by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jun 15, 2023 | Musings, Singer Profile
Chapter 1: The Finger Rustle Last December, for some reason I can’t recall now, I rustled my fingers together with my right hand, near my right ear. I heard what I expected to hear: a high-pitched rustling sound, sort of like someone shushing me or saying...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | May 18, 2023 | Musings
This is one of my two favorite t-shirts (the other has a dog and a cat sitting side-by side, under the word “Peace”). When I wear it, it gets its share of smiles and even the occasional comment – usually something like “Yeah, random acts of kindness!”. But no one...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | Apr 19, 2023 | Musings
I recently flew up to Minnesota for a long girlfriend weekend with my best friend, Kate. My family and friends joke that her name is actually My Best Friend Kate because I never refer to her any other way. MBF Kate and I have been friends since graduate school,...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Apr 6, 2020 | Musings
Almost every afternoon, sometime before sunset, I have the privilege of taking our two English Cocker Spaniels to the park. They are littermates (brothers, I call them) named Higgins and Moseley, 6 years old. Taking them to the park is one of the favorite things in my...
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...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jun 6, 2017 | Musings
As Jonathan and I prepare to begin our summer sessions of Encore “Rocks”, and look ahead at both the challenge and excitement of creating the musical experience, it’s easy to get caught up in the details: do we need to make a seating chart, now that...
