by Sandy Siegel Miller | Oct 7, 2024 | Musings
I’m not a person for whom the word “serendipity” yields feelings of excitement and curiosity. I’m a planner: I like to know what’s going to happen next and hold as dear the illusion that I know how things are going to turn out. So, one of the reluctantly learned...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 1, 2024 | Musings
I turned 62 a few weeks ago. The night before my birthday, while walking the dog, I realized that it has been 45 years—73 percent of my life—since Max Janowski of blessed memory took a chance on a 17-year-old kid and hired me for the bass section at the Central...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | Aug 27, 2024 | Musings
Although there’s no confusion, in my mind at least, about the importance of forgiveness, there seems to be quite a bit of confusion about the national acknowledgement of that. My internet search found a “National Forgiveness Week” in June, a “National Forgiveness Day”...
by Elizabeth Taggart | Apr 3, 2024 | Musings
What did the drummer name her twin daughters?Anna 1, Anna 2. What’s small and red and has a rough voice?A hoarse radish! Whether these jokes made you groan or giggle, undoubtedly a smile crossed your face as the meaning became clear. Research shows that you...
by Sounds Good | Apr 2, 2024 | Musings
We asked for your best (worst?), most groan-inducing, belly-laugh provoking musical jokes and puns… and you sent us plenty. Some of you gifted us with a list of your favorites, while others shared entire websites devoted to music-related humor; one person even...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Apr 2, 2024 | Musings
There is a wonderful world of funny things that happen during rehearsal. Most of the time, they are just a natural outgrowth of the camaraderie and relationship that any conductor has with singers. Recently, for example, at a Gold Coast rehearsal that I led, we were...
