![]() ![]() "I still meet people who read those stories. "I got so many e-mails after the articles ran," Grüssner tells me from across the kitchen table in her Stockholm apartment. ![]() Times readers gravitated toward the tale of a blond Scandinavian woman teaching gospel music to inner-city kids with tough backgrounds and making them cultural ambassadors for a week among their peers in the insular Åland environment. Times editors liked the story so much that Hartocollis was assigned to follow the choir to Åland (pronounced OH-lahnd), a Baltic Sea island midway between Finland and Sweden where Grüssner grew up and got her start in music.Īs for why the story resonated with so many readers, Grüssner opines, "Usually there's a lot of sad stuff in the papers, but sometimes they pick up on a sunshine story." Hartocollis's first two articles chronicling the choir and its trip were indeed sunny. ![]() 86 - a middle school in a hardscrabble Bronx neighborhood - and organized a trip for these students to her homeland for a week of concerts and cultural exchange, it grabbed the attention of New York Times reporter Anemona Hartocollis. After Grüssner shaped up a great gospel choir with students from P.S. Nine years ago, Finnish-born alumna Johanna Grüssner was the subject of three New York Times stories and the book Seven Days of Possibilities. ![]()
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