by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Mar 31, 2026 | Music, Composers & Musicians
What Conductors Actually Do With Their Hands In an earlier blogpost, I wrote about the role of the conductor in the life of a choir—the ways in which we are leaders, the practical things that we worry about like repertoire and time management, the emotional...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Feb 11, 2026 | Music, Composers & Musicians
Sandy and I had the exquisite pleasure of going to the Art Institute with some friends on the evening of Groundhog Day, for a performance by the period-instrument baroque chamber ensemble known as Apollo’s Fire. I had heard about this group for many years, since...
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,...
