by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Nov 25, 2025 | Musings
I know. We work magic. We make your whole day worthwhile. We light up the room. We have you leave rehearsal with a spring in your step. We cause you to forget your troubles and float on clouds of inspiration. We fill your souls with good things. Well, that’s on a...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Nov 18, 2025 | Song Spotlight
By the time you finish reading this post, you will have listened to my piece Jingle Bells Hallelujah. My purpose in writing this blogpost is to flesh out for you some of the background that appears very briefly in the printed score for this piece. You are a curious...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Nov 4, 2025 | Musings
A few months ago Margaret Huyck, a Sounds Good singer and a family friend for 50 years, asked if I would come and lead a sing-along of “golden oldies and protest songs” at a Chicago Hyde Park Village CHPV) gathering; (Margaret is also one of the co-founders...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 28, 2025 | Song Spotlight
Singers regularly come up to me at rehearsal—and I imagine this is true for all of our conductors—and tell us how much they are enjoying the music. Repertoire is not only an important feature of our choirs for older adults. It’s one of the building blocks of any great...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 14, 2025 | Music, Composers & Musicians
Let me be very clear: For most of my life, I have not liked vibrato. It’s even safe to say that from age 9 to almost age 60, I have been afraid of the whole idea of vibrato. I didn’t like using it, I didn’t like listening to it and I was mostly just down on it. Below...
