The Sing Portland! Blog

It would be the understatement of the year to say that things have been a little dissonant lately. We’re constantly surrounded by news that goes from bad to worse; huge, much needed cultural upheavals that can leave us feeling raw; and the general sense of frustration...

Is your heart talking to you? Mine spoke to me when I was a teenager; it told me music was my thing, what I was made for. It told me to pursue a career as a musician. My parents told me otherwise. And I listened, at least for a while. I ignored my heart, suppressed my...

In case you haven’t noticed, we do things a little differently here at Sing Portland! (What can we say, we are in the capitol of “doing things a little differently”.) So if you’re thinking of switching choirs but you’re not quite sure what to expect, you should know…...

“Too late to start this now.” That’s what I heard over and over again when, at 31, I picked up a cello for the first time and decided to learn how to play. I started teaching a year later, and have now taught for 20 years. “Oh, that’s certainly too late.” That’s what...

“Mama, can you tell me a story?”   My son says this to me at least three times a day. He’s at the age where he doesn’t really care what I tell him, he can’t tell the difference between Little Red Riding Hood (i.e. a published story) or something else that I make up on...

When I saw the announcement for a workshop pop up in my email, I gasped. An opportunity to attend a choral conductor workshop in Cuba, placed perfectly in between two choir terms.   And then my brain immediately chimed in. “Who are you to go to this workshop? The kids...