Alice Parker — Singing Is the Most Companionable of Arts
Alice Parker — Singing Is the Most Companionable of Arts  
Podcast: On Being with Krista Tippett
Published On: Wed Dec 07 2016
Description: 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.