Like so many people, in so many different fields, choir leaders have had a tough time over the last year and a half.

We’ve had to pivot, to come up with new, COVID-safe ways of uniting our singers, we’ve had to adapt financially as our businesses took a serious hit.

And we’ve had to do it all with...

My first in-person rehearsal since the pandemic was strange, disorienting. Because it wasn’t my old choir.

Literally, in one respect: I hadn’t previously met at least a third of the people there.

And figuratively too, because none of us are the same people we were 16 months ago.

I know I’ve chang...

What if my singers, my friends, my most beloved choir members have become strangers?

It was a fleeting thought that came to me as I recently returned to Sing Portland! and in-person choir practice after 15 months of nothing but Zoom sessions — a thought that I couldn’t quite shake.

And it wasn’t j...