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Old Dog, New Tricks
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...
Connecting Our Hearts
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...
Our Choirs in the News
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...
Your Brain on Music, Part 1
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...
Choral Nerd Moment: The Consonant Before the Vowel
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 friends with your...
Picking Music, Part 2: The Nitty-Gritty of Repertoire Selection
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...