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From: Whole Earth
Date: 20011222
Author:Perry, Patricia

How Can 
We Keep 
from Singing 
Music and the 
Passionate Life 
Joan Oliver 
Goldsmith 
2001; 223 pp. 
$22.95 
W.W. Norton 

For me, a lifelong choir addict, singing has always been a golden thread leading through--though not out of--the labyrinth of experience. Joan Goldsmith agrees. Her autobiographical meditation upon choral music as amateur career, therapy, and metaphor for life may move you to try it, or try it again, or try whatever other activity your own "invisible instrument" (not necessarily your voice) may suggest. For Ms. Goldsmith singing is a great joy, but no ...

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