by Helen Gagel | Feb 5, 2024 | Singer Profile
Elementary teacher, mother of three, crafter, good friend, and an alto and volunteer with SGC’s Dementia-friendly Evanston Choir Sounds Good Choir “has been a salvation for me,” says Suzanne Cohen. “It is such a positive experience for me to be able to sing...
by Helen Gagel | Jan 30, 2024 | Singer Profile
If you exchange emails with Alan Hoffstadter, you will see the phrase, “Give Blood… Give Life!” under his signature. To Alan it’s more than a slogan. He devoted his professional life to ensuring a safe and ample supply of donated blood. A “born and bred”...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jan 30, 2024 | Song Spotlight
Our House Graham Nash, arr. Ed Lojeski Graham Nash was the only English member of the iconic supergroup known as Crosby, Stills and Nash. The group rose in 1968 like a phoenix from the ashes of other groups: Crosby had been asked to leave The Byrds a year earlier;...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | Jan 23, 2024 | Research
Leading up to our holiday concerts in December, the question I heard most often (aside from, “What’s our call time for the concert warm-up?”) is “What’s happening with the research project… aren’t you almost finished with it?” That’s actually not an easy question to...
by Helen Gagel | Jan 23, 2024 | Singer Profile
Rosalie Fruchter is the teacher you wish you’d had in second grade: a teacher who turned square dancing into a math lesson; created an archeology “dig” with broken pottery; and showed enough confidence in her students to let them grade their own papers. In a 40-year...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jan 18, 2024 | Musings
On my ninth birthday, my family’s moving van arrived on the South Side of Chicago. For a nerdy white kid from the Boston suburbs—meaning me—starting from scratch in the relative rough-and-tumble of Chicago’s public schools was a big change. And with one exception, up...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Dec 28, 2023 | Musings
It’s humbling when a professional singer and choral director ends up down for the count, which is exactly what happened when yours truly tested positive for Covid. Thus began a period of self-isolation, the last thing I expected to be doing—or more like not doing—in...
by Sounds Good | Dec 7, 2023 | Concert
Gold Coast Conductor Jonathan Miller accompanied by Amy Wurtz Concert – Thursday, December 21 2 PM Concert Fourth Presbyterian Church (Main Sanctuary)126 E. Chestnut St., Chicago, IL 60611 Add to Your Calendar Download a Concert...
by Sounds Good | Dec 7, 2023 | Concert
Hinsdale Conductors Jonathan Miller & Daniel Segner Concert – Thursday, December 14th 7 PM Concert The Community House415 W 8th Street, Hinsdale Add to Your Calendar Download a Concert...
by Sounds Good | Dec 7, 2023 | Concert
Arlington Heights Conductor Paul Langford, accompanied by Marianne Kim Concert – Wednesday, December 13, 2023 4:30 PM Concert First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights302 N. Dunton Ave., Arlington Heights, IL 60004 Add to Your Calendar Download a Concert...
