by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Apr 14, 2020 | Singer Profile
Now that it’s up on YouTube, I thought it might be helpful to tell the story of my latest song. I don’t know about you, but it has been a challenge for me to find inner stillness and repose lately. I find myself getting more physically tired than usual;...
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 | Mar 26, 2020 | Singer Profile
by Sandy Siegel Miller I write this morning, our 4th day of COVID-19 shelter in place, and in the background, Jonathan is on our first-ever Evanston Sounds Good Choir “Zoom coffee hour”! There’s a lively conversation among the 25 participants, including their...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Mar 18, 2020 | Singer Profile
by Sandy Siegel Miller Like many of you, in the past week or so, my days have been dominated, in one way or another, by the coronavirus. My Sounds Good/Good Memories work life changed significantly when we made the difficult decision to cancel rehearsals and focus on...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Aug 8, 2019 | Singer Profile
The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago has a magazine called Thrive. The most recent issue featured a superbly written article by Lu Stanton León about our beloved Sandy Siegel Miller, program director of the Good Memories Choir. In addition to featuring Sandy, the article...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Feb 1, 2019 | Singer Profile
If you’ve been in rehearsal with me, you know that I’m always trying to pass along to you the cool stuff I’m learning. These might be things about vocal technique that I’m learning from my voice teacher. I might be sharing with you some things about style and...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 26, 2018 | Singer Profile
As most of you know, I get really excited when something about choral singing becomes clearer to me and I think it’s going to be useful in rehearsals. (Some of you may be happy that I finally have something new to talk about that isn’t “make best...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 19, 2018 | Singer Profile
So many of you have commented on last week’s blog that I thought I’d follow it up with some real-world examples. I’ll take you into the process we’re presently in, to pick music for the spring 2019 session. This is about as current as it gets. Sandy said the other...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 13, 2018 | Singer Profile
It is gratifying when singers come up to me spontaneously after rehearsal with bright eyes and say, “I love this music!” This happened many times in past Encore sessions, and it’s happening again now. This is true whether I picked the music on my own (as for the first...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 5, 2018 | Singer Profile
It’s the beginning of October. We’ve now held five rehearsals of the Good Memories choir. As many of you know, Good Memories is our new choral program for people with early-stage memory loss and their care partners, singing together in a choir along with a remarkable...
