Selected Profiles

As in amateur choruses everywhere, many of our members have interesting life stories. Most have made their way in life through nonmusical pursuits. In this section we tell some of these stories and explore some of those pursuits--occupational and otherwise. Our motive is to demonstrate that if you join us you will have the chance not only to sing great music but to associate with some pretty interesting and accomplished people.

Contents

• Simmy Bank: He's very good at looking up things
  
• Roy Bennett: He wrote songs for the stars
  
• Gilda Hecht: She likes to put the pieces together
  
• Michael Leavitt: 'I knew I was going to be in music'
  
• Hermine Plotnick: Schizophrenia is her second language
  
• Ellen Rosen: Higher productivity was her goal
  
• Claude Springer: 'I fell in love with writing poetry'
  
• Emily Taitz: She put women in the history books