by Sounds Good | Oct 30, 2025 | Concert
Evanston (a dementia-friendly choir) Saturday, December 63 PM First Presbyterian Church of Evanston1427 Chicago Ave., Evanston, IL Conducted by Hannah Dixon McConnell and Jonathan Miller,accompanied by Amy Wurtz Add to Your Calendar Download a Concert...
by Sounds Good | Oct 30, 2025 | Concert
Edgewater The Admiral at the Lake Monday, December 157:30 pm Add to Your Calendar Tuesday, December 162 pm Add to Your Calendar The Admiral at the Lake, The Gathering Room, 929 W. Foster Ave., Chicago, IL Conducted by Amy Wurtz, accompanied by Mary Clare Barker...
by Sounds Good | Oct 30, 2025 | Concert
Arlington Heights Monday, December 8 7 pm First United Methodist Church of Arlington Heights, 1903 E. Euclid Ave., Arlington, Heights, IL Conducted by Paul Langford, accompanied by Andrew Blendermann Add to Your Calendar Download a Concert...
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 Helen Gagel | Oct 21, 2025 | Singer Profile
As I reviewed the transcript of my conversation with John Mueller, I kept hearing Frank Sinatra singing “That’s Life,” his 1966 hit about life’s ups and downsThe song features this refrain: “I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.” John...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 14, 2025 | Music, Composers & Musicians
Let me be very clear: For most of my life, I have not liked vibrato. It’s even safe to say that from age 9 to almost age 60, I have been afraid of the whole idea of vibrato. I didn’t like using it, I didn’t like listening to it and I was mostly just down on it. Below...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | Sep 18, 2025 | Musings
We stand side by side, we support each other and make each other better, and we know that the whole is so much richer than the individual sum of its parts. Every once in a while, Jon and I take a pause and reflect on what we hope to accomplish with Sounds Good and...
by Helen Gagel | Sep 16, 2025 | Singer Profile
George brings his beautiful bass to every choir he sings with! As Sounds Good Choir added more choirs in different communities throughout Chicagoland, a new type of singer was born—the choir hopper. Choir hoppers are those singers who can’t get enough of Sounds Good...
by Helen Gagel | Aug 18, 2025 | Singer Profile
Jason Allen’s singing career began at the tender age of two while riding in the back seat of his Aunt Bet’s car. “We were headed down south for a funeral, and my aunt started singing. I kept saying, ‘Sing, Aunt Bet, sing’ and soon I began to sing along.” Jason went on...
by Sounds Good | Aug 5, 2025 | Music, Composers & Musicians
Whether you’re a fan of the historical novel or a science-based inquiry into music’s effect on the human brain, a mystery lover or a Beatles fan… there’s something for everyone who loves music on this list of new and classic books of fiction and nonfiction,...
