The choir that saved my life
LA TimesSue Fink started L.A.’s Angel City Chorale 30 years ago, in the back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. Her father — and here Sue waves her hand — “he wasn’t really on this planet.” Sue studied music at UCLA and later toured as a singer-songwriter. Today her legacy lives on through music A mellifluous and harmonized version of “The Hokey Pokey” filled a basement room in Koreatown’s Immanuel Presbyterian Church as more than 100 members of the Angel City Chorale sang the children’s tune in its entirety — from “right foot” to “whole self” — before their recent Saturday-evening performance. My husband would ask me, ‘What do you want to do now?’ I said, I have no idea.” She adds: “The chorale helped me gain back a sense of self-confidence that — somewhere along the way — I lost.” For Alicia Easley, Angel City promised something else — a welcome distraction from her intense, emotionally draining work. I shared my therapist’s missive with Andrea — “Seek joy” — and he smiled: “Here we are.” The Joy Singers and the Angel City Chorale perform together at La Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, Italy.
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