by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Apr 14, 2026 | Song Spotlight
Writing about this song is great fun. This song has a history with Sounds Good Choir, which will be performing it at our tenth anniversary concerts in May 2026. I’m going to tell you three big things about “Fly Me to the Moon”: how and when it was first written and...
by Helen Gagel | Jan 7, 2026 | Song Spotlight
2026 marks the tenth year that Sounds Good Choir has been enhancing the wellbeing of older adults through the joy of singing. Throughout the coming year, we hope to recognize and celebrate many moments and milestones from this decade of harmony-building for older...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Nov 18, 2025 | Song Spotlight
By the time you finish reading this post, you will have listened to my piece Jingle Bells Hallelujah. My purpose in writing this blogpost is to flesh out for you some of the background that appears very briefly in the printed score for this piece. You are a curious...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 28, 2025 | Song Spotlight
Singers regularly come up to me at rehearsal—and I imagine this is true for all of our conductors—and tell us how much they are enjoying the music. Repertoire is not only an important feature of our choirs for older adults. It’s one of the building blocks of any great...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jul 20, 2025 | Song Spotlight
George Harrison and Eric Clapton Rock history is full of great stories about the ways in which iconic tunes came into being. One of my favorites is the tale of George Harrison’s writing “Here Comes the Sun,” a favorite of our singers in the Summer Rocks 2025 session....
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...
