by Marion | Jul 15, 2018 | Community, Creative Expression, Good Enough, True to you, Uncategorized
Let me tell you the story of Carol and John. I guarantee if you’d seen them at choir you’d have wanted to know more about them — they had a way of standing out. Carol was suffering from a degenerative disease, the results of which were partial blindness and dementia....
by Marion | May 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Marion | Apr 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Marion | Apr 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
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…...
by Marion | Feb 14, 2018 | Creative Expression, Good Enough, Inner Work, True to you, Uncategorized
If you had told me two years ago that the day would come when I would stand up and teach at the same event as Ysaye Barnwell, MaMuse, and Kate Munger, I probably would have laughed. The idea of being invited to teach the thing I love best in the world, alongside the...
by Marion | Feb 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
“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...
