Adele Borouchoff

It is with deep sadness that we share the news with you of the passing of Adele M. Borouchoff (nee Milhendler), age 92, on May 18, 2021.  Adele was the dear mother of Jeremy (Julie) Borouchoff and Rachel Raven Borouchoff; loving grandmother of Brianna Borouchoff and Avi Borouchoff, and dear significant other of Marcus Bullock.  Dear daughter of the late Jacob & Rose (Simons) Milhendler.  Devoted sister of Betty, Bernard and Charles Milhendler. Survived by countless students, colleagues, cousins, relations, and friends.

Adele studied voice and piano at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, the Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, and Black Mountain College.  She studied in France and Italy under a Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians Award.  Her teachers included Erwin Bodky of Brandeis University, Pierre Bernac and Nadia Boulanger in Paris, Emma Zador, Jennie Tourel, and Elaine Noth.  Adele was a lifelong learner who could speak and sing in Latin, Italian, French, German, Yiddish, and Hebrew and was a voracious reader.  In her later years she studied Greek.

Adele’s many performances include those with WEVD radio in New York, the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA, the St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony.  She appeared on concert stage, in operas and oratorios, and at many synagogues and community centers.  In Milwaukee she performed with the Florentine Opera, the Skylight Theatre, Music Under the Stars, the Jewish Community Center, the Waukesha Symphony, the Civic Music Association, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Clavis Theatre.  Adele was a longtime member of the MacDowell Club of Milwaukee, with which she last performed in October 2013.

Adele taught voice at UW-Milwaukee, the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and privately for many years.

Memorial contributions for Adele Borouchoff can be made to the UWM Foundation/Yolanda Marculescu-Stern Fund (7389000) or the Autism Society of Southeastern Wisconsin for The SuperStars Camp.