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Shireinu - the Jewish Community Chorale of Greater Kansas City

Shireinu at a gig in 2005. Our second director, Elana Goldberg, is at left, and our accompanist, Sabin Levi, is at right.

Back in 2000, Larry Poisner called me and asked if I would join a Jewish community choir if it existed. I said... probably. Well, I did it and have been in it since the inception. I was on the board for four years, and I don't miss being on it now. It's fun.

Very early Shireinu. As you see, I'm the only original member still left. I'm seated next to our original director, Marie Lerner-Sexton.

During the past three years, I've been having a lot of fun, as well as learning a whole bunch, in arranging pieces for Shireinu. There is not a whole lot of Jewish choral music readily available without networking and knowing the people who write it, so a lot of what I've done is to simply fill a need.