Quite often, we are called the “World’s Oldest Youth Choir,” referring to the joy and vitality we bring to audiences as music continues to excite, nourish and inspire us.  To share our passion, Sing for Life, is designed to instill some for these feelings into today’s young singers, demonstrating by example that our lives have been enriched because we continue to produce music.

In June 2005, we held our first public Sing for Life concert, sharing the stage and the applause with 100 choral students from the Tahoma School District.  In preparation for the joint concert, Boeing Choir director Michael Kysar attended rehearsals with the students and gave lively, thought-provoking classroom sessions designed to help the students gain perspective and insight about life’s road ahead.

Kysar, Boeing Employees Choir music conductor since 1982, is founder of Sing for Life, a concept that took root early in his career when he taught music to intermediate school students.

With evaluations from the young singers who participated in the 2005 joint concert, we hope Sing for Life will evolve and our efforts will contribute to supporting the teachers of music and bring more music to the world.

2005 Concert A Tribute to Ruth Reh

The 2005 Sing for Life concert was dedicated to Ruth Reh, a retired Boeing librarian and alto in the choir, who died suddenly in the spring of 2004.  Ruth instilled the Sing for Life philosophy within her own family.  Aware of the importance of our work and how much Ruth loved being part of it, the family forwarded memorials to us.  We are using the donation made in her behalf to launch Sing for Life.