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...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jun 6, 2025 | Musings
Let me be clear. I mostly love my Apple Watch. It came to me as a complete surprise gift. Back in May, Sandy and I finally took the step of getting rid of both cable and our landline, because we finally got tired enough (of paying Comcast through the nose) to do...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | May 30, 2025 | Song Spotlight
In 1963, the acclaimed producer Russ Titelman went to visit Brian Wilson at his office in a bank building on the southeast corner of Sunset and Vine in Los Angeles. Wilson told Titelman that he was working on a song called “Run, Run, Run.” That song eventually morphed...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Mar 11, 2025 | Song Spotlight
Did you ever see the musical “Sweet Charity” from 1966, with Gwen Verdon in the starring role and choreography by her husband, Bob Fosse? The show was written with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and book by Neil Simon. The musical features the songs...
