LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
HUFFINGTON
05.19.13
Final
Songs
and Free
Spirits
n this week’s issue,
Jaweed Kaleem
looks at threshold
choirs, a growing
movement using a capella song
to soothe the dying.
“Words are good for many
things, but they don’t seem sufficient when it comes to death,”
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says Ellen Synakowski, a former
academic journal editor and member of a choir in Washington, D.C.
“The feelings are just too deeply
intense and words are too inadequate. But music can reach those
places where words alone can’t go.”
Jaweed traces the threshold
choir movement to Northern California, where 13 years ago people
— mostly women, mostly older
than 50 — started coming together
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