by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Apr 28, 2026 | Musings
On a Tuesday morning, April 12, 2016, about 35 eager and enthusiastic singers showed up in the crystal ballroom of the Merion in downtown Evanston for something that none of us had ever done before: a non-auditioned daytime choir designed for older adults, with...
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 Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Mar 31, 2026 | Music, Composers & Musicians
What Conductors Actually Do With Their Hands In an earlier blogpost, I wrote about the role of the conductor in the life of a choir—the ways in which we are leaders, the practical things that we worry about like repertoire and time management, the emotional...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Feb 11, 2026 | Music, Composers & Musicians
Sandy and I had the exquisite pleasure of going to the Art Institute with some friends on the evening of Groundhog Day, for a performance by the period-instrument baroque chamber ensemble known as Apollo’s Fire. I had heard about this group for many years, since...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jan 13, 2026 | Musings
Sometimes, when you get together with an old friend, it’s pure joy. You find yourself easing right into conversation, as if you never missed a step, even if it’s been 40 years since you sat down together. This happened to me in 2021, when I went to the Big Apple to...
