by a guest blogger. | Jul 14, 2026 | Music, Composers & Musicians
By Rick Sladek with Elizabeth Taggart The criteria for my playlist is simple: the songs have to all be original and all four Beatles had to have contributed to them. The six songs come from different albums and, with the exception of my No. 2 song on the list,...
by Elizabeth Taggart | Jul 14, 2026 | Music, Composers & Musicians
The identity of the “Fifth Beatle” is part of the mythos surrounding the Beatles. Of course, the Fab Four was just that: the ubiquitous Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison—four men whose faces, hair, clothing and accessories, even...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jul 7, 2026 | Music, Composers & Musicians
On August 22, 1969, two days after mixing and editing of the last track on “Abbey Road” — what be be their last time in the studio together — the Beatles showed up at Tittenhurst Park, John’s new house in Ascot, for what turned out to be the last set of...
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 | 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...
