalogue those documents that record KMTI's early history from 1969 to 1976, when it was under Denise Bacon's direction, and to maintain these as a separate division of the KCA Archives;
2. to preserve the history of KCA and KMTI and their role in the development of the American Kodály movement, and their relationship to Hungarian music education;
3. to maintain the records that constitute the KCA/KMTI Archives for purposes of scholarly research;
4. to help disseminate KCA publications and other materials relating to the Kodály concept (class room texts, folk song collections, choral octavos).

Today, as we face 21st century challenges, KCA recognizes the financial impossibility of independence and the difficulties in maintaining standards it had formerly established. KCA's board and its founder have agreed that KCA should cease efforts to find a suitable institution with which to merge, and that it should not seek to impose a standard which may no longer be possible in today's society. Both believe that KCA and the early KMTI under Denise Bacon's direction should be remembered as a catalytic force that spawned the American Kodály movement, rather than as an institution merely trying to perpetuate its existence.

KCA will continue to exist until work on its archives has been completed and they have been transferred to their permanent resting place. This is a large project requiring time and money. Completion, with final transfer to Kecskemét and the University of Maryland Libraries is anticipated in late 2004 and 2005.

KCA's future is its history, which includes its faculty, its graduates, its publications and its leadership - these will be the task of future researchers to explore, to write about and to preserve.

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