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San Francisco Community Music Center Brings People Together Through...
94-year-old nonprofit provides high-quality lessons, programs and concerts to all people regardless of financial means SAN FRANCISCO – May 14, 2015 – San Francisco Community Music Center (CMC) provides...
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Interview with CMC clarinet faculty and Gestaltish Ensemble member, Rachel...
The Gestaltish Ensemble For two nights at the end of June, Community Music Center clarinet faculty member and Chamber Music Coordinator Rachel Condry will bring the Gestaltish Ensemble to CMC. The...
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Book Review “Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others”
Harriet Rafter, CMC student and book reviewer, presents: Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others by Stacy Horn This is a great time to be an adult music learner: I know, because I am...
View ArticleCongratulations to CMC’s 2015-2016 Merit Scholarship Winners!
Each May, juries of faculty and staff listen to scores of students to select full scholarship recipients for the coming year, based on need and merit. The following young people are the recipients for...
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Interview with graduating Merit Scholar Jane Kim
Jane Kim performing at CMC’s All-School Recital on May 31, 2015 Pianist Jane Kim has been studying at CMC since 2008 and has been the recipient of the Ross McKee Memorial Scholarship in Piano for the...
View ArticleA musical beginning in our Capp Street courtyard
By Irene Chagall, CMC Music for Children teacher The special moments at CMC often happen when you least expect them. This little scene made my day last Wednesday. As I was setting up the room for the...
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San Francisco’s Community Music Center (CMC) Awards $50,000 in Merit...
Media Contact: Jimin Lee Landis Communications Inc. jimin@landispr.com (415) 359-2318 Thirty-one students earn full scholarships as part of CMC’s $1.1M in tuition assistance this year Each May, a panel...
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An Interview with Savinnie Ho, Young Musicians Program Violist and Instrument...
Savinnie demonstrating the viola at CMC’s Sunday Open House Savinnie Ho has been participating in CMC’s Young Musicians Program as a violist for the past three years. During this time, she’s...
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Thanks to Randy Craig for 28 years of great teaching at CMC!
Randy Craig Pianist Randy Craig has inspired many a student at CMC over the years with his generous teaching, playful music, and of course his extra dry sense of humor. After 28 years of teaching here,...
View ArticleBook Review “The Late Starters Orchestra” by Ari L. Goldman
By Harriet Rafter, CMC student and book reviewer If you think you can play, you can play. . . . Even if you can’t play, you can play. This short and deeply satisfying book begins with a page of ink...
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CMC faculty and students at Flower Piano event in the SF Botanical Gardens
Many people in the CMC community were drawn to the San Francisco Botanical Gardens to play one of the twelve pianos that Sunset Piano planted there in July. The event, entitled “Flower Piano,” was a...
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CMC student makes the cover of the Datebook section!
95 year-old CMC student Remo del Tredeci picked up the violin at age 76 and hasn’t stopped playing since! He also happened to teach himself to build violins and has donated about 100 of them over the...
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CMC Introduces Quarterly CMC Sundays; Free Classes and Jam Sessions Begin...
Just in time for back-to-school, 94-year-old nonprofit offers opportunities to explore new music classes, participate in jam sessions and visit its popular instrument petting zoo SAN FRANCISCO (Aug....
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Seeking actors and singers for La Posarela 2015!
Español abajo Get valuable acting and singing experience and be a part a beautiful community tradition – audition for Community Music Center’s La Posarela! Since 2007, La Posarela has been one of the...
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Announcing the 2015-2016 Concert with Conversation Series
This intimate, one-hour recital and discussion series in partnership with San Francisco Performances offers the community a unique opportunity to enjoy performances and Q&A with...
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Join a musical community in the Adult Certificate Program!
By Paul Dab, ACP Coordinator For all of us at CMC, music is about joy, creativity, community, and the discipline that requires an active mind. The Adult Certificate Program gives students structure to...
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CMC Selected as Grantee of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Arts Innovation and...
Community Music Center is honored to be a grantee recipient of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Arts Innovation and Management (AIM) program. Through the two-year initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies is...
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CMC Staff Profile – Meet Elenka Refsell
Carrying on the tradition of staff members that are highly skilled individuals as well as talented musicians, we welcome Elenka Refsell to CMC. Joining the Development Department this past August as a...
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Mission’s free Young Musicians Program preserves Latino culture
Published October 8, 2015 By Hillary Smith El Tecolote Throughout the spring of 2015, students enrolled in the Journalism 575 Community Media class at San Francisco State University worked on a...
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The music education and technology connection
Software engineer and CMC student, John Boggs, makes the music education and technology connection in an op-ed article published in the San Francisco Chronicle today. A bit of his compelling story:...
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