Linda Anderson was a longtime choral music educator in the Santa Monica school system and later served as chair of the music department at Samohi. She began teaching by at least 1970 and became a prominent figure in Southern California choral education, serving on national American Choral Directors Association committees and, by 1983, representing the organization’s Western Division on its national board. At Samohi, Anderson led the choral program through much of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, helping maintain the school’s longstanding tradition of choir, madrigal and district-wide performances such as Stairway of the Stars.

Among Anderson’s students was future international opera soprano Julianna Di Giacomo, Samohi Class of 1992. Anderson also taught celebrated baritone Jubilant Sykes, helping guide him through his changing voice and toward classical singing. Her career spanned multiple levels of the district’s music program and helped shape generations of Santa Monica singers before the later era of Samohi choral directors.

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