![]() “Once you learn your music by memory, looking at a piece of paper is a distraction.” She said not using sheet music when performing is a key component to singing with the group. They learn their music and you enjoy singing because your harmony and everything blends well. “The people with Musichorale are very professional. “Singing with this group is wonderful,” she shared, adding that the camaraderie is important. ![]() Art Silhan befriended the young man and talked him into joining Musichorale. One brother was his roommate and her other brother lived across the hall. Her husband, Keith Gansel, first sang with the choir in December 1972, having met his future wife’s family while he was in college. I think a lot of people who didn’t have much else in their life made terrific friends and had social activities and a lot of laughing.” “I think Musichorale touched a lot of people. She described the group as an “extended family” for its members because of how much time they spent signing together. “I have to be extremely grateful to my time in Musichorale because it made me so much better at what I do now,” she said. Gansel credits the group for her work as an organist and accompanist. She continued in that role for 25 years until niece Silhan-Koehler was ready to take over, although she still acted as backup. “Musichorale, since I was born, was part of my life,” she shared, adding that she started accompanying the adult choir when she was 16. Gansel began singing with the group her father and mother founded when she was 8 years old, and she helped with administrative tasks such as mailings. I look back, and she did that with little kids around.” It’s not just the accompaniment, it’s the words too. “When I think of mom’s music, one of her major cantatas was done in 1957. “She wrote her music specifically for Musichorale, and she would not let it be published,” Gansel said. Over time, Musichorale performed all of those cantatas. ![]() In addition, Arthur Silhan’s daughter, Cindy Gansel, will play a piano medley of cantata excerpts from the full-length cantatas her mother, Phyllis Silhan, composed. If you believe that any review contained on our site infringes upon your copyright, please email us.Jeffrey Silhan, who directed Musichorale for 37 years, leads the group in a recent rehearsal at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Burbank as they prepare for a holiday concert Dec. All submitted reviews become the licensed property of Sheet Music Plus and are subject to all laws pertaining thereto.If you have any suggestions or comments on the guidelines, please email us. ![]()
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