by Helen Gagel | Jan 30, 2024 | Singer Profile
If you exchange emails with Alan Hoffstadter, you will see the phrase, “Give Blood… Give Life!” under his signature. To Alan it’s more than a slogan. He devoted his professional life to ensuring a safe and ample supply of donated blood. A “born and bred”...
by Helen Gagel | Jan 23, 2024 | Singer Profile
Rosalie Fruchter is the teacher you wish you’d had in second grade: a teacher who turned square dancing into a math lesson; created an archeology “dig” with broken pottery; and showed enough confidence in her students to let them grade their own papers. In a 40-year...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 1, 2023 | Singer Profile
We had our first Good Memories rehearsal last week. It was a joyous occasion. Several singing volunteers were there today, people who hadn’t sung with us since the spring. This reunion is a happy time with lots of hugs. Also, five new singers joined the choir—two...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Aug 3, 2023 | Musings, Singer Profile
If you’ve ever driven across the country without any means of curating your own playlist, you’ve undoubtedly turned on the radio to stifle the monotony of the wheels-on-asphalt roar. In between the static and proselytizing evangelists of every religious and political...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | Jul 6, 2023 | Singer Profile
In an undergraduate Psychology class, I read a little book by Victor Frankl entitled, Man’s Search for Meaning. It’s one of those books that had an impact on me at the time, and an even greater impact on my work as a clinical psychologist. The author was an Austrian...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jun 30, 2023 | Singer Profile
It’s the beginning of October 2018. 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...
