By Karlene Ponti
WALLA WALLA, WA — Photos of smiling students and stacks of choir sheet music cram Norb Rossi’s tiny office at Walla Walla High School while music and singing from an adjacent classroom drift in.
It’s pretty much what one would expect to see and hear in the school’s longtime, popular and very successful choir director’s milieu. But to Rossi, he’s as much a student as he is an instructor. “I’ve learned a lot,” he said. “The students have been my teachers.” And that kind of synergy has been a part of his journey since he started singing in his eighth-grade choir. “It was the music,” he said. “Hearing a choir produce an amazing sound and knowing you are part of it brings a feeling of completion that you don’t get in everyday life.”
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