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Creating a Choir: It Takes a Village… and a CAB!

Creating a Choir: It Takes a Village… and a CAB!

by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 26, 2026 | Musings

In the first of a three-part series, co-founders Jonathan Miller and Sandy Siegel Miller shared their story of developing the vision to create new Good Memories choirs, including a location on the South Side. In Part II, they tell you more about how the South Side...
Song Spotlight – Beautiful and tragic: A Huron Carol

Song Spotlight – Beautiful and tragic: A Huron Carol

by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Sep 29, 2026 | Song Spotlight

How can an almost unbelievably beautiful tune also be almost unbelievably complicated? I was talking the other day with our recently arrived Sounds Good Artistic Director, Chris Cherry. We were sitting down together on the first occasion that we had carved out in our...
What Did Each of the Beatles Bring to the Party?

What Did Each of the Beatles Bring to the Party?

by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jul 21, 2026 | Music, Composers & Musicians

Elizabeth posed a question to me recently that I haven’t been able to let go of: what did each of the four Beatles bring to the phenomenon we call The Beatles? Not “who was the best,” but a deeper question: what particular ingredient did each of them supply, such that...
Golden Slumbers – A Sad, Uplifting Tune for the Ages

Golden Slumbers – A Sad, Uplifting Tune for the Ages

by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jul 7, 2026 | Music, Composers & Musicians

On August 22, 1969, two days after mixing and editing of the last track on “Abbey Road” — what be be their last time in the studio together — the Beatles showed up at Tittenhurst Park, John’s new house in Ascot, for what turned out to be the last set of...
When I’m Almost 64 – I’m Really An Older Adult Now

When I’m Almost 64 – I’m Really An Older Adult Now

by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jun 5, 2026 | Musings

It was bound to happen. I just didn’t think it would be today. Or this year. Or this decade. This morning, at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, as Sandy and I were going through security on the way home from vacation, the friendly and patient young woman from...
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  • The Road, The Song, The Singer & The Green Book
  • Get Your Kicks On: Road-Tripping with Sounds Good Choir
  • Creating a Choir: It Takes a Village… and a CAB!
  • Music Matters Because the People Making It Matter
  • Q & A with Dr. Treasyri Williams Wood: Brain-Health Inequity on Chicago’s South Side

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