Choir honours conductor’s 60-year career

Helga Anderson was only 15 years old when she was enlisted to teach hymns to the Sunday school children at her church.

“It just came instinctively. I guess I was meant to do it,” recalls the influential choral conductor, now 80 years old, who has guided thousands of Winnipeggers through countless hours of music-making over a 60-year career.

Anderson, a much-loved fixture of the local music scene, was still a going concern as a conductor until last February.