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 Sounds Good | Aug 5, 2025 | Music, Composers & Musicians
Whether you’re a fan of the historical novel or a science-based inquiry into music’s effect on the human brain, a mystery lover or a Beatles fan… there’s something for everyone who loves music on this list of new and classic books of fiction and nonfiction,...
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 Elizabeth Taggart | Mar 22, 2024 | Music, Composers & Musicians
No matter where Angelique Kidjo performs (Royal Albert Hall, the Telluride Jazz Festival, the Syndey Opera House), what she performs (R&B, funk, Afrobeat, traditional West African music), or with whom she performs (Carlos Santana, Ibrahim Maalouff, Alicia Keys,...
by Sounds Good | Mar 21, 2024 | Music, Composers & Musicians
Even though he is a conductor, artistic director, and co-founder of multiple choirs, Jonathan Miller isn’t at all biased when he suggests vocalizing with others is a fun and effective way to warm up your voice. Below, he shares more ways to exercise your vocal...
by Elizabeth Taggart | Feb 6, 2024 | Music, Composers & Musicians
A detail from The Meeting of St. Ursula and the Prince Etherius. Sitting at the top corner of the painting, this detail shows six wind players of Black ancestry performing on the balcony. From the multi-panel St. Auta Altarpiece, early 16th c., housed in Lisbon’s...
