by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Mar 24, 2018 | Singer Profile
This blogpost is from Sandy Siegel Miller, our amazing uber-volunteer and #1 cheerleader, with photos by Hyde Park Chorus Master Joy Rosner: I arrived at Thursday’s Snowbird Day with the first verse of Psalm 100 on my mind: “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Dec 1, 2017 | Singer Profile
by Sandy Siegel Miller, Encore Illinois Board President This isn’t an unusual scene at Encore rehearsals -what’s unusual is that I took a photo. The Hinsdale rehearsal ended about 15 minutes before this photo was taken and around half of the choir had already headed...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Sep 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Encore has to buy things, especially printed things. If you’re like me, you like knowing where you can get a great price on something. We have a great vendor in Virginia for much of our sheet music, East Coast Music; they are very flexible and responsive. For routine...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jul 13, 2017 | Singer Profile
We are pleased and excited that three of our singers were featured in this new article on the Chorus America website about the experiences that older adults have singing in a choir. The article features Helen Gagel from the Evanston Encore Chorale, Jim Lavin from the...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jul 13, 2017 | Musings
Sheila Haennicke is a social worker in the Alzheimer’s field and a college classmate of our artistic director, Jonathan Miller. Sheila’s mother has Alzheimer’s disease, and her dad, Bob Black, sings with Encore in Arlington Heights. Sheila wrote this...
