"Singing is able to touch and join human beings in ways few other arts can.
Alice Parker is a wise and joyful thinker and writer on this truth, and has been
a hero in the universe of choral music as a composer, conductor, and teacher for
most of her 90 years. She began as a young woman, studying conducting with
Robert Shaw at Juilliard, and collaborated with him on arrangements of folk
songs, spirituals, and hymns that are still performed around the world
today."
More in this interview from On Being.
