When Choir Is Family

Psychotherapist Roberta Israeloff reflects movingly on the impact of choir singing on her own life and the community in "Not All Families Are Related by Blood" in the August 2012 Psychotherapy Networker magazine. Here's an excerpt:

We usually think of generativity in terms of offspring, but singing together is also a generative act. We sing tonight, but our eyes are on the future. We're not only making room for Mozart in our own lives: We're inviting others to take him in, too. It isn't just the music that moves me. If a family is a group of people among whom more is unspoken than expressed, defined by all that doesn't have to be explained, then this is my musical family.
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