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...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jul 20, 2025 | Song Spotlight
George Harrison and Eric Clapton Rock history is full of great stories about the ways in which iconic tunes came into being. One of my favorites is the tale of George Harrison’s writing “Here Comes the Sun,” a favorite of our singers in the Summer Rocks 2025 session....
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jul 20, 2025 | Musings
There are stories of pieces of music just coming to the composer or songwriter as if it’s an immediate download. There is a sense of not even thinking, not exerting with effort, but rather of being the receiver of the music. As a composer myself, I’ve had that...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jul 7, 2025 | Music, Composers & Musicians
If you used your powers of visualization to imagine the personality, look, and temperament of the person who wrote all of the music for the 1968 counter-cultural Broadway smash “Hair,” what sort of person would you see in your mind’s eye? Take a moment and try to do...
