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Guess who’s singing beside you? Suzanne Cohen
Elementary teacher, mother of three, crafter, good friend, and an alto and volunteer with SGC's Dementia-friendly Evanston Choir Sounds Good Choir “has been a salvation for me,” says Suzanne Cohen. “It is such a positive experience for me to be able to sing again. And...
Guess who’s singing beside you? SGC Tenor, Alan Hoffstadter
If you exchange emails with Alan Hoffstadter, you will see the phrase, “Give Blood... Give Life!” under his signature. To Alan it’s more than a slogan. He devoted his professional life to ensuring a safe and ample supply of donated blood. A “born and bred” Chicagoan,...
Song Spotlight: “Our House”
Our House Graham Nash, arr. Ed Lojeski Graham Nash was the only English member of the iconic supergroup known as Crosby, Stills and Nash. The group rose in 1968 like a phoenix from the ashes of other groups: Crosby had been asked to leave The Byrds a year earlier;...
Sounds Good Choir: Research Update
Leading up to our holiday concerts in December, the question I heard most often (aside from, “What’s our call time for the concert warm-up?”) is “What’s happening with the research project… aren’t you almost finished with it?” That’s actually not an easy question to...
Singer profile: Rosalie Fruchter
Rosalie Fruchter is the teacher you wish you’d had in second grade: a teacher who turned square dancing into a math lesson; created an archeology “dig” with broken pottery; and showed enough confidence in her students to let them grade their own papers. In a 40-year...
Feels Like Home – Belonging… finally.
On my ninth birthday, my family’s moving van arrived on the South Side of Chicago. For a nerdy white kid from the Boston suburbs—meaning me—starting from scratch in the relative rough-and-tumble of Chicago’s public schools was a big change. And with one exception, up...