by Marion | Oct 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Is it the person you’ve known since you were a 5 year old kid running round your yard, playing catch? Is it the one person you know you can call to pick your kids up from school when you get a flat tire on your way home from work? Maybe it’s your college buddies,...
by Marion | Aug 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
What do Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Judy Garland all have in common? Apart from being ridiculously talented that is … can you guess? You’ve got it: they all played Carnegie hall. And as of March next year, you’ll be able to add Sing Portland! to that list! No, I...
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…...
